Posted on 06/27/2011 1:00:45 PM PDT by Freemarkets101
Beginning July 1, homework will officially be considered a racist form of grading in the Los Angeles Unified School District. How the hell is homework racist, you ask? According to the Los Angeles Times, the racial make-up and urban geographic of certain students can make homework a discriminatory way of grading for some students over others.
The Blaze reported:
“Beginning July 1, 2011, homework assignments will comprise no more than 10% of a student’s academic achievement grade,” a memo issued last month states. It goes on to lay out the reasoning: “It is unfair to penalize or reward students for their home academic environment. While some students do not have the opportunity to do homework while away from school thus failing to return assignments, for others, it is difficult to be sure that it was the student who actually did the work.”
Even further, the policy states that grades should not be “based on the routes which students take towards mastery, nor their behavior, attitude, effort, or attendance.” Seems like they might as well just throw out the whole grading system altogether.
So while American students severely lag behind their international counterparts, California is going to lower the responsibility and accountability for students to perform academically. God forbid we hurt some poor kid's feelings - or should we say, motivate him or her to learn and find success in their future career.
What's next, banning dodgeball? Oh wait, they've already done that too.
Way to accelerate decline, Los Angeles - it’s not like being able to think is ever more important to being employable, or anything, is it?
Woot! The further dumbing-down of our educational system continues, courtesy of parts of lametard idiot-ridden California. =.=
I hated homework. If I was going to be forced to go to school, they should’ve taught me everything on school time and gave me time to do schoolwork on school time. It’s been 30 years since I graduated from high school and the thought of doing homework still makes me cringe.
While some students do not have the opportunity to do homework while away from school thus failing to return assignments
So lets fix this socio-economic problem by dumbing down school even further and making our kids even more unemployable! Wooohooo! Stay classy, Los Angeles!
Jaime Escalante, may he rest in peace, must be rolling in his grave. Talk about catering to the lowest common denominator. Not that your typical LA student even knows what an LCD is.
-PJ
This is amusing. As long as they grade primarily on some form of achievement... like tests, then I’m OK with it. The reason that homework should be given is to help cement the content to be learned. Therefore, if the homework is a means to this end, whether it is done or not will turn up in the test results, whether or not it is handed in.
Now, if the next step is considering the test results discriminatory, and substituting life experience, then I have a problem.
Yet, the teachers unions want us to throw yet more money their way.
These dumbasses measure racism and equality by outcome of results, instead of by equality of opportunity.
Gangbanging 101 is a Work Experience class anyway, so actually there’s no loss.
The END can not be far away!
This policy merely reflects the underlying brain capacity of most Los Angeles students.
Homey don’t do homework, chump! Wuh chew lookin’ at?
What was that Cheech Marin sang in one of the C&C movies?
“Mexican-Americans,
want an easy grade,
So they take Spanish,
And get a D .”
Yo, man.. whatchu doin' dat homework fo'? You actin' white?
Hey what about Asian students are they going be exempt from homework too that what LA Times article imply it
Hey what about Asian students are they going be exempt from homework too that what LA Times article imply it
Hey what about Asian students are they going be exempt from homework too that what LA Times article imply it
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