[EinNYC]

A couple of things come out in this story that should both scare and enrage every parent who wants their child to get a good education. And that means honest grades, because what use are fake inflated grades when it comes right down to it? A momentary thrill of achievement that was no achievement at all? There is TREMENDOUS pressure on NYC teachers to have a very high percentage of their students pass. They will certainly be written up in disciplinary letters, be subjected to meetings with their principal, and have other manifestations of power shaken at them to intimidate them. And don't those kids know it! They know very well that the onus of their passing rests not on them (welcome to libtard Weirdoville!), as a logical mind might think, but on their teacher. It is the teacher's fault if the students, ignoring homework or project assignments, failing to study for tests, watching videos on their cell phone while the teacher is teaching, etc. fail to come up with a composite number the teacher can legitimately pass them with. Teachers who give too many failing grades, no matter the reason, are then on the "S" list of administrators. If they continue to be honest, the administrators will then start to compile a paper trail of documentation to bring the teacher up on some fake charges in order to terminate them. It is never difficult to find some revengeful students all too willing to go along with this, coached intently by the vindictive administrator, who WANTS their $15,000 bonus for good grade stats. They will sit down and collaborate on a story that the teacher used "inappropriate language", "made them feel bad in class", "touched them inappropriately", etc. If you then would ask the students what half the words in their startlingly similar statements mean, they would give you a blank look for an answer. For of course, the administrators practically dictated their statements for them.

As for the statement in this story that the administrator has to put in a WRITTEN notification to teachers that they are changing grades, that's a tall pile of bovine feces. The first notice that teachers have that the grades they submitted to the principal have been changed is seeing the report cards when they hand them out, with resultant seething anger and feeling of helplessness. No longer is the teacher the master of their classroom. They are a rubber ball tossed up, back and forth, between the empowered students and the sleazy administration.

The statements attributed to the NYC Department of Education (DOE) in this article are LIES.

[AndyJackson]

It is not just a nit to point out that the abbreviation for the Department of Education is ED or DoED. DOE is the Department of Energy, a separate and distinct US gov. boondoggle.

[Bullish]

Liberals have destroyed education.

[fwdude]

They’ve been doing this for decades. I know, because I tutored for remedial students in math during college. I had to teach them arithmetic.

[loveliberty2]

Teachers' unions have, for years, robbed children and their parents by protecting inferior and unqualified teachers by allowing them to occupy the classrooms all over America.

The improvement of learning performance of children should be the yardstick by which a teacher is measured. Good teachers will prefer that measurement of their classroom's success or failure. Bad and unqualified teachers will rebel and revolt.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Unbelievable.

Back in my day, there were a few kids I remember who were held back, and flunked. One kid flunked 2nd grade. Another flunked 4th grade and had to repeat.

To say they flunked is probably not politically correct language nowadays. But that’s what we all called it.

I remember we were, in a way, afraid of our teachers, afraid of discipline if we didn’t do homework, afraid of getting a bad grade, afraid of the teacher, afraid of what our parents would do if we got bad grades, or got in trouble at school.

Times have changed. Have they really changed for the better, when you hear things like this out of New York schools? I’m sure the same thing happens elsewhere too.

[Leaning Right]

This has been going on in my neck of the woods for a long, long time. And maybe 1% of the changes were justified. Example: A teacher I worked with simply refused to give any A’s in an Honors Biology class. I knew many of those kids. The teacher was wrong, and the principal had to step in.

As for the other 99% of the cases, grades were changed to make athletes eligible for sports, and grades were changed to raise our graduation rates. All very hush, hush.