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I'm glad the "pc" hasn't moved from the classrooms to the sports teams.
It absolutely has. What do you call giving every kid a trophy whether they win or lose? What do you call games with no goalies, no keeping score, mercy rules?
And of course this is about being PC, because the point is so that no one's feelings are hurt.
It's moronic. Real life is about striving and achieving, not fairness and getting rewarded for sub-par performances. Oh, wait...that _is_ part of the liberal agenda.
I don't see how this is a PC or a liberal mindset exactly.
A stupid mindset, perhaps? Absolutely.
The principles which drive these kinds of policies in the classroom are identical to the principles which drive most progressive agendas. Certainly you can correlate the two.
Do you have a link for this story? What grade was this? That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard; when I was in high school those who excelled in academics were acknowledged just as often as those who excelled in athletics or the arts…I never heard of a “team concept” when it comes to learning.
Teacher broke law by posting top test scores | StarTribune.com If I'm understanding the article correctly, it breaks state law to make the actual grade public without permission. The teacher could have just listed the top ten and not broken state privacy laws.
It absolutely has. What do you call giving every kid a trophy whether they win or lose? What do you call games with no goalies, no keeping score, mercy rules?
And of course this is about being PC, because the point is so that no one's feelings are hurt.
It's moronic. Real life is about striving and achieving, not fairness and getting rewarded for sub-par performances. Oh, wait...that _is_ part of the liberal agenda.
I agree.
I received the first part of my education in the proudly militant DC public school system. Nonetheless, a theme that was taught over and over was that life was not fair and indeed it was a jungle where you had better work your tail off.
Teacher broke law by posting top test scores | StarTribune.com If I'm understanding the article correctly, it breaks state law to make the actual grade public without permission. The teacher could have just listed the top ten and not broken state privacy laws.
Fine! Allow the parents of these achievers to be permitted to disclose this type of information by a signed agreement. The school is merely assuming that privacy is breached for any of these achievers. But it's this kind of school bureaucracy crap is what makes it amazingly difficult for our research group to investigate ways to improve education by conducting studies.
If one reads the article, it also states that many teachers think the ---advisory group--who stated it broke state laws were carrying it to an extreme.
This was not a ruling by a judge, but by an---"advisory group "
If one reads the article, it also states that many teachers think the ---advisory group--who stated it broke state laws were carrying it to an extreme.
This was not a ruling by a judge, but by an---"advisory group "
Probably an advisory group comprised of intolerant liberals
Teacher broke law by posting top test scores | StarTribune.com If I'm understanding the article correctly, it breaks state law to make the actual grade public without permission. The teacher could have just listed the top ten and not broken state privacy laws.
Oh well I can understand that. I've never actually had my grade posted where everybody could see it - when I was in grade school we had "Superstars" board and you just got gold stars for high grades so while it was clear who didn't get high grades we actually never knew what grades the other students had (unless they told us, which usually happens anyway)
In high school, at the end of every quarter those with a 3.0 GPA or higher were invited to campus pizza/movie party the last two hours of school so everybody knew if you weren't there your GPA wasn't 3.0 but we didn't know if it was 2.8 or 1.6.
As a parent, I can see a concern for this because kids can be cruel. You can praise the top achievers without letting everyone else know whose failing the class.
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