“Six high school seniors and their parents are levying serious accusations against Duanesburg Central School District officials, saying they canceled a college-level chemistry class midyear because the students’ grades weren’t good enough.
The group, which also includes AMRI Global chemist Brian Bliss, who assisted in teaching the class, provided the Times Union with a copy of a lengthy complaint to the state Education Department which charges that Duanesburg Superintendent Christine Crowley and others tampered with grades and tried to bully the students into withdrawing from the course on their own after the second quarter ended in January. In the end, the students were assigned to a study hall, and their grades were scrubbed from their transcripts in favor of a “P” for passing, the complaint alleges.
Amiee Todd said taking away the numerical grades switched her daughter Katie’s senior-class rank from second to third, denying her the chance to be salutatorian and to receive more financial aid from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at which she will enroll in the fall.”
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Stanforth, Lauren. Times Union 6 May 2013.