Here is the genius author of this numbskull edict:
Here is the genius author of this numbskull edict:
What utter insanity. If I knew that my homework didn’t count, guess how much homework I would do?
Maryland really is a freak state.
This reads like it is a parody from The Onion. If this article is real, why don’t they just give everybody an A and not bother with having them show up at all. Think of all the money they could save by not having physical schools. Of course, they would still have to pay the teachers, no matter what.
As a teacher, I would have turned in my resignation the same day. Shame on anyone who would work for a fool and districts that hire them.
“Community Superintendent for Zone 2 George Roberts says low marks can damage a student’s feeling of self-potential.”
Great. Another generation of “safe space” dwellers.
MacKeeson now works for this school system.
I’m not so sure it’s that bad of an idea. If the child’s grade is only based on content tests, it will accurately measure whether or not the child mastered the material.
That does not mean there is no discipline in the classroom, only that a child’s academic achievement will not be diluted by personality issues. Ditto for homework. If the child has mastered the information, why do the homework?
There are a lot of factors at play, but it may be getting away from using the schools for social engineering and returning to the actual purpose of education: Passing on to each generation the knowledge gleaned from previous generations. Isn’t that the idea. . .to allow them to stand on the shoulders of giants instead of having to develop everything from scratch?
Whenever you lower standards, you lower results.
Meanwhile folks in China and India keep on studying.
The freak looks like a typical freakazoidal “educator”. What a nitwit.
When the Zombie Apocalypse comes, these students, who will be adults, will become my food.
LOL
Can you imagine teaching a room full of kids with IQs of 85 who get no negative feedback when they act out like animals.
I think this is great. I think you are wrong. I want performance graded not how well someone sucks up to the teacher.
What do they grade on? Skin tone and proper PC thought?
What happens when the students figure out that 50 out of 100 is really the new 0 out of 50? Will they say no marks below 75%
-PJ
I know there is some debate about the value of homework. As a teacher, I assigned homework nearly every day and counted it as 50% of the final grade. I did this to encourage the not-so bright but potentially hard-working students who might not do so well on tests. The “real world” is a whole lot more like homework—IMHO—than it is like tests. How many tests does one take after leaving school? But daily assignments are a part of working life, even if most jobs don’t require you to take them home.
The dreaded 0 can gut your final grade if you make a habit of getting them. Most learned to not get them. I was a hard grader. When kids finally started to get what I was about and their grades improved, their pride in their accomplishments was real.
How does one learn to hold a job and become successful if not performing what is required is ignored?
Do papers and projects figure in as homework?
This is very much like the “experts” who advised teachers not to use red pens when grading papers or tests, because when students saw a lot of the red color on their papers, it was damaging to their emotional well-being. So, if I miss 10 out of 20 on my test, I won’t feel as bad if the teacher used a green pen to indicate my errors instead of a red one. Yeah, I can see that...
“Education”, even at the college level, has become a participation trophy. If you are there, try at all, turn in even the worst assignments, it is guaranteed you will pass with at least a ‘C’.
YUP; that will really be a big help to those students in the real working world.
That will turn them into truly dedicated democrat voters.