The Bronx School of Law, Justice and Government which houses the Eagle Academy, where educators are accusing the principal of forcing them to inflating grades
Educators at the celebrated Eagle Academy for Young Men in the Bronx have accused the principal of ordering them to inflate grades of special-needs students.
The Education Department referred the allegations to the Special Commissioner of Investigation Wednesday.
“I have never seen anything like this,” said Hal Lance, an Eagle Academy English teacher who has taught in city schools for more than 25 years. “I have never seen a principal ask entire departments to change grades.”
Teachers say they were instructed to change failing grades to passing for some special-education students who, in some cases, did not even attend class.
“In some cases, the students haven’t submitted any work at all, and they were failing the exams,” said a teacher who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation. “Some teachers did make the changes.”
Another teacher was told to change a grade of zero for quizzes and classes that students had either skipped or refused to take, she said.
Principal Osei Owusu-Afriye, who is in his first year on the job, accused the teachers of being “disgruntled.”
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