Good reason for yanking your kids and putting them in a private school.
When I was in high school, a long time ago, we had a failing grade of 68, which was an E. if you got an E (from 60-68) you had the option of going to summer school, below 60 was an F and you had to take the whole course over.
I remember when the Village People were “big” that Saturday Night Live did a skit on “In the Navy” called “Port of Call: Bayonne, New Jersey”. Bayonne has been the butt of many jokes over the years. Now Bayonne is making itself into an even bigger joke.
I suspect the next step is too issue two coupons on birth certificates, one becomes a driver’s license in 16 years and the other a high school diploma in 17-1/2 years.
“We have very high expectations and standards for each one of our students,”
I guess it’s all in how one defines “High”.
The dumber these kids are when they become adults the better for the liberals to get their vote..
“...sensitive to the unique challenges...”
Translation: We have to lower the bar so enough blacks can pass!
Sure to GOD these people don’t think they’re KIDDING anybody!
The dumber these kids are when they become adults the better for the liberals to get their vote..
FTA: “Success leads to more success”
What does “fake success” lead to?
Did you write this, John?
Make it -1- and you'll have "success" all over the place ...
Math is a progressive endeavor.
You take simple, intermediate, and more complex courses, until you have attained your goal.
What chance do you have to become proficient in the higher courses, if you only get 66% right in the foundational courses?
Shouldn’t professional educators know this?
I’d rather see a kid held over a year or even three, and then graduated with sufficient skills to get them through life. We are graduating kids today, that will be a burden on society for their entire lives.
It’s getting to the place having a high school diploma means nothing. Getting? It’s already there isn’t it.
“If the kids are trying it’s not fair that they can’t meet a number standard,” she said.
Try telling that to your boss when you grow up and see how that works out for you.
Or the IRS. I sent in a few dollars, but it’s not fair if I can’t meet a “number standard.”
They probably get 50 points just for showing up half the year.
IF “success leads to more success” why not lower to 50. They you’ll have even more success leading to ever more success.
Heck lower it to zero have the maximum amount of success possible.
Bayonne, NJ produced Barney Frank, how could it get worse?!
Calling failure success does not make it success.
But relabeling failure as success doesn't really make it success.
Don't we already have more than enough illiterate college graduates?
However, we must be sensitive to the unique challenges they face. What do you say to idiotic things like this. High paid baby sitters while thier parents trudge through the day at the social service office gathering foodstamps, welfare, social security, disability and a host of obama candy. A new generation of idiots passed on by high paid idiots with direction from the federal idiots in lew of education candy