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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White and Asian kids don’t fail classes?? Only blacks??
Even Helen Keller would be like, “No thanks.”
Just shut down the schools. What’s the point.
“So are they saying blacks are too stupid to earn good grades?”
If that is what the school administration is saying, then they are raciest of the first order. That statement is a good description of racism.
These people are white supremacists - what else are they? You lower the standards with the argument to justify it being that only whites can achieve the prior standards and blacks can’t?
What an insult.
And they are deliberately not teaching children how to be responsible, meet deadlines, etc. Things essential for successful adulthood and lives. Completely discarding the purpose of an education.
It is, and it's always been about the horrible behavior of certain kids. We're trying to teach kids that can't even really speak or write the English language and don't want any part in learning it. Oh, and then you have the one's who only speak Spanish too.
Don’t teach them to read, Keep them on the Plantation
UCK This!
At first I thought they were referring to the word that starts with “F”.
“So are they saying blacks are too stupid to earn good grades?”
That’s just the latest... They’re too stupid to get an ID card, too stupid to find a voting booth, too stupid to buy healthy food...
Simple.just don’t show up for a class you didn’t like……as one of my sons did back in the 70s. 😊
Is that the ‘tard from Coach with Craig T Nelson?
The science fiction story The Marching Morons by C.M.Kornbluth had to do with few highly intelligent people having children and many low IQ people having lots of children. Frederik Pohl criticized his friend’s story for being “bad science.” However, whatever got us here we are in that world today.
To protect the dumb people he car speedometers said 50-100-150 mph while cars were controlled by governors that actually only let them go 15 or 20 tops. And so on. Smart people had to tolerate and protect the dumb majority from harm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
How’s that African space program going?
See Europe, see Africa.
While the IQ distribution amongst a demographic will always be greater than between demographics, the norm, for certain demographics, is obviously lower.
Aside from IQ, there seems to be a significant discrepancy with respect to impulse control.
Them people r stupid, and we wanna keep em that way.
This is why American kids are stupid compared to many other countries. What a waste of time and money.
And don’t forget...Math is very Racist.
WOW!! It's Lake Woebegone come to life because all the children are TRULY AVOVE AVERAGE. It's no surprise this is in Minnesota.
IQ is definitely a factor.
However, strong cultural norms (work ethic, respect for others, etc.) could overcome a significant part of the IQ issues.
The problem is that the cultural norms are working in exactly the wrong direction today.
Rd later.
Many blacks in this country suffer from the latter.
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