Chicago schools reportedly instructed teachers to give migrants passing grades regardless of performance | 19 Sept 2024 | Chicago Public Schools teachers were instructed by school officials to give migrant students passing grades and promote them to the next grade, "even if the students displayed severe academic deficiencies," a new report claims. WGN News reported that "multiple" teachers from different schools within the district reached out to them to expose the troubling trend. One teacher said she was told to give one of her students a "C" in all her grades and pass her along to the third grade despite testing at "kindergarten level." Another teacher revealed that school officials directly told him during a training to promote migrant students to the next grade.