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VA schools banning zeroes to avoid hurt feelings?
GOPUSA ^ | 27 Mar 2015 | Michael F. Haverluck

Posted on 03/27/2015 11:03:27 AM PDT by shove_it

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To: PATRIOT1876

The environmentalists won’t allow salt mines.


41 posted on 03/27/2015 12:12:46 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Portcall24

There is a Montgomery County in VA.


42 posted on 03/27/2015 12:12:54 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Mr. K

Fired from job after job? You have to get the job first and that isn’t likely to happen. Perhaps moving from prison to prison or work farm to work farm? “Wiping it off, Boss.” Maybe they could win the hard boiled egg contest?

Speaking of dumbing down, has anyone noticed that McDonald’s refers to a yoke as a “round?” If you order the egg white sandwich they refer to it as “no round.”


43 posted on 03/27/2015 12:16:22 PM PDT by rey
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To: KoRn

Bburg is pretty conservative for a college town.


44 posted on 03/27/2015 12:17:11 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: shove_it

I thought this was satire. No kidding. We are taking stupid to new depths.


45 posted on 03/27/2015 12:18:36 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: shove_it

25 years ago the HS principal tried to ban grades of 0. The idea was that a 50 is still failing, but can be recovered from. If after your first 0 you earn a 100, you still have a failing 50. The assumption was the student will be demoralized and defeated.

The plan was blocked by parents, teachers and student who think one should get what he earns, a disincentive to getting a 0 in the first place.


46 posted on 03/27/2015 12:21:25 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: shove_it

We can get very pathetic. About a decade ago, they banned using red pens to grade students’ work because it made students feel bad to see red on their papers. No joke.


47 posted on 03/27/2015 12:23:18 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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To: shove_it

I found that when child got a few zeros for failing to turn in homework assignments on time, and then I showed him how badly those hurt his grade average, he finally got the idea.


48 posted on 03/27/2015 12:27:33 PM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: shove_it

They banned 0bama?


49 posted on 03/27/2015 12:31:45 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: logi_cal869

PLEASE make it so!!


50 posted on 03/27/2015 12:40:29 PM PDT by shove_it (Communism is where everything is either mandatory or prohibited)
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To: ntnychik

my daughter, a former teacher now in Education Administration , and that is exactly how she explained it to me.
I’m on the fence.
I see the point of it. I don’t see the value of it.

I’d much rather see a teacher take 50 points away from a student who gets 100 and give them to a student that gets a 0.

Then watch everyone’s heads explode and hope someone “gets” it.


51 posted on 03/27/2015 1:41:38 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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To: AppyPappy

True, but they still vote for the libs by a pretty healthy margin, but as you stated, they ARE a college town. I call it the ‘Berkley’ of SW VA. lol


52 posted on 03/27/2015 2:16:23 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Uncle Miltie

“That’s racist. Arabs invented zero.”

The Arabs want the world to think that, but it isn’t true. It was invented at least 2000 years before Mad Mo took credit for inventing the world.


53 posted on 03/27/2015 2:37:34 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: KoRn

That would be Floyd.


54 posted on 03/27/2015 2:45:25 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: shove_it; KoRn

Thanks. Apologies. I guess I don’t know my adopted state as well as I thought.


55 posted on 03/27/2015 6:25:04 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: AppyPappy

lol That’s a great point.

Driving through the town of Floyd is about like Woodstock. The wife and I enjoy driving through there on a nice weekend day, just for the entertainment value. I’ve always heard there’s an actual ‘hippy’ commune somewhere around there. Could be an urban legend(rural legend in this case lol). Who knows.....


56 posted on 03/27/2015 8:50:11 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: shove_it
"VA schools banning zeroes to avoid hurt feelings?"


57 posted on 03/27/2015 9:10:15 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: KoRn

There used to be a Y2K commune called Rivendell in Floyd County. It disbanded after Y2K was a bust. Very conservative.


58 posted on 03/28/2015 5:13:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: shove_it; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

59 posted on 03/28/2015 4:51:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( _\\//)
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To: shove_it

I think it slipped by GOPUSA that they were talking about Montgomery County, MD, not Montgomery County, VA. But I’m sure most all our FReepers already perceived that distinction.


60 posted on 03/28/2015 4:57:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( _\\//)
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