Graduation at Texas’ Marlin High School has been postponed after only five of 33 seniors met attendance and academic requirements. KCEN’s Nicole Shearin reports.
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This mess is counselor’s FAULT and poor leadership by principal. 19 students he couldn’t guide to success within their entire senior year? What a true pity. 38 seniors… what was he doing? He can now make them successful in a few weeks? He needs to reconsider his career path and this school board needs to …..reconsider ALL of their appointments. Very sad and very derelectic.
It’s more than the tap water. It’s all those 💉kicking in. You should see the list they inject when you are born.
Right because illnesses can only cause mild cases of death
There’s always summer school 😂
Dang…. that’s crazy. Keep voting Democrat…
It’s almost like schools were locked down for a couple of years and the kids were effected.
He’s finished, its just postponing the ceremony, its not that serious shheeesh. I thought the most important part was finishing school and actually becoming a productive citizen in society?
Well it’s a republican state that’s the first problem
92 percent minorities in Marlin High School. Are you some sort of racist?
Lol……that is a unhealthy mentality!!!! Why didnt you tell me????? Give me a break
We really are circling the drain as a country. I can’t believe the rest of the world can’t figure this out about to collapse of the USA. These problems don’t exist anywhere else. The Trade Towers are about to come down again.
So only 1 week notice, wow how wrong on the administrators. They failed these students not the students & parents. The administration is there for a reason and it’s obvious some didn’t do their diligent jobs. But only when the media is notified, now the administrators are “working to support”
😂 thats a lot of morons!
Your tax dollars wasted… smh
No family accountability!!!
Who is surprised. For at least 20 years the United States k-12 education has been going deeper and deeper into the toilet. At least 50% (my opinion) of teachers are useless. They are political activists. The kids are not taught about science, history, math and english. These kids are stupid. They cannot read or write. Teachers give them passing grades. This is what happens when you put liberals in charge. America used to rank number one in the world in education. Now you would be hard pressed to see America in the top 10 of any subject that is taught.
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NOW WE KNOW WHERE NBC GETS THE LOSERS THAT LIE FOR THEM 🤡🤡🤡
“How do you let me do that?”
When do teenagers become responsible adults and manage their own lives?
Why should those who do what they are required too do get punished because of those who failed.
There are schools that graduate 🎓 low numbers if 1 student reaches the qualifications to graduate the ceremony should go on to honor their achievements
They failed to realize or did you just not pay attention? They give you ample warnings if they think you are at risk of not graduating, waaaaaaay a head of time.
Sheeiiitttt
Of course. Your a minority based high school in Govenor Abbots Texas. Just be glad your school didn’t get shot up. Or like Gov. Abbot would say .. less minorities to vote.
And then there is always the race card! SMH
@Joeg 911 it’s not a card. Because if the white race hadn’t made blacks their slaves for over 200 years and stole land from the Native Americans then tried to exterminate them then maybe race wouldn’t be an issue or a card. Just so you know the white race is now the minority as of April 2022. I have contacted several news companies to run a segment but they won’t over concerns of violence. Go ahead and contact the Census Bureau to find out.
You can take a test and get a online high school diploma. My friend did it to get into the military. She payed like $200 took the test failed. They give you the answers to the one you failed and let you retake it. And it’s as valid as any other high school diploma.
Besides the military I’ve never had any employer ever ask me for a copy of my high school diploma.
My ex girlfriend never graduated high school and she got into nursing school without one. They never asked to see a copy of it and they didn’t verify. It’s not something most places ever check.
When you put on job applications for 99% of jobs you are a high school graduate they don’t care or gcheck. It’s better to put it down that you are then you aren’t.
Red state failing again, no suprise
Where was the part about racism.. very disappointed unusual for a N.B.C story
Wow, this is sad!
Four years of high school, these 33 students hadn’t taken their high school exam 2 twice per year to see where they are at. It’s laughable cause these group that failed to graduate is either cutting classes or taking the day off on an important school curriculum. You should be held responsible and accountability for your actions if you do not graduate at the end of your senior year cause you didn’t show up or failed to pass the exam.
Parents need to start being parents! Communication is key, if you lay back and think that others are going to do your job, you are wrong! All my children graduated on time, because I was in communication with the schools they attended on the weekly! No more excuses!
As the progressives take over the school system. More to come
This happen to my son this week. And we are in San Antonio Texas. Who is holding these schools accountable? Not the school board Not the board of education I will tell u that much. School is all a big business all about how much money they can get and save. All goes to the administration, schools and teachers see very little of it. Is a shame that foreign schools “no country mentioned” are beating us at our own game.
So we gonna blame the parents and teachers? Or just play the race card?
Looks rather dark.. what could go wrong 🤔
Greg Abbot’s problem and his republican cohorts.
Let’s stop indoctrinating and start educating again.
Zelensky is always available.
It is so SAD that MANY of these young ppl are even “graduating” and CAN NOT EVEN READ @6th grade level; and to be able to COMPREHEND WHAT THEY HAVE READ/READING is extremely POOR also.
5 out of 38. Incredible. Lack of proper parenting.
That mom and the kid both used “feelings” as their excuse! Soft times create soft people! They have to earn it to learn it!!!
The parent, Jeff sees that child as a check every month other than that it does not matter
USA USA EH?
Should have read the syllabus 🤦♂️
If ALL the kids are failing there is something wrong with the school.
It’s Texas!
They should of known they weren’t going to graduate.
How do you cancel a commencement ceremony because of a lack of graduates ?!?
That would mean that NOBODY passed !! That means THE LOCAL SCOOL BOARD ISN’T DOING THEIR JOB – PEROID !!! regardless of circumstances, conditions and situations.
Y’all need to fire EACH AND EVERYONE of those miserable people on the schoolboard !!
The country is getting dumber every year. The kids these days are going to be I’ll prepared for life’s struggles
Don’t postpone it. Let those who meet qualifications to graduate do it and say “Better luck next year” to the students who lack the simple skill to send an email to counselors to double check to make sure they’re on track for graduation.
Those parents should be embarrassed!
YOU ARE THE PARENT!!!!!
So the five that showed up and did what they should get punished? People need to be held accountable for their own actions instead of everyone else having to bend over and make them out to be the victims. Instead of rewarding hard work and dedication , we just encourage laziness and unaccountability/victim mentality.
“I thought,” “I thought”, uhm… sounds like you werent DOING what you should. Right?
This is the new educational model of the republican party, the fact that the students teachers and administrators seemed to be oblivious to the fact thT the majority of students did not meet the requirements to graduate. With a graduating class of less than 40 students, there should be no excuse for this. Time to get some real teachers not political appointees
haha…docta daryl
If the class work was on LGBTQ, they would have all graduated.
This proves that this high school has teachers who are totally incompetent. This school is also run by administrators and a principal who are all brain dead.
How does the mom have the audacity to have a child who.cant even pass a basic test?
It’s not the kid’s fault the the educational system in this country is so corrupted and horrible. The educational system in this country is one of the worst in the world.
Wow,the lack of people grasping the fact that not all public school get the same funding is astonishing. And if you really ant figure out that certain areas get their funding cut because hey,who cares about the non white kids in inner cities? Even white kids come from very poor situations so you cut funding, you impact many. Plus,not all areas have the same tax revenues. An upper income area is going to have better public schools than a lower income area and its all across the nation!
And just think, 91% of the U.S. kids in school attend public schools.
Diversity is our strength.
How many of these kids have failed a class before? I understand they need to have standards and accountability, but in the interest of doing less damage, teachers need to start applying that accountability before second semester of senior year, and stop having “you don’t graduate” be the very first hard line in the sand a child ever encounters in their school career.
The question isn’t ‘how the school let them do that,’ but how they all passed each subject in 9th, 10th, 11th grade if their work is that bad.
Students are not the first priority of the school districts or the parents
Low Iq has something to do with it unfortunately no child left behind is not working a lesson learned!
Marlin High School is ranked 1,213-1,481st within Texas. The total minority enrollment is 92%.
Hmm. . .lets play ‘guess the REAL problem’.
Ha ha ha ha tell teddy cruz!
All the people here that graduated in the 1970s are seriously cracking me up. The comparison of what you had to do and know then vs now are completely different. Most of you couldn’t begin to use a laptop in the way that most seniors are required. Seriously delulu
Teachers should be re-ensuring that these objectives have been reached, students have a lot on their minds during gra.
With that shirt i see why they make merit to stay away from school .
No worries! The rest of the seniors are SMRT enough to vote republican!
They just don’t have the parents, integrity, discipline, knowledge or intelligence to even graduate High School. If these were Chinese students, they would have been in their Third year of college by the 10th grade
How do you not know the kid’s don’t qualify for graduation??? What happened to the counselors?? 5 days before graduation? This is so weird..My son’s teacher’s and counselor will call, send an email, etc. I remember during covid online school my son was still in middle school and his counselor called to tell me he wasn’t doing well and I needed to get him back in school asap for more person to person assistance. Also on canvas you can look at your kid’s grades..My son is in
Hey…states-rights to govern education!
When you are 40th in education as a state, is this really shocking ?
isn’t this the same school that only had half of its seniors qualify for graduation a few years ago? sounds like a problem with the COMMUNITY. If you fail the system it will fail you. don’t be surprised
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Everything is big in Texas, even dumb people
“How did you [the school] let me do that??” Lol
I am just wondering, did the school or the teachers ever send letters to the parents of the kids who did not graduate. Informing them that their kids are failing or not graduating???? I remember in 2019 If I ditch class or was not passing a class, a recorded phone call would come to my parents, or a letter would show up in our mailbox. Instead of not showing up for classes, I rather just go to class and not face the circumstances of being grounded for 3 months. So glad I graduated and left home ASAP to college LOL
Well they must be dumb and stupid….
Those must be the Einsteins of our future 😂
Welcome to Texas!
Boohoo losers maybe you should have done what was required of you to graduate like the five students who qualify for graduation
Y r we not shocked Texas? My god. You should be ashamed,but we know better. Continue the * dumbing down* of the USA? Poor kids .poor all of us .
The superintendent 😍😛😍😛😍😛
Pathetic, just fail them all and they can try to not be such lazy pos next year
Class of 2020 had to take care of themselves if they wanted to graduate with the online computer how are you gonna fail with teachers are right there
Stay on top of your stuff, kids. Managers do not do your work for you. Try better next year.
Its not the schools fault the other dumb dumb didnt make it. But dont punish those who did the hard part.
why punish the 5 that graduated?
America is in deep trouble
So the parents failed these kids.
So becase your faculty failed to give some of these students the test they needed to pass you blam the stidents? No thats just the campus you blame. Studnets cant make your teachers bow to their whim. This is stupid and clearly a faulty faculty issue.
How many seniors were there in the class? The reporter says 38 but the written video description says 33. I guess it doesn’t really matter. I just need to go back to sleep.
its texas. they dont believe in education.
they believe in fascism
Don’t need no highfalutin degree to work for Elon building subsidized Tesla’s for the wealthy. 🤠