I grew up 15 miles from York and most of my family graduated from York. I know he was in McCool for a short period of time but was he in York during his entire high school?
We don't know the entire story here but I have no idea how a kid who shows up to school every day doesnt get passed along thru the system. I was no rockstar student but when I was struggling in a class the teachers would make me come in after to study. York is a very small community that is very supportive.
Agreed.....you either have to be real "lacking" academically or York doesn't care as much about the $$ behind the good intentioned, but bad program of "no kid left behind".
I have two great examples of that misguided "no kid left behind" program.
1) I know an 8th grade teacher in Lincoln and she told me they ONLY fail a kid, no matter how bad their grades are, if they "physically/sexually attack a teacher or other student" or "don't show up for school enough". She said she was "pressured" to pass students she said wouldn't pass the 3rd grade in the subject she taught because they lose $$ for every student that doesn't pass.
2) In my Fire job with the feds, part of my duties is that I teach, organize, physically train, and take Job Corps students out on RX/fires all over the US as fire fighters. I had one kid, a product of one of the Omaha schools, who had his HS diploma but if he wrote a sentence with 20 words, 18 were misspelled. If I gave him a page 20 easy "6+4=" type of questions, he missed 18....He couldn't construct a sentence correctly...I mean a great kid (and, in case you are wondering, a white kid from a good background, no "thug" life at all) but absolutely no academic skills whatsoever. I will say he told me he did 3 years at one Omaha HS who took academics seriously and when it was evident he wouldn't graduate, he transferred to another Omaha HS known for passing EVERY ONE....and it was true in this case.
Sorry to get off track but it, IMO, takes A LOT to not graduate HS in today's world. Not slamming Mapieu at all, JMO.