but the main thing is, the little darlings feel good about themselves... and are tooo stooopid to know they are going to get screwed in the future
Posted on 06/05/2008 2:48:37 PM PDT by NCjim
Tonight, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education will discuss a proposal to change its grading policy.
The proposal states that 61 percent is the lowest numeric grade a student could receive if he or she gets an "F" letter grade. Currently, a zero is the lowest numerical grade a student can receive.
Fractions of points greater than 0.5 will be rounded up to the next whole number, the proposal says, and homework cannot count more than 20 percent of the quarterly grade.
"The district's [proposed] grading guidelines prohibit teachers from using grading practices that are punitive in nature or which make it difficult, if not impossible, to recover from isolated incidents of noncompliance (e.g. a missed homework assignment or one low grade on a test during a marking period)," according to the proposal document.
Teachers are angry at the proposed changes to the grading policy and are expected to turn out in droves tonight to protest it.
The Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. today at Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
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I wished they had this policy when I was not doing my homework :)
but the main thing is, the little darlings feel good about themselves... and are tooo stooopid to know they are going to get screwed in the future
Does Carrboro still have the communist/lesbian mayor? When I lived up there they did.
I suggest that the leaders of that “school” take a ride in a fighter plane piloted by a student who underwent such lib-O-standards throughout their life - to include - pilot training. Warning! Observers should stay at least 3 miles away from the runway.
I taught in the Dallas ISD from ‘92-’97. I wasn’t informed of the official district policy on grading the first 6 weeks, and as a result, every single child in my class failed when I did the grades (based on homework, classwork, and extra credit activities. Failing was to me making a grade below 70.
I went to my mentor because I was astonished at the class results, even though I had ‘given’ a few higher grades to some students because they had tried harder...I was immediately notified that I wasn’t allowed to give TRUE grades. The lowest grade I could give a child on any homework or classwork assignment was a 50% (even if they didn’t turn in ANYTHING) and if the child was special ed or ESL (the majority of ESL-English as a second language, were
hispanic illegal alien students) was 70% (again, even if they didn’t turn in ANYTHING.)
My whole class passed on this false grading system. I don’t know what the policy in the district is now.
I still feel dirty for encouraging/enabling these students into believing they were doing good by just showing up in my class and not doing a d@#$ thing to earn a decent grade. :-(
That's nearly always a sign something counterproductive is about to take place.
Yep - how dare anyone say to them “YOU FLUNKED”. You got a zero.....see you, same grade, next year. Might hurt their feelings and we wouldn’t want that.
Next year parents will be rioting about tests counting as at least 80% of the grade. Don't they know that poor little Johnny doesn't test goodly? Reduce tests to 20% of the grade too.
I think the Board of Education needs to do its homework before it forces this through.
Exactly why this Tar Heel sacrifices to have my children in private school.
i'd like to find the POS that started all this Self Esteem crap, then skin-em alive!!! makes me wonder what the future will be like sometimes...
This is an "I guess we should've seen this coming" ping.
Does anyone know why the school board is seeking these changes? I am assuming that many students are flunking and either the parents are threatening to sue or the “No Child Left Behind” program isn’t working and the district stands to lose money.
If you contrast this situation with the performance of students in private schools and those who are home schooled the premise of “The Bell Curve” is well illustrated.
“Does Carrboro still have the communist/lesbian mayor? When I lived up there they did.”
....probably....when my daughter lived there they had an annual “Gay Pride” festival that they always talked up as being for the whole community....in reality, nobody went to except homosexuals.
Notice the key word is DIFFICULT. Libs neither like nor appreciate the word DIFFICULT and when things do become DIFFICULT they change the rules to make it EASY. For example ...hard work to provide for your family is DIFFICULT so let's give entitlements so you will not have to work; so many politicians are getting caught in adulterous relationships making it DIFFICULT to hold the office or get reelected so we need to change the thinking on sex (according to Allen Dershowitz-liberal attorney)....moreover it is about their personal life; winning the war in Iraq is DIFFICULT so we need to quit, etc. etc. etc.
Two words: Dysgenic fertility.
Chapel Hill [or, more specifically, its sister town, "Carrboro"] has recently acquired a monstrously large illegal alien population [by college town standards] to go with a black population [residue of the antebellum south] which was itself traditionally at least 30% of the student body.
The really sad thing in a college town [or pair of towns] like Chapel Hill/Carrboro is that the blacks & aboriginal/mestizo hispanics are saddled with average IQs no higher than about 85 [i.e. average for their races - a good standard deviation or more lower than the white average], but because the white kids are the offspring of university professors and RTP professionals, they often have IQs which can be a standard deviation or more higher than the white average [i.e. up around 115, 120, and higher].
So you end up with this really perverse situation where the white kids are all prepping to go off the Ivy League and the black & hispanic kids are all dropping out in the 10th grade - which of course drives the Liberals insane, and so, being the reactionaries they are, they feel compelled to impose all sorts of artificial interventions so that they can at least paper over the catastrophe and/or sweep it under the rug.
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