Roy Exum: Educational Agony
Roy Exum
This is the fourth year that Tiffany France has sent her son – let’s call him Joe – to Augusta Fells High School in urban Baltimore, where Joe ranks in the top half of the senior class. He’s No. 52 in a class of 120. So, imagine Tiffany’s horror when she learned that, no, he will not be graduating this spring. Nor in any spring in the foreseeable future. In a scene being played out in public schools all over the nation, just now Tiffany has been told Joe has failed 22 of 25 classes and has a 0.13 grade-point average. Oh, and he has either been tardy or missed 272 school days.