Posted on 05/30/2022 8:01:05 AM PDT by grundle
San Francisco’s elite Lowell High School is seeing a record number of failing grades in its fall 2021 class – the first admitted through a new lottery system over its merit-based admissions process
San Francisco’s Lowell High School is seeing a record number of failing grades in its fall 2021 class – the first admitted through a new lottery system over its merit-based admissions process.
Of the 620 students in Lowell’s freshman class, 24.4% received at least D or F in their first semester, according to internal records obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
This is almost triple the number of the first-year students in the two years before – 7.9% in fall 2020 and 7.7% in fall 2019. The Chronicle notes that fall 2020 was also the first full semester of remote learning.
The fall 2021 class was chosen primarily based on a lottery instead of a decades-old merit-based system based on test scores and grades, bringing it in line with almost every other high school in the city.
Those who supported the new lottery said the merit-based system was racist because it resulted in an underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic students, reports Asian American news site Nextshark.
Its opponents said it would undermine the academic competitiveness that made Lowell successful and harm Asians, who make up the majority of the school’s student body.
According to district data, Lowell’s number of ninth-graders with a D or F is now closer to numbers at other high schools in the city.
The outgoing Lowell principal, Joe Ryan Dominguez, said that “there are way too many variables that contributed” to the spike in D’s and F’s.
“Over a year of distance learning, half of our student body new to in-person instruction at the high school level and absences among students/staff for COVID all explain this dip in performance,” said Dominguez wrote in an email to the Chronicle.
“It is important not to insinuate a cause on such a sensitive topic at the risk of shaming our students and teachers who have worked very hard in a difficult year.”
Dominguez announced his resignation last month citing a lack of “well organized systems, fiscal responsibility and sound instructional practices as the path towards equity.”
San Francisco recently voted out three school board members for prioritizing social justice over reopening schools.
Lower standards equals lower performance. It’s not rocket science.
The education industry will drop grading systems altogether rather than face the truth.
Obviously step 2 needs to be changed.
This is all OK...They’ll just forget the grading system and give all the kids “A”s...That way it shows how the school has “equity” down pat...
I recall reading about how getting a failing grade could earn a student the strap or the cane.
Now where’s that “I’m shocked” meme?
The education industry will drop grading systems altogether rather than face the truth.
I’ve said it before on these kinds of threads. Eventually, they’ll just give diplomas like Oz gave Scarecrow. There will be no-work jobs at woke corporations for them, too.
No one fails college. No one. Put your name on a paper or test and get a D-, a passing grade.
unreported was the racial breakdown of the 24%
Teachers making sure the kids don’t get smarter then the teacher or as they call it progressive teaching.
Grades are SSOOOOOO racisss’!
The NBA should change to a lottery system. It would handle the racial imbalance.
That's pretty much what the libtards running NYC schools have done for years. That's the libtard solution to any failures...get rid of the standards that could not be passed. Bingo! Everyone passes. Great grade stats. Spewing thousands of illiterate morons into the workforce to fail, so they can turn to crime and drugs.
Wait until these poorer students begin trashing their over achieving classmates for their success. The good students are likely to submit to the peer pressure and begin to take their studies less seriously.
Ds and Fs are racist, so you can bet that there will be an announcement that they are dropping Ds and Fs or maybe just go to a no grade system so everyone passes.
Why keep the standards for grading if you're not keeping them for admissions?
Pass the uneducated on to employers and let them deal with it. That's the Leftist way.
Remember, if there’s a disparity among racial groups, that is evidence the system is racist.
Clearly, the solution is to eliminate grades altogether so there is equity./s
Next step: Dumb down the grading system. It’s time to eliminate those ugly D and F grades.,Do no homework, answer no questions on any test or quiz and miss half your classes and you get a C.
Inevitable.
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