Jaiden Papp's Grade
One commonly questioned issue about Jaiden Papp is his grade. Originally, when he lived in Fairfield and attended West Essex High School, he was in the Class of 2024 , meaning he would be a senior in the year 2024 (present time when this article was written).
However, due to his poor grades and academic performance, it has been long speculated that he failed grades, forcing him to potentially change grades and repeat grades. This issue has come up multiple times, most prominently in March 2022. It is currently believed that Jaiden is now a Junior (Class of 2025) due to his poor academic performance in the 2022-2023 school year.
"Sophomore" Incident (2022)
During 2022, BLau took a picture of Jaiden's gradebook. In this photo, it is clear that he has poor grades, having Fs in two classes, 2 C's and 1 D.
Jaiden had previously said that he had to go to summer school that year. Combined with his poor grades, this led to theories by BLau and Brian Perez that he had failed summer school, forcing him to be a freshman during this time (Class of 2025).
Jaiden got very angry at these claims, and refuted them by sending a picture of his google classroom. While on the surface, these classes appeared to be "Sophomore" classes, on closer inspection there were some suspect elements.
One major issue that people had with this screenshot is that one of his classes was listen as "Sophomore English" which seemed suspicious and possibly edited.
Analysis
Suspecting that Papp was lying in some way about his schedule or grades, BLau did some analysis.
On the Hunterdon Central Website, there is a program of studies, which details all of the available courses at the school. Each class in the google classroom had a corresponding number, which was also displayed in the gradebook photo. This made it easy to compare the classes in his schedule, to determine the class he was taking, making any edits he made to the google classroom pointless.
Example: On the screenshot of his classes, he claims to be taking "Sophomore English" which is a dubious name for an actual class in a school. We can see the teacher is "Penny Wintermute". By looking on his gradebook, Penny Wintermute teaches a class with the id "012-12", which he is currently failing. Looking for the ID 012 on the course studies, we can see it corresponds to English 1, a freshman course. Similar method can be used for his other classes.
| Course | Course # | Teacher | Claimed Course | Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English 1 | 012-12 | Penny Wintermute | "Sophomore English" | 9 |
| US History | 101-16 | Lindsay Warren | US history | 9 |
| Environmental and Earth Science | 401-03 | Michael Massimo | Biology | 9 |
| Algebra 1 CP | 313-05 | Rebecca Mulvihill | Geometry | 9 |
It can be easily inferred that since all his classes are taught to freshmen, that he therefore would be a Freshman, and failed school. However, after this rumor was spread, he got extremely angry and defensive. When this proof was presented, it led to him having a mental breakdown and suicidal ideation.
He would present proof of his school ID, which would suggest that he was a Sophomore, and would claim that he had been allowed to take Freshman and Sophomore classes simultaneously due to him previously failing the freshman classes.
Cassidy Leaked Info
Around 2023-2024, Jaiden would talk to Cassidy Mooney, where he would admit to her that he had failed summer school and been forced to repeat his junior year. As a result of this, the prediction that he would fail a grade was proven true. He also wanted to attend Lehigh University and asked her about it, however due to his academic performance it is very unlikely they would allow him to attend the prestigious institution.
