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San Diego Unified School District Changes Grading System to ‘Combat Racism'
NBC San Diego ^ | October 15, 2020 | Alexis Rivas

Posted on 10/16/2020 3:10:27 PM PDT by newzjunkey

Students will no longer be graded based on a yearly average, or on how late they turn in assignments. Those are just some of the major grading changes approved this week by California's second-largest school district.

The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is overhauling the way it grades students. Board members say the changes are part of a larger effort to combat racism... Academic grades will now focus on mastery of the material, not a yearly average, which board members say penalizes students who get a slow start, or who struggle at points throughout the year.

Another big change, teachers can no longer consider non-material factors when grading. Things like turning work in on time and classroom behavior will now instead count towards a student's citizenship grade, not their academic grade...

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcsandiego.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arth; education; publicschools; sandiego; sdusd
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Wow. This is what the education establishment in San Diego has settled on?

Not sorry I got out of Calif. It's very sad to see this about my old hometown.

1 posted on 10/16/2020 3:10:27 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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Academic grades will now focus on mastery of the material.

If that meant students could test out at the beginning of the term, I'd support it.

2 posted on 10/16/2020 3:11:56 PM PDT by Tax-chick (A society that rejects children will die out and be replaced by one that values them.)
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Why don’t they just fail 50% of the white students and call it a day.


3 posted on 10/16/2020 3:12:02 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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It appears white students are now the “Whipping Boy” for other’s failures.


4 posted on 10/16/2020 3:13:02 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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I can't imagine they'd go for that. Can't make $ without the kids being trapped in school, right?

They're also reviewing their zero-tolerance cheating policy

5 posted on 10/16/2020 3:14:18 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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Sorry to any teachers out there who do not fit this mold, but the “educators who run things are evil.

Not just people with bad ideas, but bad people with bad ideas.


6 posted on 10/16/2020 3:14:22 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
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Reading just what was posted, this sounds like a superb idea. Mastery of a subject is all that matters. Your either proficient or not. If it takes one year or two to conqueror calculus so what? As far as counting homework as citizenship even better. Today teachers deluge students with homework as a substitute for teaching.

In curious how did the decide to test for mastery?

Of cours now the teachers can slow walk a student through 20 years of school.


7 posted on 10/16/2020 3:16:03 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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Gezzuz...


8 posted on 10/16/2020 3:16:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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The Gang System ?


9 posted on 10/16/2020 3:16:41 PM PDT by butlerweave
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You get a diploma, and you get a diploma,...

10 posted on 10/16/2020 3:16:47 PM PDT by Intar
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Public schools are completely worthless.

Get your kids out if you don’t want indpctrinated libtard morons that believe they are incredibly smart and morally superior judges of all.


11 posted on 10/16/2020 3:17:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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San Diego Unified School District is the second largest school district in California and the second worst school district in California. Los Angeles Unified School District takes the prize as the worst school district the state. Sending your kids to those schools is child abuse. There are good private schools to chose from, but if you cannot afford the tuition you need to move to a better district just outside of the school district limits.


12 posted on 10/16/2020 3:17:57 PM PDT by forgotten man
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People need to wake up and pull their kids out of the govt. school system.


13 posted on 10/16/2020 3:17:58 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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Which is effectively racism


14 posted on 10/16/2020 3:19:02 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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These bored members have a lot of time on their hands.


15 posted on 10/16/2020 3:20:53 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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I don’t see why any student should do any work. It’s all slavery. Now THAT is woke.


16 posted on 10/16/2020 3:21:56 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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If Carlos sells meth for X dollars a gram and he pays Y dollars a gram, how many arrests will it take before a white cop kills him?


17 posted on 10/16/2020 3:22:20 PM PDT by pnut22
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Did they actually say “mastering”?
Racist.


18 posted on 10/16/2020 3:23:09 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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I guess they’re saying that certain races can’t get their work done on time and can’t behave in class. Sounds racist to me.


19 posted on 10/16/2020 3:24:27 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

LOL


20 posted on 10/16/2020 3:25:38 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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