HOUSTON -- The new superintendent of Spring ISD will meet with hundreds of concerned and sometimes outraged parents Monday night, who learned that their children may not graduate on time all because of mix-ups by teachers and administrators.
Spring ISD confirms that 592 seniors from Dekaney, Westfield, and Spring High Schools may be affected by previously undiscovered problems with their transcripts.
The discrepancies, discovered after the Texas education agency looked at Spring ISD data, could impact up to a third of the graduating seniors.
Initial reports are that this could affect at least, at least 592 seniors from Dekaney, Westfield, and Spring High Schools – that's one-third of all of the seniors.
Spring ISD confirms that hundreds of students weren't given enough classes.
And now, with a new superintendent trying to clean up this mess, the students impacted will need to take online courses, or earn credits by exam, or take the missing classes during the school day and fit them into their current schedule if they want to graduate on time.
"He has no idea how this could have happened and it's really not even something he as an educator can figure out why or how , there are so many different pieces of the puzzle and none of them say this should have happened, said Spring ISD spokesperson Sheleah Reed speaking on behalf of new superintendent Dr. Rodney Watson.
"What he is going to say is that it will never happen again and it shouldn't have happened and those who will be found responsible well they're going to have some consequences to pay," she added.
There has been fallout from this already.
The new superintendent has accepted the resignations of the former chief academic officer of Spring ISD. At the time of resignation she was director of special projects.
And the principal of Westfield High School and the Director of Data Integrity both resigned last Friday.
The meeting with concerned parents and students begins at 6:30 Monday night at Dekaney High School in the school theater, with the superintendent planning to answer parents' questions himself.
Meetings are scheduled for next week to address the same concerns with juniors, sophomores, and freshman.
