Seniors at Marlin (Texas) High School should wait one other month for graduation after an audit discovered solely 5 college students had been eligible to graduate.
The faculty district’s audit, taken May 18, seemed into attendance, grades and credit of the 33 college students within the faculty’s conventional program; 5 college students in an alternate schooling program weren’t audited.
The commencement was scheduled for Thursday, however Marlin Independent School District officers knowledgeable college students and households final weekend of the delay. The highschool is the one one within the district.
“They told us that because of the students that didn’t meet the requirements it wouldn’t be fair for only five students to walk the stage,” Alondra Alvarado, one in all 5 seniors who met necessities, instructed KWTX-TV, a Waco CBS affiliate.
The faculty and college students will now attempt to qualify.
“We hold firm to our belief that every student in Marlin ISD can and will achieve their potential. We maintain high expectations, not as an imposition, but as a show of faith in our students’ abilities. … Students in Marlin ISD will be held to the same high standard as any other student in Texas,” Marlin ISD Superintendent Darryl Henson stated in a press release Wednesday.
Mr. Henson stated that, regardless of the ailing emotions brought on by delaying the commencement, he would quite reschedule the occasion than inform college students later that their diplomas are invalid.
As of Wednesday, 17 of 38 college students had made up what was wanted with a view to graduate. By Thursday, that quantity had jumped to 25 of 38 whole seniors at Marlin High School.
The new commencement date has not been set, however it is going to happen someday after summer time faculty ends on June 22.
District officers will likely be assembly with dad and mom over the subsequent week to find out if their kids want summer time faculty with a view to graduate, Mr. Henson instructed KCEN-TV, a Temple NBC affiliate.
In the interim, the group held an impromptu ceremony Thursday rather than commencement at Marlin Missionary Baptist Church.
Students wore commencement garb and got certificates of feat.
“We are a community that when we are faced with adversity we pull together just like a family. A grandmother flew in from Mexico here to see her son graduate. And these are moments that you have to cherish,” Brandolyn Jones, a mom of a Marlin High School senior, instructed KWTX-TV.
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