A Baltimore high school student failed all classes except three in four years and almost graduated near the top half of his class with a GPA of 0.13, according to a local report.
Tiffany France, the failing student’s mother, thought her son would receive his diploma from the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in June. However, she was surprised to find that he is being sent back to ninth grade to start over.
“He’s stressed, and so am I. I told him I’m probably going to start crying,” France told FOX 45 Baltimore.
Tiffany France (WBFF)
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France expressed frustration with the school, asking why her son would have to complete three more years of high school after “the school failed him”.
France’s son missed 22 classes and was either 272 days late or missing in the first three years of high school. Only one teacher requested a parent-teacher meeting, but France said it did not. Despite this, his son still ranked 62nd in his class, out of a total of 120 students.
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“The school failed in its work. They failed. They failed, that’s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn’t deserve it,” she said.
FOX 45 found that hundreds of students are failing classes at the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in western Baltimore.
A Baltimore city student passes three classes in four years and ranks close to the top half of the class with a GPA of 0.13 (WBFF)
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France says it has three children and works three jobs, and only realized that its son was going bankrupt in February. Although he was failing classes, the school continued to promote him; after failing Spanish I and Algebra I, for example, the school still allowed him to do Spanish II and Algebra II.
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“I’m just assuming that if you’re passing, you have the right things to go to the next series and the right grades, you have the right credits,” France told FOX 45.
She continued: “I feel that they never gave my son an opportunity, as if there was a problem with him, not moving forward or not progressing, that they should have contacted me first, three years ago.”
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Augusta Fells did not immediately respond to a Fox News inquiry. An administrator at the Baltimore City Public Schools, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the FOX 45 investigative team that the school was disapproved by France’s son.
A Baltimore city student passes three classes in four years and ranks close to the top half of the class with a GPA of 0.13 (WBFF)
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“I get angry. There is nothing but frustration. We see on the news the crime that occurs, the murders, the shootings, we know that there are high levels of poverty in Baltimore,” said the administrator. “Things like that are adding to that. Your transcript is not uncommon for me. I saw a lot of transcripts, a lot of newsletters, like this particular student.”
The school district sent a two-page statement to FOX 45 saying that students received letters in the mail informing them of their academic status during the summer and that parents receive automatic voice messages when students are absent from classes. The district also said it carried out home visits to check on students, but France said that no one had checked on his son.
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“The Municipal Schools are reviewing the actions that impacted the students’ results at the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts before the academic year 2020-2021”, says the statement.
France took his son out of school, and he is currently enrolled in an accelerated program that could allow him to graduate in 2023.