Post of the day. By this logic, the general standard of every, but every young world citizen will rise and continue to rise in the future - and all diseases and shortages and pain and sorrow will be gone by 2525. Or so I’m told.
In a related decision, beginning this year, DISD athletic teams will only count wins thus ensuring every team an undefeated season.
Though many claim Bush’s No Child Left Behind act to be a disaster and a liberal program, embedded in it is accountability. What all this dancing around is about is to boost their performance rating to either keep or gain back federal funds lost because of NCLB.
Unfortunately, this is a typical liberal response to a problem. And liberals run the majority of big cities in the country.
As a former prosecutor turned teacher I feel confident saying that “effort based grading” will lead to an increase in an already huge criminal case backlog in our judicial system.
And also: if I were at that school, I would make sure that I would score max. points for the first exam (A, or 10, whatever)... and by sheer logic I would never have to do anything anymore in my whole school career (except turning up, perhaps).
I envy the sheer inventiveness of America. Really, I do.
So a student who knows how to game the system, studies hard, very hard, for their first test and gets a 100%. From then on, they can turn in minimal homework and not lower their GPA?
•Teachers must accept overdue assignments, and their principal will decide whether students are to be penalized for missing deadlines.
•Students who flunk tests can retake the exam and keep the higher grade.
•Teachers cannot give a zero on an assignment unless they call parents and make "efforts to assist students in completing the work."
The DISD administration has been off the deep end for some time now. But this just shows that they've somehow found an even deeper abyss to fall into.
So why don’t they just do away with grading. Everyone get’s an A if they show up, most of the time, when they feel like it.
In New Mexico we came up with a far more creative way of reducing our dropout rate. The democrat controlled legislature passed a law increasing the minimum dropout age to eighteen and in a separate law established that if a student earns a GED in the first year after dropping out then that student is counted as successfully completing K-12 education and is not a dropout.
Oy. I need a headache powder.
Sorry all. Forgot to add the comment that this is an update with more details about the Dallas school thing that I pinged earlier. It’s not just a re-ping.
Yeah, but will the child feel good about the whole thing. That's what it's all about now. Feelings.
Someone please remind me to ask if the professionals that serve me (doctors, attorneys, pilots, etc.) are "graduates" of the DISD school system.
thanks for the ping :)
I love articles like this and think they should be forwarded and distributed as much as possible. Because as sure as I’m sitting here, at least one parent is reading this, saying the practice described is completely idiotic, and is deciding to pull their kids out of the government schools.
No Child Left Behind....in the government schools.
Is this the wonderful “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing? ( sarc)
The government school defenders will get ***really** mad at me and say I am spamming **BUT** it needs to be said AGAIN:
Nearly *all* the pathologic “socialization” that kids learn in government prison-like schools *must* be unlearned if as an adult they are to have success in the workplace, marriage, the neighborhood, with in-laws, etc.
So?....How long will it take for a young adult graduating from high school to learn that there is **NO** such thing as “effort based grading” in the workplace!
This would have got me out of some trouble when in freshman health in high school. We were required to answer about 50 question a week and turn them in to be checked. The teacher would glance at them and mark it completed with out reading most of the work. Sometimes I would try to enhance my creative writing skills which at times would lead to a less that fully accurate answer being given. I was finally caught, I guess she read more of the answers than I thought. She read one of my pieces to the class and made redo do the papers she had not returned yet. I was doing well on the tests so I guess I got off easy. I usually wrote a much longer answer when I was taking poetic license. Maybe that;s what tipped her off. But you could not say I didn't put any effort in the work.