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
Are they saying their students have some genetic deficiency that prevents them from learning the complexities of elementary math?
Having spent six months living in Bayonne (six months of my life that I want back), can’t say I’m surprised. Bayonne is one of the few places I know of where you have white people living in the projects. Did you know there is also a trailer park in town?
Keeps them stupid and makes for great Democrat voters.
I wonder whether they’ve also watered down the exams as well as the grading scale. There is something more honest about keeping rigorous exams and lowering the passing bar than watering down the exams.
One of my favorite stories from grad school as the University of Pennsylvanai was the professor who returned exams in an undergraduate course — this was in a course only math majors took — and announced the curve on which a 65% was an A(!) One of the students protested that 65% was terrible, and the professor replied, “When you’re doing math for real, your doing well if you’re right 1% of the time!”
Alas, I suspect in the Bayonne government-run schools the exams have been watered down to the point they no longer serve as even a distant warm up for doing math for real.
>> Bayonne public school officials have decided to lower the passing grade in all classes from 70 to 65 as part of a three-year pilot program.
At end the end of the pilot program, they’ll proudly declare success.
Here’s a “unique challenge”: teach the kids, dammit. Instead of brainwashing them and showing proper condom techniques and pushing gay math on them.
Liberals believe that lowering standards is the path to excellence.
In other words: Don’t raise the bridge, lower the water.