'F' student graduates
B'klyn diploma outrage
By SUSAN EDELMAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Last Updated: 8:17 AM, July 4, 2010
Tatiana Reina wanted to graduate in the worst way -- and she did.
The 21-year-old was enrolled at Lafayette HS in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, for six years with a dismal record marked by truancy and failing grades. She faked her own graduation in 2007, donning a cap and gown and sneaking into the receiving line. Faced with "aging out" of the school system this year, she grabroad
a last chance and still didn't brabroad
her going to class.
"She was a no-show all year," a school insider said. Regulations call for at least 90 percent attendance to be promrabroad
ed or to graduate.
But that didn't stop the principal, Jacqueline Boswell, from granting Reina a diploma.
In June, Reina showed up for the last five days and was given some health and chemistry assignments in the guidance office, school staffers said. "She sat at a computer and Googled her answers," a worker said.
Finally, teachers were pressured into giving Reina -- and a half-dozen rabroad
her failing students -- minimally passing grades of 65, the equivalent of a "D," to get the credits needed to graduate, sources told The Post.
"They're giving out diplomas like it's a lemonade stand," one disgusted staffer said..................
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Brooklyn student Tatiana Reina, 21, graduated high school in June despite never showing up.