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School board lowers passing from 70 to 60%
The Baltimore Sun
| 18 August 2006
| Edcoil
Posted on 08/18/2006 9:21:22 AM PDT by edcoil
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Moderator or others, I looked on the site but could not find the old links. Can a local in Maryland or the mod put that link up for me? Thanks.
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:21:25 AM PDT
by
edcoil
To: edcoil
Oh, they've entered into competition with the District of Columbia public schools in the race to dumb down.
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:22:56 AM PDT
by
3AngelaD
To: edcoil
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:23:28 AM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Nanny Statists are Ameba's.)
To: edcoil
That's nice.
Pretty soon the "graduates" won't be able to read the paper ...
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:24:22 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: edcoil
Homeschool is so-cool....
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:24:29 AM PDT
by
kimmie7
(Liberals embrace the sin......Christians embrace the sinner.)
To: edcoil
Pathetic. There has to be something done about our taxes paying for an "education" system that is totally defunct. Scrap it and privatize ie.
To: 3AngelaD
Maria Montessori taut mee too rite.
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:25:48 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("There is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
"Pretty soon"
Yesterday........when I was young.....
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:26:05 AM PDT
by
litehaus
To: edcoil
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:26:13 AM PDT
by
Fighting Irish
(Béagán agus a rá go maith)
To: edcoil
This is so unfair to the other 59%
To: edcoil
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:26:30 AM PDT
by
Cagey
To: edcoil
What the Bush Administration ought to do is legally define "rich" as any family earning more than $25,000 a year. Then, the President can go on TV and declare that under his adminsitration, virtually every American has become rich.
Of course, the media might complain about such sleight-of-hand.
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:26:53 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
( “I'm the Emperor, and I want dumplings!” (German: Ich bin der Kaiser und will Knödel.))
To: edcoil
Funny, I was just telling my kids yesterday how 60 was a passing grade in my public high school (25 years ago). But then it was raised to 70.
However, in our home, I expect 90 or above. Anything lower than 85, and we have extra work to do...
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:27:34 AM PDT
by
Tired of Taxes
(That's taxes, not Texas. I have no beef with TX. NJ has the highest property taxes in the nation.)
To: Fighting Irish
I knew some guys like that in high school. One is now the vice president of a bank and the other is on death row.
To: edcoil
This may be the link you're looking for... Mayor Martin O'Malley rallied yesterday to the defense of city school board members who lowered the passing grade for key subjects taught in Baltimore's schools, but the move drew criticism from several City Council members and a spokesman for Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
During an appearance at an East Baltimore middle school, O'Malley said lowering the minimum passing grade from 70 to 60 changed the grading scale, but it did not lower standards. He said the school board acted properly by aligning the city school system with others around the state that use 60 as the minimum passing grade. "We do not want standards lowered," O'Malley said.
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:29:17 AM PDT
by
Rio
(Don't make me come over there....)
To: edcoil
That makes 'teaching' a regular cakewalk. More money for administrators, more money for 'teachers' and LESS WORK for everyone. Super!
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:32:20 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: Rio
O'Malley dumbing down baltimore schools and want to be Governor. Not with my vote, Of course the Dummied down Baltimoreans and the dummied down Prince Georges County residents will love him.
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:32:23 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: edcoil
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:32:30 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: edcoil
What do you call the person that was DEAD LAST in his graduating class at Harvard Medical School?.....................Doctor............
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:34:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: All
Wow! That sorta makes me a C "+" student now? "A+" students are now A++?
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:34:43 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(If Bin Laden kidnapped Jimmy Carter, would you care?)
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