Project Baltimore tracked down an apparent ghost student who attended a west Baltimore high school that’s now under investigation.
“I attended the school from 2014 up until 2017,” said a former student at Augusta Fells Savage Institute.
FOX45 News wanted to speak with the former student, now a 22-year-old year man, because his name appears on a list obtained by Project Baltimore of 21 seniors enrolled at Augusta Fells during the 2019 school year. The students were enrolled at the school, even though it appears they were not attending, and in some cases, hadn’t been for years.
The 21 possible ghost students would mean taxpayers likely paid North Avenue $331,653 to educate students who were not there.
Augusta Fells is a school caught up in scandal. It’s currently under an internal investigation by North Avenue for grading irregularities and enrollment issues.
“From basically the beginning of 2017, all the way up in 2019, or whenever was going on, I signed up for no classes. I was dropped out, left the school. Didn’t enroll back in the school or nothing,” said the former student.
Court records show, in August 2019, he was arrested on drug distribution charges. But in October of that year, his name appeared on a list of students enrolled at Augusta Fells, even though he wouldn’t be released from jail for another two months, in December 2019. He told Project Baltimore that he can’t think of any reason why his name would’ve been on the rolls.
Just another reason to cut all EDUCATION including higher Education funding by 50%. These fake numbers are robbing the tax payer and inflating cost to give Administrators, tenure professors / teachers and other over paid personnel huge paychecks for being incompetent and not abiding by their contracts.
As long as he is on the roll they get more money. Money that they will waste on unnecessary things and to line their own pockets. Baltimore students receive almost the most about of funding per student of all the students in the state yet they produce the same results……..failure.
Most people don’t know it but schools get paid per student so of course they are going to keep him on the rolls. We have to pay for his seat at the public schools in Baltimore and we are also paying to teach him in Jail so we are duplicating services.
Teachers unions don’t lift a finger or offer any solutions, just demand more money, fewer, shorter school days and spend member dues on politicians that don’t do a thing except shovel more money and promote liberal agendas “for the kids.”