NYC school ‘falsifies’ English credits with Dungeons & Dragons ‘class’By Susan Edelman
July 1, 2023
It’s not readin’ or writin’ — but roleplay.
A Brooklyn high school gives students English credits for playing Dungeons & Dragons — a practice teachers blast as shameless scholastic sorcery, The Post has learned.
It’s one of the wizardly ways that Gotham Professional Arts Academy achieved a 91% percent graduation rate last year — despite 79% of students marked chronically absent and half deemed unprepared for college.
“During the course of the semester, I’d say I wrote about three to four paragraphs,” said a Gotham student who notched an English credit by enrolling in the twice-weekly D&D meets.
“It’s more of a club,” a classmate agreed.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/01/nyc-school-falsifies-credits-with-dungeons-dragons/
