[Reverend Saltine]

[IronJack]

Moving in exactly the wrong direction. Eliminate all that fluff and those subjective evaluations and grade on a no-curve basis for English, Math, and Science. Make all the other junk pass/fail.

[rktman]

So, how mad would you get at your kid for failing his mandatory “voluntary” community service requirements in order to graduate? Used to be that people got sentenced to “community service” for smallish crimes. LOL!

[Menehune56]

I could maybe understand “attitude” but “gratitude”?? So wrong.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Be sure to give your teacher an apple, served up on one of these:

[CommerceComet]

Give me a high enough grade and I’ll give you gratitude. Is that how that works?

[MeganC]

We’re becoming the Soviet state where political commissars police our every thought and anyone exhibiting counter-revolutionary ideas is automatically determined to be mentally unfit.

We can absolutely expect these ridiculous measurements of children to be used to discriminate against children who express Christian, conservative, or American ideas.

The left are waging war against us. And like that ghoul Anders Breivik in Norway they’re starting their war by attacking our children first.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Where teachers once graded students [only] on traditional math or English skills, they now judge attributes such as grit, gratitude or being sensitive to others…"

Actually, way back in the 1950s and 1960s, my Catholic school report card had a category called "Deportment," which covered things like general behavior, cooperation, attention, and so forth.

Aren't those things important, and shouldn't parents be informed if their child is disrupting the class or engaging in some other negative behavior? Is that really "mind control"?

[defconw]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/18/more-public-schools-dish-_0_n_1286758.html

[Flick Lives]

“Grit”. Interesting word choice. It is the word Obama’s speech writers keep throwing into his speeches. Interesting the same, rather odd, word has found its way into the official curriculum. I’m sure it’s pure coincidence. Yup. Just a chance. Not orchestrated in the least. No siree.

[Nea Wood]

Schools now have to teach kids to be nice because it’s not taught at home, and/or people are not so religious anymore. Used to be, kids were taught by their parents and by Sunday school teachers to be nice. Kids’ TV shows also stressed this lesson. Now, you see kids in school acting like wild, foul-mouthed brats, and the parents side with the kids, not the teachers.

[Noumenon]

Gratitude = groveling to your government masters.

[GeronL]

Minus 5pts for being white and minus another 5 for being white male.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Hilarious! But, a big frightening, too. The forces of ignorance seem to be gathering power.

[AZLiberty]

I don't think school is a bad place to learn values. The point is, what values are you learning -- the values of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, or the values of Karl Marx and Barack Obama.

As the Federal Government assumes more and more control of the schools, it's the latter.