Teachers have revealed school administrators directed them to assign passing grades to immigrant students during the last academic year, despite many not meeting language and other educational requirements.
Several Chicago Public Schools elementary teachers say they were told to give these students a 70 percent—or C average—grade across all subjects and move them on to the next academic level despite their shortcomings.
Teachers struggled in attempting to provide the migrant children with any education, as few could speak English, and most teachers had little to no proficiency in Spanish. The schools involved did not provide programs for teaching English as a second language.
