Posted on 08/18/2006 9:21:22 AM PDT by edcoil
The Baltimore school board this week lowered the passing grae from 70% down to 60%.
I was travelling to Baltimore this week and read the Sun Tues/Wed morning and read this article and how the hacks though it was wonderful but the parents were outraged due to the lack of public input and the lowering of standards.
Oh, they've entered into competition with the District of Columbia public schools in the race to dumb down.
WTF???
That's nice.
Pretty soon the "graduates" won't be able to read the paper ...
Homeschool is so-cool....
Pathetic. There has to be something done about our taxes paying for an "education" system that is totally defunct. Scrap it and privatize ie.
Maria Montessori taut mee too rite.
"Pretty soon"
This is so unfair to the other 59%
Here you go.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-te.md.promotion15aug15,0,1701987.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
Of course, the media might complain about such sleight-of-hand.
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...
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.
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.
That makes 'teaching' a regular cakewalk. More money for administrators, more money for 'teachers' and LESS WORK for everyone. Super!
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.
What do you call the person that was DEAD LAST in his graduating class at Harvard Medical School?.....................Doctor............
Wow! That sorta makes me a C "+" student now? "A+" students are now A++?
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