Posted on 11/10/2021 4:26:57 AM PST by outpostinmass2
frustrated because what you signed up for was for students to learn. And it just ended up being a conversation about points all the time.”
These days, the Alhambra High School English teacher has done away with points entirely. He no longer gives students homework and gives them multiple opportunities to improve essays and classwork. The goal is to base grades on what students are learning, and remove behavior, deadlines and how much work they do from the equation.
The changes Moreno embraced are part of a growing trend in which educators are moving away from traditional point-driven grading systems, aiming to close large academic gaps among racial, ethnic and economic groups. The trend was accelerated by the pandemic and school closures that caused troubling increases in Ds and Fs across the country and by calls to examine the role of institutionalized racism in schools in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer.
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All the students are flunking. What are we to do?
Teach better?
Or change the grading system?
You know what they chose to do.
Well maybe if they stopped trying to indoctrinate them into communism and CRT every second of every minute and focused more on math, reading, science, history, they might actually learn something.
We will have a generation - or generations - of functionally illiterate.
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Cheers…. Hoot
The audacity of blaming pandemic school closures on failing grades when the teachers and administrators were clamoring for the closures.
They start out young with good intentions....like politicians....it's about survival at any cost.
"We the Children" are not in the equation.
That is correct. But the “old way” of grading wasn’t that students had such high averages early in the term that they knew they didn’t have to submit good work later in the year!
We already do.
Literacy is a hot topic for college English instructors now because so many students are functionally illiterate.
Attendance is mandatory.
Attendance is the entirety ofthe grade.
PubSchools simply track “showing up”.
In a sane world, the headline would read:
“Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the new way of teaching”
Many of our current problems start with our expensive and ineffective academic system. It MUST be fixed. Reeducation camps for staff, perhaps? (That was a joke, but now that I wrote it down...hmmm...)
Let’s Go Brandon!
Which will ensure our nation’s demise.
At this one school, homework is assigned, quizes are given and the occasional larger test.
This year, homework does not count towards the course grade.
Quizes do not count towards the course grade.
Only the occasional large tests count.
Result?
Students are demotivated to do homework and quiz prep.
So they do worse on the occasional big tests.
Oh, and despite a homework assignment needing 2 or 3 hours to do, students are instructed that they only need to do 15 minutes of any homework assignment.
Any wonder students are less motivated and grades suffer?
And this at a “Christian” school...talked to administrators...like talking to a wall that listens and ignores.
We already have that. They're call "Demonicrat voters."
Oh, and instead of the carrot of making homework/assignments be say, 30% of the course grade (but now worth nothing), the stick of after school “friday school” detention is used.
So the student misses the bus home and the parent has to drive there, pick up the student, and drive home.
In my case...I have about 1.5 hours driving thus.
MVCS in Watsonville, CA.
Why teach math when you can just outsource it to the Chinese?
You can probably make the case (at least in urbanized schools) that if you tested 100 kids already by the end of 4th grade, at least 10-percent are still performing at the 2nd grade level, and probably 20-percent still performing at the 3rd grade level.
Do the math, and by the 10th grade....more than half aren’t anywhere near the 10th grade level. There’s virtually no reason to keep that half of the group in school....ship them to some trade school. Our chief problem is that the kids can never make up ‘lost ground’. Paying surplus teachers to pretend this is idiotic.
I’ll even say this from high school graduation in 1977...probably 10-percent of the kids in my group were marginally reading at the 8th grade level, and hopelessly lost on any math problems. It’s not a new trend....it’s been going on for decades.
All by design.
I went to HS in the 1950’s, graduated in 1960. A HS ed ucation back then is or was in my opinion producing better educated and prepared students then any college produces today, and it isn’t even close.
And it wasn’t just book learning either. We learned responsibility and were held accountable for things we did. Teachers were respected and actually feared, not because we believed they would physically harm us but because of what would happen to us if we were disrespectful to them.
There was no worse feeling than that of being handed a note to bring home containing a “request” for a parent to come to the school for a meeting with the Principal or Guidance Counselor. And there was never any doubt the folks would believe the school over what the student told his folks happened.
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