Posted on 05/29/2021 3:56:57 PM PDT by blam
A new grading policy, put forth by the Baltimore City School Board, Tuesday, will allow students who are struggling and failing classes to move up to the next grade level due to the virus pandemic, according to local news Fox 45.
Instead of holding back students, Baltimore City Public School System’s (BCPSS) new grading policy will push up struggling students who failed classes during the pandemic and have their educational status tested during the fall semester to determine what skills they missed during virtual learning classes.
Chief Academic Officer Joan Dabrowski said the new policy is intended to “avoid the punitive approach of failing students.”
“This is not about a failure, but it is about unfinished learning and giving multiple opportunities, multiple onramps for young people to complete that … learning,” BCPSS CEO Sonja Santelises said.
High school students will have their failing grades swapped out for a “No Credit,” and for lower schools, a “Fail” will be replaced with “Not Completed.”
About 78,000 students are enrolled across the metro area. More than 65% of students in secondary schools and 50% of Elementary Schools failed at least one class.
Fox 45’s investigative arm, “Project Baltimore,” has spent several years investigating BCPSS corrupt school system. Grade-rigging has been well known before the pandemic, but now it’s out in the open. At least now, school officials can deflect their failures on the pandemic.
Earlier this year, we pointed out how a high school student who almost graduated near the top half of his class failed almost every class. There have been attendance issues, such as attendance at high schools dropping to a 13-year low. More than a dozen schools have zero students proficient in math.
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Now I know.
In college I suffered ‘unfinished learning’ in Russian. Actually I got a D, so that might count as ‘nearly unfinished learning’.
Lacey Underall was kind of cute....
Holding back failing students give them a chance to rebound and recover (at least sometimes). Advancing them makes their situation worse as they are asked to perform in more advanced classes while lacking basics. They just keep falling more behind and became more desperate.
This does not give them any favor!
Maybe because the teachers are racists?
A receding tide lowers all boats.
A new grading policy, put forth by the Baltimore City School Board, Tuesday, will allow students who are struggling and failing classes to move up to the next grade level due to the virus pandemic, according to local news Fox 45.
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Students and school board. Dumb. and dumber.
“Well, the world needs ditch diggers too.”
I know you meant that as joke, but the fact is the ditch diggers will be Hondurans and Guatemalans. There will be no place for these people.
He said that he had a lot of Arab prima donna's who pay a lot of money to the college.
“Holding back failing students give them a chance to rebound and recover (at least sometimes).”
Their is no “rebound and recovery” for the demographics in this article. Holding them back will only result in a bunch of 19 year old 7th graders.
Advancing them makes their situation worse as they are asked to perform in more advanced classes while lacking basics.Nah, they'll just dumb-down expectations of the next level.
Not “Failing” a student, because it might hurt his precious “self-esteem” is about as stupid and as short-sighted as you can get, even by liberal standards.
What do you imagine getting fired from every job you manage to get, not being able to manage your checking account, understand the terms of buying a home, or being able to even apply for Welfare, is going to do to their self-esteem for THE REST OF THEIR LIFE?
Like I tell the kids, when you play a game and win; you didn’t learn a thing. But, when you fail, this is a chance to learn what you did wrong. Life is full of learning opportunities if you just open your eyes.
Many of my Christian friends who went to New Orleans to help after Katrina said their time was mostly wasted sitting around filling out FEMA papers for people who couldn't read or write so that they could get free FEMA stuff.
So in other words, after the “grading scandal,” all they’re doing is making it official policy.
Everybody wins, everybody gets a trophy.
A friend of mine held her son out of school to keep him from complaining during Covid and let him play Fortnite instead. She just posted that he will be held back a grade and she is distraught.
She’s a HUGE Trump hater.
Yeah tbey don’t want to do that hard work, or live on that wage.
They didn’t care to educate themselves when they were supposed to. Why is everyone else supposed to care more about them than they care about themselves?
A friend of mine just wasted the last year attempting to teach students in Baltimore schools just to be spit upon by the idiots in charge.
My first thought while reading the articles title was that this was about contractors taking shortcuts to make more money on engineering projects. Then I got to the schools part. Seems like there is a symbiosis.
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