Behind The Lens episode 61:'Even if a school is not performing well, parents generally don't want to see this overturn every year.'
This week on Behind The Lens:
Charters for two New Orleans schools will not be renewed next year – and one of those schools will return to Orleans Parish School Board control. Marta Jewson has the story.
Also, the governing board of the Morial Convention Center deferred a vote to approve an architect for a half-billion dollar capital improvement plan. Michael Isaac Stein explains.
And two months after the Hard Rock Hotel collapse, local unions and community members petition City Hall, demanding better laws to protect workers.
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Behind The Lens episode 61:'Even if a school is not performing well, parents generally don't want to see this overturn every year.' | The Lens
Some Kennedy HS students move on, others still working toward diplomas
In a way, Dwayne Crenshaw was one of the lucky members of the John F. Kennedy High School class of 2019. Unlike dozens of other Kennedy students, when he walked at graduation last May, he actually graduated.
As a result of pervasive mismanagement, about half the members of the class of 2019 were found ineligible to graduate on time, though the majority didn’t find that out until about a month after the graduation ceremony. More than half a year later, some are still trying to finish high school. Some finished, but months later than they had expected.
Some experienced a bit less disruption to their lives. They got their diplomas over the summer and, in many cases, just finished their first semester of college. Crenshaw is in that group.
That’s not to say he looks back fondly.
“I feel like I have completely washed my hands of the school. I do not affiliate myself with them,” he said of his high school. “They could have handled it more professionally and handled it with more empathy.”
Crenshaw had planned to attend North Carolina A&T State University in the fall. But he’s CONTINUE READING: Some Kennedy HS students move on, others still working toward diplomas
