New York High School Student : I was always stoned, drunk and skipping class — so they let me graduate early

The New York Post reports:

Thomas Macalaran Creighton admits he spent most of his junior and senior years at Maspeth High School in Queens drunk and stoned out of his mind, often asleep in the school library. He rarely attended classes and completed no homework assignments his senior year.

How did school administrators handle his chronic misbehavior and truancy?

They promoted him to the head of the class and let him graduate — six months early, in January 2015.

“They handed me a few work sheets for each subject, and told me if I completed them in a week, I could graduate six months early,” Creighton, now 21, told The Post. “I knew I didn’t deserve it but I thought, ‘Why not?’ I had another kid fill in the work sheets, and they gave me a diploma.”

The sad moments of government schools.