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Originally posted by sw4566:
My wife is a retired HS teacher. She had a black female student who emigrated from IIRC, Kenya,
who was bullied by other minority students for “acting white”. The kid kept her head down, did the work, and got an academic scholarship to one of the better private universities around here. Many of her peers are stuck in menial jobs.

My high school was for all intents was a ghetto school, it resembled Lord of the Flies in many ways. There were two black kids, girl from Nigeria and the boy from London, both spoke with an English-accent. The amount of grief and shit they got from other blacks was merciless, the guy from London got all sorts of shit about being royalty, a snob, people assuming 'he was better than them', drinking tea, people mocking his accent, basically every stereotype thrown at him. The girl, not only got the same stereotype's thrown at her but, because she was from Nigeria, everyone asked her if she hunted lions, wore animals skins, ate 'weird shit'. The topper was most of her friends were white, which baffled or, angered the other black girls in the school, it was sad and pathetic seeing so much dumb on display. They both stuck around for one year and didn't see them the next, the amount of ignorant and stupid comments they constantly got was over the top.

https://hotair.com/archives/jo...tigation-since-2019/

Fox45 News recently learned City Schools has been investigating Augusta Fells since the summer of 2019, when North Avenue found “irregularities” at the school.

According to a statement from the school district, the principal and assistant principal were placed on administrative leave. But what the statement doesn’t say, is they stayed on payroll .

Principal Tracy Hicks retired in January of this year after being on leave for 17 months

Reeks of corruption.

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According to a statement from the school district, the principal and assistant principal were placed on administrative leave. But what the statement doesn’t say, is they stayed on payroll .

Principal Tracy Hicks retired in January of this year after being on leave for 17 months

Paid leave for 17 months makes perfect sense in this instance after learning that there is a separate union for principals. The fact that the union president isn't responding to interview requests makes sense as well given the increasing level of interest in the "irregularities" found at the school.

However, during a less guarded moment, the union president apparently made this statement:

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“Let me be very careful about this. That’s why our principals might be doing things that upper management, the public might question,” said [Union president Jimmy] Gittings at the time. “They have no other choice. Either they do what they’re told to do, and either be punished for it, or don’t do it and get punished.”…

They have no choice but to do what they're told? It's mind-numbing how often that tired trope is offered up by those embroiled in "irregularities".

New info about Augusta Fells HS in Baltimore

Fox45 News has obtained a document, from October 2019, which contains the names of 21 seniors at Augusta Fells. Sources tell us the school compiled the list of students who, while enrolled on paper, were not physically attending class and some hadn’t for years. They’re known by educators as ghost students.

In Maryland, schools receive funding per student. The more students enrolled, the more money the school gets.

City Schools receives nearly $16,000 per student, every year.

two students enrolled at Augusta Fells in 2019 hadn’t received a grade since the 2015-2016 school year. Another four students enrolled in 2019 hadn’t received grades since the 2016-2017 school year. One student spent five years in ninth grade, and another spent five years just in 12th grade. And the school likely received funding for all of them.

What’s clearly going on at Augusta Fells is probably going on at other city schools. A former city council member who runs a charter school told Fox45 he believes ghost students are haunting all of the city’s schools and for the same reasons, i.e. schools are funded based on headcount. “It’s an open secret. To be frank with you. It’s an open secret that the system is very sloppy in its accounting. And so, it’s an open secret that there are thousands of kids who are not coming to school every day who are still on the rolls,” Carl Stokes said.

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/20...-high-school-n385409

The fact that the Maryland IG's office has been investigating this for 20 months without having taken any action does not seem to bode well.

Additionally, it's curious that there is no federal interest in this case given that federal funds are involved.