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Judge: Graduation goes on without OGT flunkers
Judge Frances McGee
My colleague Lou Grieco has the story on Judge Frances McGee’s decision not to block Thurgood Marshall High School’s graduation.
McGee said Donald Domineck, a parent of a Thurgood Marshall student who has not passed the OGT, presented “not one scintilla of evidence concerning his daughter and the effect that School Board policy has had on her” at a hearing last week in her court last week.
UPDATE: Domineck already has filed an appeal of McGee’s decision. It has not been put on the court docket yet, but it has been filed in the system.
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By autovermietung mallorca
October 17, 2010 11:55 PM | Link to this
Very enlightening and beneficial to someone whose been out of the circuit for a long time. Kris
By Davidss2
May 29, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this
Has anyone seen a picture of Donald Domineck? I’d like to see one.
By davidss2
May 29, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
Anon has it wrong. The rules were clear BEFORE these current graduates entered high school that the 10th grade OGT tests were the required test. I haven’t gone back to look on the ODE site to find when the FIRST public announcement was made, but I’ll give it 8 years that it has been public knowledge. BTW the OGT just asked questions of a level the high school graduate should show ability to perform at; the proficiency tests preceding them were 8th grade level tests. Which one do you think should be used? The NCLB show withKennedy, Bush, and Boehner has little to do with the level of the tests and the required show of knowledge. Don’t you want a high school student to show that minimal performance? After all the public wanted ACCOUNTABILITY of everyone in education. And the public got it. The kids, the parents, and the schools have accountability. Everyone EXCEPT the governor and the legislators have accountability.
By anon
May 28, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Deb is right. The problem here is not with the district, but with the test requirement (part of No Child Left Behind) itself. It’s not fair that the kids won’t graduate because of a requirement instituted during their high school years. Sounds to me like many kids are being left behind.
By bystander/parent
May 28, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
I think the district could let the kids march - just don’t award the diploma until they pass the test. When I graduated from WSU in June, classmates who would not complete their degree requirements until August were permitted to march with us - they just received an empty diploma case. Their transcript will not show a diploma awarded until it is earned, but you only get one chance for the ceremony.
By Scott Elliott
May 27, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this
Sorry for the bad headline. It’s fixed now.
By Rick
May 27, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this
Scott, shouldn’t the headline read “Judge: Graduation goes on without OGT flunkers”?
By deb
May 27, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
graduation goes on “with OGT flunkers”? or “withOUT OGT flunkers”??? I am glad the judge upheld the Board’s policy for graduation. If parents don’t like the State guidelines, then people need to be changing what the State requires for graduation.