Posted on 10/28/2015 8:35:24 AM PDT by xzins
Sonoma County, California school district has instituted a new grading scale that substantially lowers the bar to allow underachieving students, traditionally known as failures, to climb into more average grade territory.
Its called the equal interval scale, and according to The Press Democrat, it makes it harder to get a failing grade by moving the F scale to below 20% as opposed to the standard 59% and below. The equal interval scale is modeled to raise grades in 20-point increments, which would mean scores between 20% and 40% will now earn students a D- or D+. Making a score of 80 or above now makes them straight-A students.
A middle school math and science teacher told the Democrat that his worst math students are now receiving Cs and a science student with only a 23% grade has earned a D-.
Speaking before the school board, this teacher complained, This isnt giving students hope, it is lowering standards in order to raise grades. Wow.
So, whats happening is that kids will receive high school diplomas nowadays without having to do any work and for failing miserably?
Were literally encouraging students to be failures?
A for effort, California!
What good does this do for future American leaders?
I guess Sonoma County is setting up these kids to be fast-food workers for life.
Doesnt anyone have to take responsibility for their actions anymore?
Where have all the adults gone?
By implementing this fundamentally ridiculous idea, whats the point of even having teachers in classrooms?
I wonder if the thinking at the time went something like this
California has a large number of minorities living in the state, and many students arent passing their classes. Lets just make things easier for everyone. I mean, we dont want to look like racists!
Like liberal policies, the Sonoma County school district will do whatever it can to keep people down.
Lady Liberty weeps.
Every question should include at least one “m f’er” in its body. Den dey wud be fare!
Go ahead LIBs. Dumb things down further. Now your little darlings will be losers with better grades.
Banana.
Merita white bread.
Dukes mayonaisse.
Hey!
It works with National Unemployment stats!
It works with Cost of Living Stats!
It works with National Black Crime Stats...
” Banana.
Merita white bread.
Dukes mayonaisse
Sounds delicious.
I never even heard of Duke’s or Merita. We learn something every day here at FR. :-)
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Doing this basically dooms all students of this school district. No college will accept a student from Sonoma County without the student first completing an entrance exam and then taking 1 to 2 years of remedial classes or they will be required to have attended a community college or equivalent.
You never ate a nanner sandwich?——philistine!
“philistine!”
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I have always lived in the Boston area.
Same thing,I guess.
:-)
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“underachieving students, traditionally known as failures”
That has to be rough on their self-esteem.
“There will be a remedial class for you failures.”
So, all a teacher has to do is make the big tests TRUE OR FALSE and no one can fail!
“I guess Sonoma County is setting up these kids to be fast-food workers for life.”
Or working for a Mexican American, who knows math and how to read and runs his/her own business. Who want dumbed down people to work for them.
This action by the teacher’s union, is aimed at keeping Mexican kids in school to get the federal and state $’s per student and the white kids with parents who can’t do math nor read past a primary school level. If their kids know how to operate a smart phone and are able to text. They are happy because the kids can teach them how to use their smart phones often paid for by tax payers.
“You can imagine what will happen to the school district when all the smarter students leave the school district.”
They don’t care, they get paid the same/day for a dumb student versus a smart student by the feds and state. Many schools get more per day to help the dumb ones to pass.
H1B work visas looking more attractive all the time, when we crank out these idiots.
It’s on purpose to justify the immigrants.
We didn’t go from the best in the world in math and science just 40 years ago by accident. We changed what we were doing on purpose, and continued changes that accelerated that decline. On purpose.
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