- Shain Bergan, Public Relations Coordinator KCPS
Under “equity” zero is not zero.
This is classic Orwell!
US of FUBAR
article:
“zeros throw the average off-balance”
Follow the science.
Lol.
“chief academic officer Dr. Latanya Franklin”
Good grief. Shocking.
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.
Sort of how it works for the dims. Only they start with a minimum grade of 80%.
The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up.
I don't think "struggling" means what they think it means.
“no zero policy.”
Does that mean no mention of Obama?
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.
“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.
“...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.
It’s all about the federal $$$$$$$.
The American film director and comedian Woody Allen once said, “Eighty percent of success is showing 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.
“The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up.”
I wonder to WHICH struggling students they are referring?
Including all the non-work zeros is by definition accurate.
This shows the heart of our problems with our education system that students can now believe that 2+2=5 and still pass.
Throwing a zero into the balance can be a great wake up call not to fluff off the work.
And if you say 2+2=5 that gets you 100%.
This is to pass along kids who fail and/or have massive, unexcused absences (a lot of them these day) - there are so many of them they need to keep moving them through the system and this is how they’re doing it.
When the “chickens come home to roost” - it will all be blamed on “systemic racism.”