https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/baltimore-student-passes-3-classes-in-four-years-ranks-near-top-half-of-class-with-013-gOn Monday, Project Baltimore reported on Tiffany France’s son. In his four years at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Design, he passed three classes and earned a grade point average of 0.13. Yet, his transcripts show his class rank is 62 of 120, meaning 58 students, just in his grade, have a 0.13 GPA or lower.
Transcripts show a Baltimore City student's class rank is 62 of 120, meaning 58 students, just in his grade at Augusta Fells, have a 0.13 GPA or lower (WBFF)
France, a single mother of three working three jobs, says the school never told her that her son was failing until last month, when the 17-year-old was put back in ninth grade.
“I'm just trying to fight. He like, ‘Mom, what was all this for? What did I do this for?’ Don't he get a chance? Do he get a chance?” said France. “He didn't fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job.”
“He feels embarrassed, he feels like a failure,” France said of her son. “I'm like, you can't feel like that. And you have to be strong and you got to keep fighting. Life is about fighting. Things happen, but you got to keep fighting. And he's willing, he's trying, but who would he turn to when the people that's supposed to help him is not? Who do he turn to?”
“He's a good kid. He didn't deserve that. Where's the mentors? Where is the help for him? I hate that this is happening to my child,” said France.
