Protect the Value of the Diploma: Reject Social Promotion and Restore Academic Integrity

Teachers are accusing higher-ups at New York City’s Flushing High School are forcing them to pass students who are failing math classes.

Educators at the school claim students are being given passing grades despite being chronically absent, failing to turn in homework or participate in class activities and regularly failing tests, including state exams, three teachers told QNS on the condition of anonymity. Despite this, the teachers are required to hand the students passing grades.

Only about 30% of students passed the New York State Regents Exams the previous academic year, yet 70% are pushed towards graduation anyway, the teachers claimed.

“It just seems like expectations have become lower,” one teacher told QNS. “It’s becoming easier to get a passing grade just based on what the administration expects teachers to be doing.”