Posted on 02/28/2019 5:10:01 AM PST by Altura Ct.
The bar for failing test scores in North Carolina’s state public schools may be significantly lowered under proposed new legislation.
House Bill 145, introduced by the North Carolina General Assembly last Thursday, proposes to base grades on a 15- rather than a 10-point scale. In other words, an F grade would constitute anything below a 40 percent score — much lower than the 60 percent mark that is the norm in North Carolina and most other states, WPLG reported.
Under the new scale system, an A would be 100 to 85 percent, a B would be 84 to 70 percent, a C would be 69 to 55 percent, and a D would be 54 percent to 40 percent, according to the bill.
The scale system would not affect students who are already performing well. But students who are underperforming in school will be allowed to continue. If passed, the law will go into effect beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, according to the bill.
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I’m sure the Chinese and Koreans are doing this too. /s/
In the future, Im guessing the best use for a N.C. high School diploma would be cleaning your arse after a runny bowel movement.
Trophies for everyone.
This is what public education is about now. Steering clear of any accountability for students.
For a second there I thought it said they were dropping the “F” bomb. I might pay to see that!
Public schools aren’t about teaching math, history, and science. They’re about teaching “social hygene” or indoctrination of the elites’ socio-political values.
If they do that they should reduce the teachers pay by an equal percentage.
North Carolina.. Ask people in that state if they would agree to a scoring system in basketball in which if you are within 10 points of the other team at the end of the game, you win, and if you are within 25 points, it’s a tie.
So if you score a measly 40 out of 100 in all your test, you will be promoted to the next level?
Would you want to visit a doctor or dentist that only scored a 40 in all his medical school test?
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
So, what’s the difference between an “F” and the “grade that must not be named?”
To the lowest common denominator...
That is one helluva way to run a railroad...
Wait till they get to college on AA program.
Back in the 90s I saw a tv commercial about contemporary public education with a school child running around a track. He was jumping over hurdles that were mere 6 or 7 inches high and doing it with ease. The commercial likened those hurdles to modern education, viz. lowering educational demands to whatever school children were willing to do.
Then the narrator talked about the real world. The real world is going to make real demands of these spoiled brats, and the brats will fail.
The kid in the commercial then came upon real hurdles (the ~3 foot variety) and he just stood there. He didn't know what to do.
Good commercial. The point was that we're not doing our children any favors by making their education easy.
This makes all of the sense in the world if your gooberment wants the people it is supposed to serve to remain ignorant.
An F is below 70%, you useless indoctrinators.
No wonder Millennials are so incredibly stupid.
I remember an episode of “Welcome Back, Kotter” in which Mr. Woodman mentioned to the Sweathogs that there had been recent discussing about giving out “G”s for that very bad schoolwork.
My Daughter’s high school was on a 7.5 point scale. (A: 93+, B: 85-92, etc). Oh how she used to complain about that!
Teachers’ jobs will get that much easier. Why teach at all if no one has to learn? Dumasses.
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