DPS Investigates Grade-Fixing At Local School
DETROIT (AP) - A suspicion of grade-fixing looms over one local school. Detroit Public School officials are investigating a claim at Durfee Elementary where, according to the Detroit Free Press, a review of records reveals that grades for as many as 94 science students at the school were changed to passing last year - a practice known as "social promotion.''
Durfee is the same school where science teacher Marjorie Pasqualle says she turned in 94 D's and F's for June report cards that were later changed without her consent to C's. Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb said "anyone who changes a grade is history.''
Altering records is a misdemeanor with penalties including fines up to $2,500, two years in jail and suspension of a teaching certificate.
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