Posted on 09/16/2009 11:20:41 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
Seattle Public Schools may do away with a nearly decade-old requirement that all students earn a C average to graduate, and an even-older policy that athletes maintain a C average to play on school teams. If the School Board approves recommendations endorsed by Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, as well as most district high-school principals and counselors, a D average will be good enough to earn a high-school diploma. Student athletes would need to pass five of six classes with D grades or better. District officials understand there are concerns about relaxing standards at a time when everyone from President Obama on down is pushing for higher expectations for U.S. students. And when surveyed by the district last year, a majority of Seattle parents and students preferred to keep the C-average requirement. But district officials, who plan to talk about the proposal at a School Board meeting tonight, insist they're not watering down expectations, and the change would mirror what most other districts require.
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“What then?...30 years at the car wash?”
Or ACORN loan specialist.
Forward towards a degree in education.
Exactly....Just what the left wants!....an uneducated bunch of village idiots!....
I am not sure that I want my car washed by someone who barely gets Ds in high school.
So....in other words, a diploma from a Seattle school won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on. Potential employers beware!
Yeah.
Very bad idea.
Yeah!! That’s the way to improve the educational standards of the dumbed down masses - LOWER the requirements!!!
SHEESH! What ever happened to actually TEACHING children and expecting them to LEARN in order to improve their life???
No wonder zero got so mant votes!!
If you can fog this mirror you can graduate!
So much for ‘setting high standards’ and ‘exceptionalism’.
It would be racist not to because most of the failing were Black.
A liberal sliding grade scale helping to dumb down what is left of America. I see more government employees are being trained.
Nah, in Seattle Patty Murray could hire one for her Chief of Staff and learn something from them.
Next stop....breaking and entering.
The newest government program: “Diplomas for Obama Voters!”
“Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson,”
....perfect Lefty name in the perfect Lefty city in the perfect Lefty state.
Patty Murray makes anyone with a D average look good....
That's a little too stringent - at least in Chicago. The true purpose of school systems such as these is to produce reliable Democrat voters and we shouldn't discriminate against the biologically inactive.
LOL! Thanks. A little levity is so needed today.
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