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No more zeros: New grading policy in place at Kansas City Public Schools
CBS News Local ^ | August 19, 2024 | By Sharon Chen

Posted on 08/20/2024 6:02:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Typically, a student who finishes zero schoolwork should expect zero for a grade. But that is not the case anymore in Kansas City Public Schools.

For the 2023-24 school year, the school district district launched a new grading system, the “no zero policy.” Essentially, the minimum grade on any given assignment is 40%, even if the student didn’t do the assignment. The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up.

KCPS declined an interview but shared a video announcement from chief academic officer Dr. Latanya Franklin sent to parents. She explained discussions and work to improve the KCPS grading policy began in the fall of 2021. She said a new grading method has now adjusted the failing grade: from 0 to 59 percent, to 40 to 59 percent. The new system reflects non-Montessori students in grades K through 12.

“These changes intend to reduce the adverse effects of zeroes on students’ grades, emphasizing growth and progress support and intervention and authentic learning and equity,” Franklin said in the video statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at kctv5.com ...


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KEYWORDS: arth; culturewar; education; governmentschools; grades
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“KCPS understands some of the negative thoughts around the policy, we believe it more accurately reflects a student’s work throughout a grading term. It’s about properly evaluating where a student is in their academic journey, which isn’t really reflected accurately when a couple of zeros throw the average off-balance. But we understand others may not always see it that way.”

- Shain Bergan, Public Relations Coordinator KCPS

1 posted on 08/20/2024 6:02:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Under “equity” zero is not zero.

This is classic Orwell!


2 posted on 08/20/2024 6:03:37 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

US of FUBAR


3 posted on 08/20/2024 6:03:52 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

article:

“zeros throw the average off-balance”

Follow the science.

Lol.


4 posted on 08/20/2024 6:05:25 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“chief academic officer Dr. Latanya Franklin”

Good grief. Shocking.


5 posted on 08/20/2024 6:07:55 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Flush twice. Biden is a particularly big turd.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Absolute nonsense. When you find a good student struggling, give them extra credit work and help them to catch up. They will learn many life lessons in the process.


6 posted on 08/20/2024 6:08:30 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sort of how it works for the dims. Only they start with a minimum grade of 80%.


7 posted on 08/20/2024 6:09:33 AM PDT by Leep (Re-elect deep state. 2024!)
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even if the student didn’t do the assignment.

The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up.

I don't think "struggling" means what they think it means.

8 posted on 08/20/2024 6:12:01 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“no zero policy.”

Does that mean no mention of Obama?


9 posted on 08/20/2024 6:12:21 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course, equity.

Then again, we’ve had a floor of 400 points on the SAT (and other similar floors for similar tests) for decades—though never those 400 points for failing to show up.


10 posted on 08/20/2024 6:15:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: pgyanke

Funny story—I went to a fancy prep school.

I was terrible at foreign languages—just awful.

They made me take one and I heard through the grapevine that French was the easiest to learn.

So I took French.

The teacher got totally frustrated with me and finally one day blurted out my name and said “you are awful at this. You will never learn this language.”

I was totally humiliated.

I hated French so much that I studied hard enough to pass the Advanced Placement exam so I didn’t have to take it in college.

:-)


11 posted on 08/20/2024 6:16:53 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“emphasizing growth and progress support and intervention and authentic learning and equity”

It takes years of college to vomit up something so stupid, vapid, and meaningless. Only a sophisticated intellectual can be so so stupid.


12 posted on 08/20/2024 6:20:58 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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“...it will make a more equitable grade”

It’s all about equity, making everyone “equal”. Now where have we heard that before?

It’s the commie way, after all. Giving something to someone that didn’t earn it (the takers, the users) while diminishing what someone that did earn something and thereby taking away from someone that did make an effort (the producers) is how commies roll.

You have to diminish what some of the masses produce in order to raise up the nothingness that others refuse to even try to produce. And since trying to make the non-producers care about producing is just never gonna happen... why even pretend that you care to do that. Most of the teachers today couldn’t inspire anyone else, since they, themselves, are not and never have been “inspired”. They’re just drawing a paycheck for ‘not’ teaching.

So Kansas is making it official. Others will follow suit. The commies are winning this “culture war”. Especially since almost nobody on our side has been ‘in’ that war, that they know of. The producers have yet to wake the hell up to reality. But if the left steals the next election as well.... the lovely dream that the ones supposedly on our side has been having will, no doubt, come to a swift crashing, crushing end. The commies will waste no time finishing the job of “fundamentally transforming” Amerikka.


13 posted on 08/20/2024 6:25:33 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s all about the federal $$$$$$$.


14 posted on 08/20/2024 6:31:20 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The American film director and comedian Woody Allen once said, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”


15 posted on 08/20/2024 6:33:49 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up.

If the "student" does zero work on the assignment, he's neither "struggling" nor is he trying to "catch up." And if the teachers (who, in today's educational climate, are barely smarter than the above student) gift him a 40% grade (for zero) work, 40% is all he'll ever do. And that's still failing.

Go ahead and give him a zero with a clear conscience.

16 posted on 08/20/2024 6:43:33 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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“The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up.”

I wonder to WHICH struggling students they are referring?


17 posted on 08/20/2024 7:01:09 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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which isn’t really reflected accurately when a couple of zeros throw the average off-balance

Including all the non-work zeros is by definition accurate.

18 posted on 08/20/2024 7:08:24 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: cgbg

Interesting story. I agree humiliation or shaming works.

Similarly, a teacher swatting a misbehaving kid on the hand with a ruler worked too.

Those days are loooooong gone. The kids keep getting dumber and dumber. The problem kids end up being criminals. And we keep finding new solutions that only worsen the problems.


19 posted on 08/20/2024 7:19:10 AM PDT by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Essentially, the minimum grade on any given assignment is 40%, even if the student didn’t do the assignment. The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up.

This shows the heart of our problems with our education system that students can now believe that 2+2=5 and still pass.

20 posted on 08/20/2024 7:24:47 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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