Posted on 09/19/2021 3:49:31 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The scariest part about the devastating report into cheating at Maspeth High School is how the Department of Education has responded to such scandals.
The biggest issue, to them, is not that Maspeth’s principal graduated students who didn’t pass classes. Or that students were fed answers to tests. It’s that grades and tests even exist.
According to texts acquired by investigators, the administrator writes: “What’s worse, her thinking she can’t do it or that’s she’s smart?”
In short: The DOE wants to take what Maspeth did and make it policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
"Those who say that all cultures are equal never explain why the results of those cultures are so grossly unequal." Thomas Sowell
Look up Maspeth High School—there is only one with that name. Go to their website. They claim to be the NYC Classical School, because they’re so much into the classics. The BS is layered quite deep. And then we find out that at Maspeth, everyone passes wether of not classes are even attended.
Sure, why not apply it to the kids? The “Maspeth Minimum” has obviously been used as the DOE and educational hiring standard for years now.
—”The “Maspeth Minimum” has obviously been used as the DOE and educational hiring standard for years now.”
If that is so...
The USA should focus the educational system on teaching Chinese.
To appease our new masters.
Bad news everyone. Principals everywhere are doing this. They change grades, forge teacher signatures, have kids in n fake classes, out them in APex and give them the answers. They usually get not get caught from attentive teachers willing to report (bc they will lose their job) or the NCAA clearing house catch them, or kids report it and parents complain.
The testing and grading system is so corrupt it would seem there is room for a private and ethical testing system to enter the market and provide aptitude and intelligence scores on individual students to families, schools, and colleges.
Now they have an explanation. Critical Race Theory. The answer is: Racism!
Cultures have unequal outcomes, not because of superstition, lack of education, reliance on magical thinking, or primitive technology, but because of racism!
Not only that, but only one kind of racism, racism by white people who do not even know they are being racist!
Unschooling vs Deschooling are a couple of homeschooling techniques.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=unschooling+vs+deschooling
Deschooling is deprogramming what they learned in public school. Unschooling is letting the child learn whatever they want with very little guidance and of course, no grading or tests. Hippy schooling is what it’s also been called.
We just applied that standard to a Presidential Election. Why not for everyone?
in a sane world, this would be considered racist and actionable against the school for providing sub-standard education and fraud on the taxpayers...
here, they want to make it policy???
—”actionable against the school for providing sub-standard education and fraud on the taxpayers..”
Collusion between the school and union to milk the taxpayers.
100% RICO...
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To be a teacher, one must pass the PPST (basically a high school level test for Reading, Writing and Arithmetic).
Many teachers spoke of the difficulty of the test that should have been relatively easy for a high school graduate and child's play for a college graduate.
Scary.
Thanks for sharing that. I was blessed with really talented teachers (grades 1 to 12), graduating in 1982. Today, anecdotally, the few teachers I now know are frighteningly naive and dopey. We hear a lot about home schooling on these threads, but while my home taught niece and nephews got a fantastic Christian education, they are severely lacking in exposure to too many other academic areas.
I just don’t know how parents do it!
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