United States: Chicago teachers informed a local radio station that they are being told to give undocumented immigrant children a minimum passing grade of C or 70 percent.
Since 2022, the sanctuary city of Chicago has been the destination of some 50,000 illegal immigrants who have been bussed or flown from the southern border to the town.
Many of them are Venezuelan and are sent to the black neighborhoods of Chicago, WGN reported.
Reporter Sylvia Snowden stated in an interview that she has spoken to teachers at “multiple” Chicago Public Schools who have all told her that they were told to pass “migrant” children, which, in some instances, meant deliberately falsifying grades.
Snowden said that teachers told her it isn’t “just the classes” where teachers had to pass assignments and exams submitted by migrant students.
“It’s not just the classes but the academic testing, the standardized testing that the students do every single year. We had one teacher tell us … that her student simply was not at [passing] grade level based upon the tests that were taken,” she added.
Radio host Jon Hansen noted that he thought the standardized testing was out of the hands of teachers and was managed at the state level.
When confronted with this information, Chicago Public Schools responded, “Chicago public schools aim to provide a rigorous, welcoming, inclusive pre-K through 12 environment for all students, including those who are newly arrived in Chicago with their families from around the globe. As a district, we have high expectations for all students and policies and promotion guidelines in place that are modified to serve the specialized needs of our English language learners, and offer in school, after-school year-round interventions developed with the principal/counselor/teacher and parents to target the students described deficiencies.”
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