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CLEVELAND -- It may be hard to believe, but the first quarter of the school year is coming to an end.
And Twyonia Cooper's daughter, Taylor, is still being taught by substitute teachers at John Adams High School.
"She says, 'Mom, we need foreign language [to graduate], but we don't have a Spanish teacher,'" Cooper explains.
Cooper, the head of the Parent-Teacher Organization for John Adams, says 13 teaching positions are still being filled with substitutes.
At Monday night's Cleveland City Council meeting, Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed expressed his outrage.
"They're sitting in the cafeteria. That's what they [students] told me. They're sitting in the cafeteria because they only have substitute teachers," he declared while addressing fellow councilmembers.
Angry parents, like Cooper, say they've had enough.
John Adams High School is one of 13 so-called "investment schools" -- struggling schools that were identified by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to receive special attention, with the new funds and focus from the passage of a 15-mill levy last year.
Now, 10 weeks into the school year, Cooper says 20 percent of the teaching positions at John Adams are not permanently filled.
Parents are especially concerned, since students begin taking the Ohio Graduation Test next week. Students are required to pass the test in order to graduate.
"So how do you pass a test? How do you pass a foreign language test when you don't even have a foreign language teacher?" asked Reed.
Reed, along with parents and students plan to demand answers from CMSD CEO, Eric Gordon, and school board members at Tuesday night's board meeting.
Parents like Cooper feel like time is running out for their kids.
"I think that the school is being set up to fail. I really honestly do. And I don't know why," she said.
WKYC-TV
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