Posted on 10/01/2021 5:00:26 PM PDT by grundle
The system, announced during the 2021-22 school year, does not include 0-49.9 percentiles for students
A YouTube video posted by Sunrise Park Middle School in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, details a new grading scale that lacks the letter "F."
The system, announced during the 2021-22 school year, does not include 0-49.9 percentiles for students.
"Our whole intent is to ensure that grades focus on the process of learning," Principal Christina Pierre said in the video. "Therefore, grades will not include behaviors, attitude, tardiness to class, whether the assignment was turned in late or on time. There's other ways that we can communicate those things to parents."
Associate Principal Norman Bell went on to elaborate that students are encouraged to retake/revise tests, quizzes, papers, projects and have a 10-day window to do so from the date the grade is posted.
Sunrise Park Middle School serves students in grades sixth through eighth in the White Bear Lake Area Schools, ISD 624. It is located in a suburb of St. Paul.
Fox News reached out to the district to see if the grading scale would be implemented at middle schools district wide, which only includes one additional campus, but has yet to hear back.
The district's superintendent, Wayne Kazmierczak, was named Minnesota Association of School Administrators 2021 Superintendent of the Year.
The school website discussing the award details how the district conducted an "equity audit," which showed grading disparities among students of color.
"Grading can be one of the largest areas in which systemic racism and inequities are perpetuated... grades should be a measure of what a student knows and has mastered in a given course. Grading should not be a behavior punishment and should not be a measure of how well a student can survive stress at home,"
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Yeah, just pass them along.
That’ll improve their lives.
Tell me how it works out when they graduate without math skills, reading skills, and any ability to reason.
I have nothing to do with the story.
I am asking a legitimate question of the parties involved.
If only there was a bell curve distribution of IQ that you could use to identify students who might be incapable of learning certain subjects.
...where all the children are above average.
I suppose there are also other ways to communicate proper grammar to the students than using it, Christina. You get an F.
With many of today’s kids, making an F is a high bar to reach.
Won’t that make a D the new F? When I was in school, we didn’t have F’s. We had E’s. The bottom of the heap by any other name would smell as bad.
The other problem is that the blacks are “living up” to their own low expectations.
Gibbs-me-dats will never go far in life.
That’s racist...
Science, QED.
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations. Well, at least Bush II was right about one thing.
Wait a minute, without Fs, how are these kids going to learn to spell _uck?
Worry not my friends. When the red states secede do you think the dumb kids are gonna move to the red states where there’s no welfare? They’ll be able to come in as guest workers with no benefits. Will they report the income? Phat chance. Heh heh.
That’s OK, 0-59.9 is an F also. BITD when I went to school, a D started at 60% a C at 70%, a B at 80%, and an A at 90%.
49% means you belong in trade school or special Ed.
39% means you can become a famous climate activist.
Wayne needs an F tattooed on his very big forehead
Exactly what I thought
Most inner city students deserve far less than F’s for the amount of effort they give and the school work they don’t produce. But then, the so-called teachers deserve f’s and pink slips.
Hurting and not helping black students
What they are saying is incredibly racist
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