Posted on 03/10/2010 10:03:39 AM PST by reaganrevolutionin2010
Last school year at struggling Hyde Park Academy High, more than 2,000 grades were boosted at least one notch — including more than 870 F’s that were changed to passing marks, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows.
And this school year, blanket A’s were ordered issued to all students of five new Hyde Park teachers after the students suffered through a string of substitute teachers for most of the first quarter, a letter obtained by the Sun-Times shows.
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...complaints from dozens of teachers that their grades were changed last school year without their approval.(snip)...pressure to goose up grades is “part of the culture’’ at Hyde Park, a school on academic probation where the number of freshmen and senior F’s can help trigger federal sanctions or even closure.
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By and large, publik skools are producing a generation of useful idiots.
Great post and comment! BTTT!
That is the best they can be.
It also has to do with maintaining funding, No child Left Behind incentivizes, more than ever, grade inflation and false attendance records.
It’s the bigotry of low expectations.
I thought NCLB was based on uniform testing. Not so?
Is this the ursurper’s old neighborhood school where his girls would be going?
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Nice that my daughter, in private school, has to compete for college admissions with the artifically-inflated GPAs of the government schoolers.
The girls went to a private school sponsored by the University of Chicago. Probably had something to do with Michelle’s employment there.
Teachers who can't teach choose to coach students on the contents of the NCLB tests. Some even cheat on the actual testing process to hide their own incompetence. Attendance records are falsified because the school receives funds based on the number of warm butts in the seats. Grades are inflated to make the underachievers "feel good" in spite of their actual lack of achievement. We're raising a generation of naked emperors.
NCLB is in part based on uniform testing. But not all.
I see the government bail out now extends to grades in elementary school.
Same message: hard work and playing by the rules is for suckers.
Just checked google maps. The school is 2.3 miles from Hussein and Mo’s house so it is their neighborhood school.
Assuming she gets admitted, the bloom is off the rose about 2 weeks into the first term in college. The underachievers can't compete and drop like flies. The college profs and their TAs aren't interested in whether students are "left behind". They are happy to see the class size shrink to a reasonable level to finish the term (quarter or semester). I routinely started with 65 students during the first two weeks of class. By the 3rd week, the class was down to 35. The folks who didn't belong would drop before there was a financial/GPA consequence to remaining in a class they were not capable of finishing.
The students in the college situation are there voluntarily. They are screened (somewhat) for capability. Many are fiercely competitive with sights set on medical school or other professional objectives. The students aren't going to back off the competitive aspect either. It's not anything like a government K-12 with mandated attendance, union teachers and government mandated curricula.
Don’t you just love this “Everybody Gets A Trophy” America?
Isn’t this former home of the current leader of the Federal Education Dept?
Isn’t this former home of the current leader of the Federal Education Dept?
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