Will You Help Me Fail?

Hello, my name is Katrina. I am an aunt, a concerned citizen, and an active member of society and I'm here to ask, will you help me fail? Within recent months so many schools have been caught red handed in what can be called "cheating scandals" where they have either changed answers on test, or just entered in a passing grade for students for various reasons. My question is if school is the resource in which we use to prepare students for the future to go out an be productive members  of society by what you may see as help is ultimately hurt, here's why. The ultimate goal is to prepare them to be able to function and compete within today's society not only for themselves but for those who live around them. The basic expectation cannot be met if you as an educator are just giving them a pass because then you will cause opportunities to then pass them because of their lack of knowledge. Here are some facts

As of April of this year:

14% of adult in the US cant read past a basic level:

32,000,00 cant read at all 

24% are African American 

41% are Hispanics 

The expectation when leaving high school is that you should at least know how to read, yet these are our current percentages. So it more than just letting the student down and not fulfilling your obligations as an educator you are now letting society down as a whole sending yet another uneducated person out to experience life. Its like going to battle without protection you are then vunerable to then lead by the life that you know, decisions are influenced by your knowledge. You have taken the wrong side of the stand of doing all that you can do when you give out grades, knowing that the student does not understand completely of the lessons giving within school yet you pass them anyway is still considered harmful. not taking the consideration the oath taken that you should do no harm to anyone and its not just a teacher or doctor oath that is an oath society as a whole should and needs to take upon themselves. Because once we step outside those school doors we are all interconnected to one another which means not only have you failed the student, not only have you failed yourself as an educator but you have now failed society as a whole.