"According to an audit from the district, only five out of the 33 Marlin High School seniors are eligible to graduate. The audit found that a majority of the Class of 2023 either didn't complete or failed a required course, or had too many absences.
"They're saying that I'm missing an elective class, but with that I don't understand because in 9th grade I took a typing class," senior C'ijah Williams said.Seniors Praiyer Jones and Alondra Alvarado are among the five that the district says met graduation eligibility requirements.
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They told us that because of the students that didn't meet the requirements it wouldn't be fair for only five students to walk the stage," Alvarado said.
Senior Salvador Guerro is one of the 28 seniors who was told he is not eligible to graduate, hearing the news just days before the previously scheduled graduation.
"I get a phone call and he's like your son will not be graduating," his mother Victoria Banda said.
His family is coming in from outside the country and purchasing airline tickets just to attend his graduation."We have family traveling in from Mexico and if anyone knows it's not cheap," Banda said.Guerrero learned last week that he needs to complete the STAAR test for an online US History course, but the test can't be administered until the summer.
His classmate, Williams, who was also told she did not meet requirements, is now scrambling to complete entire courses in just a handful of days.
"It's going to be really tough and it's time consuming," she said."Good grief... Go to school. Do your assignments. Do your homework.
Such a mystery how this works.
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