Scholarship....yes! Now...maybe not! [Iona]

[Blakeon18]

http://newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/hs_drops_the_ball_on_star_UkKEcTKqNsQx0QqSYBVHxH

The link is to an article in today's New York Post....a high school administration screw-up???

 

[Icebear]

Wow, I see a lawsuit in the schools future.

 

[rbny1]

There may be more to the story than is disclosed in the Post article. But taking the article at face value, what an incredibly creepy way for adults in positions of authority to treat a young woman. They should go out of their way to encourage and support her, not use their own failures to stymie her. Adults who do awful things like this should be held publicly accountable.

 

[JimGunther]

Do you ever wonder how things get to this point?

If I'm looking at a $200,000 Scholarship for my kiddo, I'm following up EVERY day, dotting every "I" and crossing every "T" . You know what they say about "ASSUME"? Assume NOTHING!

The article sounds like somebody screwed up the paperwork (and this is exactly the kind of thing that can happen ) - It'll be interesting to see this plays out. I hope the student doesn't become the victim.

 

[vtcwbuff]

I believe that there has to be more to this story. It makes no sense that a school administration would screw up a transcript submittal, a possibility, and then ignore what should be a matter of faxing the missing documents. I suppose it's possible that the school records are missing or screwed up and the school is trying to fix it.

My guess (based on nothing) is that there may indeed be some academic eligibility issue.

 

[katiecrum1992]

Do you ever wonder how things get to this point?

If I'm looking at a $200,000 Scholarship for my kiddo, I'm following up EVERY day, dotting every "I" and crossing every "T" . You know what they say about "ASSUME"? Assume NOTHING!

The article sounds like somebody screwed up the paperwork (and this is exactly the kind of thing that can happen ) - It'll be interesting to see this plays out. I hope the student doesn't become the victim.

Cause when you assume, you make an ass out of u and me

 

[Jim]

Canarsie High School is near Jamaica Bay and was certainly in the Hurricane Sandy flood zone. Possibly storm damage caused missing/destroyed documentation.