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VA schools banning zeroes to avoid hurt feelings?
GOPUSA ^
| 27 Mar 2015
| Michael F. Haverluck
Posted on 03/27/2015 11:03:27 AM PDT by shove_it
Even though Virginia is one of only a few states not having to deal with the alleged "dumbing down" of the controversial Common Core, many parents statewide are now concerned with the proposed ban on zeroes from the classroom so that students' feelings aren't hurt.
A Closer Look"Protecting" students from knowing about their subpar performance is different from school to school.
"[Students cannot receive a score lower than 50 percent] unless they did not actually do the assignment or put in effort to do it," Montgomery County Public Schools spokesperson Dana Tofig told The Washington Post....
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Testing; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: commoncore; education; maryland; virginia
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How pathetic can we get?
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:03:27 AM PDT
by
shove_it
To: shove_it
Imagine the hurt feelings he will get when he is fired from job after job
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:06:12 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
To: shove_it
as stupid as making sure every kid gets an award on awards day.
To: shove_it
"EDJUMACATORS"
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:06:41 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: shove_it
Why not just toss kids into the salt mines to work and avoid all the slow destruction of the country that the Leftists have in store for these poor kids that will lead them to economic misery in the end?
To: shove_it
That’s racist. Arabs invented zero.
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:07:59 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
To: shove_it
Kids catch on real quick. Everyone will know that the dummies are now getting 50s instead of 0s. Just more nonsense. God forbid we actual measure achievement against each other.
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:09:22 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Uncle Miltie
And we got one in the White House.
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:09:38 AM PDT
by
shove_it
(Communism is where everything is either mandatory or prohibited)
To: shove_it
In the minds of VA students 50% now equals ZERO. What kind of liberal scientific modeling came to this conclusion? This must be the obvious end result of Common Core.
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:10:05 AM PDT
by
immadashell
(The inmates are running the asylum.)
To: shove_it
Should someone who tried to do the work but got every question wrong be scored the same as someone who just blew it off and didn’t do anything at all?
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:10:39 AM PDT
by
jdege
To: shove_it
hell, just ban school days, incase someone’s feelings might get hurt by going to school
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:10:54 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: shove_it
So, you can’t have $100 anymore, Only $1?
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:13:17 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: Doogle
Face-Palm Kitty is so awesome!
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:13:55 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: shove_it
That is pretty ridiculous
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:14:20 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: shove_it
They already do that here. My teen told me...I was.also told, secretly, by a teacher that they weren’t supposed to fail Hispanic students.
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:15:09 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
To: shove_it
I think they mean Montgomery County Maryland, not Virginia
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:15:16 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
[[I was.also told, secretly, by a teacher that they weren’t supposed to fail Hispanic students.]]
So they are beign bribed/coerced into passing kids that might fail based on ethnicity? Golly, that’s gotta be legal
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:17:13 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: shove_it
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:17:45 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: shove_it
It’s clear someone flunked their geography lesson. Montgomery County is in Maryland, not Virginia. The WACompost only hires the best and brightest.
To: Bob434
Can they ban the 0 in the White House?
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posted on
03/27/2015 11:18:52 AM PDT
by
TonyM
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