Posted on 04/27/2009 9:40:46 AM PDT by Joiseydude
What's a kid gotta do to get an "F" these days?
At a growing number of middle schools and high schools across the country, students no longer receive failing marks when they fail. Instead, they get an "H" — for "held" — on their report cards, and they're given a chance to rectify their poor performance without tanking the entire semester.
Educators in schools from Costa Mesa, Calif., to Maynard, Mass., are also employing a policy known in school hallways as ZAP — or "Zeros Aren't Permitted" — which gives students an opportunity to finish the homework they neglected to do on time
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So the dummies have higher GPA’s when they drop out. Big whoop.
Lower the bar and people will strive to reach it.
These students who have no incentive to get a passing grade are the very ones Obama will use to makeup for the shortage in healthcare professionals and doctors.
This will be a great stimulus for the litigation profession.
That depends on if they are taught anything worth learning.
I got a daughter, 18, graduating high scool with almost a 4.0 gpa. Every single college entrance exam she takes ranks her ineligible to take college level classes and the college is forcing her to take high school level catch up courses for big $$$ in the fall.
When the scool gives out A’s, a student thinks she doesn’t have to work any harder.
My daughter is another casualty in the failed education system. If her dad holds the high school accountable and keeps her out for let’s say 8 days, they should deny her graduation based on attendance issues and make her stay for another year. She will hate and never talk to her dad again. At 18 actually, I can’t force anything.
Well this is one way to kill off a civilization. Eventually no one will know how anything works and those who bother to strive for a better life will just give up!
This works in the real world too. Most fast food managers (which is who these losers will work for) don't mind at all if you don't get around to taking orders from customers in line, or if you don't bother cooking the food that people order. You can always get around to the work another day, when the mood is right.
When I went to high school we were given percentage grades. If you earned a 2, that’s what you got. And the teachers weren’t bashful about it either.
Is this a trick question?
Amen to that.
We are developing into the Eloi prophesied by H.G. Wells.
I tell my kids, that I expect them to be way ahead of the class, because they only teach to the lowest common denominator.
My wife left nursing to home school our son and he came up 5 reading levels (Tested by Standards) in one year.
Note: The same school system said he would never go to college.
After moving to Cherokee County Georgia he enrolled in the ROTC program and through that into Valley Forge Military College and graduated with a degree in Criminal Justice.
Folks, if you are in a "No Fail" state or county, get your kids out as soon as possible. It's your responsibility and their future is at stake. The Liberals/Progressives don't want your kids to read. Leave NOW!
Does that sound helpful to you?
I am speaking to the article author, not you.
The Universtiy of WA Law school, is now a NO FAIL program.
They have abandoned the study of precedent, in favor of a sort of on the job training, where the students write reports of what goes on in court and are graded on that. The lowest grade that a student can get is a B+.
I was told this by a young student at the law school. She has yet to pass the bar exam, though. She now says that she doesn’t really need it to do civil rights law or work in Indian Court.
As a person who used to hire people, I know that the no-fail policies are a disaster.
It brings a person into the working world with absolutely no incentive to do well or to find their potential.
They have been indoctrinated with the idea that they CANNOT fail at ANYTHING and they are a nightmare and totally useless for an employer.
I was interviewing candidates for a payroll assistant job: Inputting names, soc sec #’s, and other data.
One candidate interviewed and stated on her application that she had attended 3 (THREE!!) business schools.
Not only was her handwriting completely awful-—she spelled business wrong in 4 different places on her application.
I rejected her.
Her “handler” who was a head hunter called right after her departure, and couldn’t understand why I had rejected the applicant.
The head hunter could not understand why spelling was a mandatory requirement on payroll records!!
I told the woman that I sincerely hoped that all the paperwork of her entire working life was correctly filled out so that when she retired and asked for her social security, there would be no problems with lost data.
She just didn’t get it, and neither did the applicant.
That was years ago, and it has only gotten worse. Today’s employee thinks that because he/she has a cell phone or blackberry, that that allows them to spend their time at the job using those items.
They have abandoned the study of precedent, in favor of a sort of on the job training”””
Isn’t the fact that the Oval Office is occupied by a person who is precticing ‘on the job training’ enough of a sample of the disaster this country is facing?
We are heading for the old Feudal system where the royals didn’t want the sers to have any education.
I was told this by a young student at the law school. She has yet to pass the bar exam, though. She now says that she doesn’t really need it to do civil rights law or work in Indian Court.”
The Indians get screwed once again by the white man.......
Just the opposite here in Southern Illinois (rural) I’m amazed at how tough it is to get an “A” When I was in school it was 90% or better on a paper or test. My ten year old twins are required to get a 95% or better. And the slightest defect can cost you that 5%.
I’m happy about it though, tougher is always better in the long run.
Just become an illegitimate TPOTUS!
I believe this is done so that we can’t evaluate the teachers.
There probably is a way to get an “F” in such a grading regime.
Dipute global warming/anthropogenic climate change.
Objectively compare free markets with socialism.
Point out how multiculturalism is an oppressive system emphasize collective thought over the individual
She now says that she doesn’t really need it to do civil rights law or work in Indian Court.Or be a 'Community Organizer' I bet...
Hey, the Indians don’t need to hire her. Besides, she’s an Hispanic white person, an affirmative action student.
If your daughter doesn’t do well on standardized college entrance exam, try a SAT prep class. Many students don’t do well on these types of tests. You actually have to learn how to take them successfully sometimes.
It may be the school, but there is a chance that she may be prepared for college, but just not good at these types of tests. My daughter has major test anxiety and we had to put her into one of those test prep courses. It raised her SAT score by 300 points.
The motto is, Aim for mediocrity, it's only fair.
Or the Idiocracy prophesied by Mike Judge
Whats a lowest common denominator?
Whatever it takes so that no student feels bad. Can't shame people into actually trying to study harder, don'cha know.
Some kids are just losers, and no matter how much attention/tutoring they are given, will never learn the lessons presented. I personally think it would be better if we just got them out into society so they could begin training in the field they will be relegated to for the rest of their life: flipping burgers.
Wasting time and effort does nothing except cost taxpayer money and create a poor learning environment for children who can, and are willing to absorb the material. Give it an “X”, pass it to the next grade, and process the unit. If the unit is defective, its quality control statement (GPA) will indicate it as such, and further refinement (College) will be skipped. The world needs ditch diggers too.
Of course the joke would be these idiots that are being churned out by the “everyone gets a trophy” schools finally figure out that a sense of entitlement and a handful of tears mean you get to vote in the biggest embarrassment of a president the US has ever seen.
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