What a fraud.
Just graduate them and get it over with.
Boost entry into colleges (with fake grades).
What they really mean is they want those classroom chair emptied for the underclassmen to fill.
Move em in, Move em out!
Keep them Dogies movin!
Translation: Yes, let’s not be sure 12th graders are prepared to go to college. Let’s just not spoil their chances of them getting into college by giving them the poor grades they actually earned.
The dumbing down process in K12 has long been in the process. This is nothing more than another ‘cog’ in that dumbing down.
Looks like leftists can “fix” the issue with failing students the way they “fixed” the supply chain / container ship issue. Just hide it.
Just imagine how worthless a California-based college degree will be in 5-10 years.
University faculty should sign the useless things with crayons.
It’s no longer about education, but rather, the money that comes to you in the name of education.
New grading designations for the old D and F. D variant and Fauci variant. Coming soon to a school grading system, the Omicron variant for those who don’t show up for class.
Seems like a money grab so the uni’s can harvest a few years of tuition and coddle them along until they finally fail.
At some schools a grade of D is considered passing. Had a friend who was told this once by his son’s school. He replied “not to me.” Same here.
Why not stop all the dancing around and just make them all co-valedictorians? After all you wouldn’t want the low achievers to get their feelings hurt by rewarding those who worked harder or were smarter or both.
Even less incentive to try and learn.
Even the completely liberalized schools can’t deal with the disintegration of society.
Flunk them until they don’t fit in the desks, then send they home to work on the farm. It’s the way it’s always been done.
Back when I was an engineering manager before I retired, I used to get resumes from colleges and universities from all over and there were a few where I just trashed canned them.
THIS is probably a case where I’d be doing that for the whole state of California, I’m afraid because the higher level institutions will no doubt follow suit in some manner.
This is analogous to the shoplifting law there, in that both remove penalties for bad behavior, and will have similar effects on life in the Golden State.
I am against "grade-inflation" as much as anyone, and despise attempts (by school authorities, etc.) to dilute academic standards - but in the wake of a disruption of school instruction of this magnitude (as unjustified as it was), I am nonetheless inclined to give some of the weaker students a little slack.
Eliminating "Ds" and "Fs" might not be the optimal way - but some allowances (special summer programs, etc.) should be made.
I agree that it would be wrong to simply ignore there academic deficiencies and shuffle them all off to college.
Regards,
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