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I’d love to know the history behind that school board policy.
I’m not sure, but my guess is they allow for some grace because if students decide to turn it around and start working hard after not doing their work they can eventually catch up. What’s the incentive of trying to turn your grades around if it’s impossible to do so? In those little black and white school rooms on the prairies of yesteryear that conservatives love to fetishize, wise teachers had similar policies to help those deserving students who finally grew up enough to realize that hard work pays. When you’re dealing with minors, you need to be a little more forgiving to past mistakes than you would be with adults because the goal is to get them to mature and develop into productive citizens.
Policies like this are exactly why we have so called "journalists" and bloggers that can't spell correctly or use proper English grammar anymore. It's rampant these days. Look at all the misspelled headlines and articles coming out as of late on the internet. It's a pet peeve of mine and I see several every day. It's embarrassing actually. This is just one example of the effects of policies like this, not to mention the complete lack of intelligence when discussing other things such as civics or money.
We're raising a bunch of soft people that we get destroyed once they enter the workforce and will end up on the couch talking with a shrink.
All those young people who are in college not sure of their major, should change to Psychology.
The snowflakes can use Christine Blasey Ford as their Role Model. Get that Psychology degree, don't show up for work while expecting a paycheck ..... And Then
Find their 'suppressed memory' of how the Boss raped them, attempted to rape them, attempted to kill them, organized a gang rape or "exposed himself" ...... proceed past GO and Cash In.
Works for the Leftists and will go into all training manuals.
Just to remind everyone, some of these school districts, especially low performing ones are under pressure to graduate students pretty much no matter what.
A number of them have been caught graduating illiterates, helping students cheat on tests to show district improvement and a host of other shenanigans.
Keep in mind that for the most part, the parents don't care, the students don't study and the teachers get blamed by everybody including the politicians....who are the ones that select the bosses of the teachers lol.
Often these policies are ironically touted as being anti-racist since minority students would be disproportionately impacted. The ugly truth is that they just make it easier to graduate minority kids with dismal reading, writing, math skills into a job market flooded with cheap illegal labor and a lifetime of struggling to make much more than minimum wage.
This policy is unfair to the students who bust their behinds and do the work. Why should someone get a grade if they haven't done the work? SMFH
This policy won't hurt those students. It's intended to just barely graduate the D students and push them out into society to be somebody elses problem.
This policy won't hurt those students. It's intended to just barely graduate the D students and push them out into society to be somebody elses problem.
EDIT - yep, I found it. The school changed the school board guidance.
*****NO ZERO’s- LOWEST POSSIBLE GRADE IS 50%
Stupid policy, and the school added it to the board's handbook policy for grading, but indeed, she did violate that handbook. She has no case, it is printed, in bold red lettering, in the handbook that is the official policy of her job. She committed the violation and got sacked. No harm, no foul. I stipulate.
Political digression - that amounts to curving and grade inflation to make failure less punitive. You get 50% credit for doing 0% work. Such an insidious introduction to the concept of entitlement and socialism.
No. The purpose of schooling people is to create a bright future for themselves.
Giving zeros amounts to being buried in credit card debt .
The student can never recover after even 1 zero in the grade book. It becomes " whats the point" which leads to drop out. Teachers are supposed to be creative in encouraging their students to improve and learn. Its not their job to punish them through surefire ways to fail them. Its lazy teaching and amounts to just taking a paycheck.
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Reason: Spelling ,phrasing
No. The purpose of schooling you people to create a bright future for themselves.
Giving zeros amounts to being buried in credit card debt .
The student can never recover after even 1 zero in the grade book. It becomes " whats the point" which leads to drop out. Teachets are supposed to be creative in encouraging their students to improve and learn. Its not their job to punish them through surefire ways to fail them. Its lazy teaching and amounts to just taking a paycheck.
So much entitlement and coddling in this quote, I am stuck for where to begin clowning it.
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