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The San Francisco Unified School District will not be moving forward with a controversial equity grading strategy that was proposed this week after significant backlash. The strategy, known as "Grading for Equity," was presented during a SFUSD Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, according to Superintendent Maria Su, with the goal of offering "professional development opportunity in standards-based grading." Under the proposed standards, how a student scores on the final exam, which could be taken multiple times, would be what counts toward their grade for the semester, according to the Voice of San Francisco.

Liberals in San Francisco, the epicenter of progressive ideology, just received a sharp and swift rebuke over their latest destructive education idea: “Grading for Equity.” The ferocity and tenor of the backlash – which came from both sides of the political aisle – is a revealing vignette into Democrat dysfunction. The equity grading plan, quietly introduced by San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su late last month, sought to dismantle traditional academic grading in district high schools and replace it with a system designed not to reward effort and achievement but to conceal failure. Specifically, schools would do away...