There were no answers from Dallas County College for a high school student at Dallas ISD‘s Trinidad Garza Early College High School. A Dallas ISD senior who was part of the dual enrollment plan went went without faculty supervision.
The Dallas ISD senior says his college professor did not hold any virtual classes, and doesn’t returned his emails. Two weeks ago he says his grade abruptly changed from a ‘B’ to an ‘F’ and he’s yet to receive an explanation.
No Answers From Dallas County College or Dallas ISD
Per Fox4, Eric Miranda is a senior in Dallas ISD. Earlier this year, he expressed concern about the early college class he took online where the teacher never provided his or her name and was not conducting lectures by Zoom or webinar.
Miranda’s father, Dr. Gregory Powell said, “There is no feedback, no way to speak to the professor, no idea what their name is.”
“I would hope they would at least require Zoom classes so students can talk and learn face to face,” Miranda said.
“One of the questions we would like answered is who is the instructor,” Miranda said.
Powell tried going thru the principal at Trinidad Garza, only to be met by two weeks of silence.
Dallas ISD said professors work for Mountain View and are not required to give lectures.
Mountain View was asked by local news if its professors are allowed to remain anonymous to students.
The college responded: “Because this is a personal matter involving student information, we are not legally allowed to comment.”
However, Shawnda Navarro Floyd, Provost for Dallas College, sent out an email to teaching faculty about the news report.
In the email she said “We cannot effectively serve our students if our students, or the public at large, believes Dallas College is an institution at which online courses are run on autopilot; where grades are seldom provided in a timely fashion (if at all); and where students are unable to get any response from their instructor.”
It is not known what discipline, if any, was faced by the college professor whose class Eric Miranda was assigned.
The report that a Dallas ISD dual enrollment student was not meeting with his assigned college faculty comes as similar reports were told about other high schools in Dallas including Woodrow Wilson High School. The report also comes on the heels of a fall report saying Dallas students were failing as a group.