She was pulled from a course she was passing and told that she had failed.
Now, yet another family fears their student may have been a victim of questionable testing and grading practices inside a struggling Nashville high school.
“For them to just push her like that and push her to the side and say that she wasn’t good enough when she had been working so hard to be good enough, that’s not fair to her,” the student’s mother, Sandra Parente, told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
Her daughter, Alexis Pearsall, is a 16-year-old Hunters Lane High School student whose mother has seen a side that Metro School officials haven’t seen.
“They are not the ones that sat and watched her be depressed and sit in her room and not go anywhere and not talk to anyone because she was terrified her grades were not going to be good enough,” Parente said.
Alexis was enrolled last year in freshman biology.
Biology is one of those critical subjects that has an End-of-Course exam that’s used to judge how well the school is performing.
“I was doing fine,” Alexis recalled.
But when she returned to school after the winter break last year, Alexis was told that she had failed the first semester and was being put into what’s called credit recovery — to study biology on a computer on her own.
“I was wondering why I got put in there when I passed, when I passed it,” Alexis remembered. “I shouldn’t have been put in there.”
NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked, “So you had passed the first semester — and you were told to redo it on the computer?”
“Yes,” she answered. (continue reading at NewsChannel5)