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If true...then why are the “educators” giving them a diploma? Insanity from the nutty “educators”.

That’s a rhetorical question I presume. If you have any doubt, just recall the teacher organized mass cheating on competency tests in Atlanta a few years back.

You would not believe the pressure put on teachers to pass students who really should not pass. It can range from a "friendly word" from an administrator to a letter in your file. If your passing rate is too low, because the students are excessively absent, just don't do any work despite chats, letters home, etc., you are often targeted for harassment. You have been pulling out all the stops, staying up late nights to try and design great lessons, tutoring kids on your free periods, etc. but guess what? Very very few kids show up for tutoring sessions, generally. They often don't turn in projects. They openly admit they don't study for tests. They make the same studying mistakes over and over again, despite your telling them correct practices. They spend more time during class trying to sneak texts on their cell phones than paying attention to the lesson and asking intelligent questions.

The new "Bloomberg-bred" student knows that they basically don't have to do anything, and their teacher will be pressured to pass them. And if they DO receive their just grade, they openly threaten the teacher ("I'm a gonna get you fired, b__tch!") rather than amend their academic practices. Oh, HELL no!

They don't BELONG in college, clogging up the classrooms there and taking remedial courses which simply repeat their failed high school work at a much higher cost to the taxpayers.