WGNRadio – Chicago Public Schools teachers were instructed by school officials to give migrant students passing grades and promote them to the next grade, “even if the students displayed severe academic deficiencies,” a new report claims.
News agencies reported that “multiple” teachers from different schools within the district reached out to them to expose the troubling trend.
One teacher said she was told to give one of her students a “C” in all her grades and pass her along to the third grade despite testing at “kindergarten level.”
The teachers we spoke with work in CPS elementary schools and say they spoke no Spanish, while their migrant students spoke no English, making communication virtually impossible.
They also added that because their schools were located in predominantly Black neighborhoods, they offered no English as a Second Language (ESL) support.
Despite this, they say they were instructed by school administrators to give their migrant students a 70 percent in every subject and pass them on to the next grade.
