According to a local report, a high school student in Baltimore failed all three classes in just over three years, achieving nearly the top half of his class with a 0.13 GPA.
Tiffany France, the mother of the failing, thought her son would receive his diploma from the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in June. However, she was surprised to discover that he was being sent back to ninth grade to start over.
“He’s stressed, and so am I. I told him I was probably going to start crying,” France told FOX 45 Baltimore.
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France expressed frustration over the school and asked why her son would have to complete three more years of high school after ‘the school let him down’.
France’s son failed 22 classes and was 272 days late or absent over his first three years of high school. Only one teacher requested a parent-teacher conference, but France said that did not happen. Despite this, her son still ranks 62nd in his class out of 120 students.
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“The school failed in their job. They failed. They failed. That’s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He did not deserve it,” she said.
FOX 45 found hundreds of students attending classes at the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in western Baltimore.
A Baltimore City student passes three classes in four years and achieves the top half of the class with a 0.13 GPA (WBFF)
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France says she has three children and works three jobs, and only realized in February that her son was failing. Although he did not fail classes, the school continued to promote him; for example, after failing Spanish I and Algebra I, the school still allowed him to take Spanish II and Algebra II.
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“I just assume that if you pass, that you have the right things to go to the next degree and the right degrees, you have the right credits,” France told FOX 45.
She continued: “I feel like they never gave my son a chance, as if there was a problem with him not progressing or not progressing, that they only had to contact me three years ago.”
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Augusta Fells did not immediately respond to a request from Fox News. A Baltimore City Public Schools administrator who spoke on condition of anonymity told FOX 45’s investigation team that the high school had let France’s son down.
A Baltimore city student passes three classes in four years and comes close to the top half of the class with a 0.13 GPA (WBFF)
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“I’m getting angry. There’s nothing but frustration. We’re seeing on the news the crime going on, the murders, the shootings, we know there’s a high level of poverty in Baltimore,” the administrator said. “Things like this contribute to that. His transcript is not unusual for me. I have seen many transcripts, many reports, like this student.”
The school district sent a two-page statement to FOX 45 stating that students received letters by mail informing them of their academic status during the summer and that parents receive automatic voicemails when students miss class. The district also said it was doing home visits to check in students, but France said no one had checked in with her son.
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“City Schools is reviewing actions that had an impact on student outcomes at the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts prior to the 2020-2021 school year,” the statement said.
France has taken her son out of school and he is currently enrolled in an accelerated program that could allow him to study in 2023.