New data shows shift at Lowell High School: More students given failing grades after admissions change

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/25/2022 | By Ricardo Cano, Nanette Asimov

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Teachers at San Francisco’s Lowell High School gave freshman students significantly more D and F grades this past fall, the first semester after the school board eliminated the merit-based admissions it had relied on for decades.

The lower grades, while expected by many, are likely to become part of a fervid debate over Lowell that touches on race, equity and achievement. The grades raise questions about how students — and the school’s teachers and administrators — are adapting to the changes.

However, it’s unclear exactly how much the change in admissions policy factored into the rise in D’s and F’s among Lowell’s ninth-graders, compared with other possible factors such as the pandemic.

[Betty Jane]

I never understood why districts with multiple high schools didn’t this with more of them. One school takes the highest 400 or whatever number, another school takes the next highest scoring kids. Keep expanding the number of schools as long as there are kids willing to attend.

[MV=PY]

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[TornadoAlley3]

The blacktical solution.

[Captain Rhino]

Thanks for posting the article.

[kearnyirish2]

They are telling you why they don’t; they end up with real schools with Asian and white students and warehouses with black students.