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As a side note, almost all of the responses on this thread seem to be from white folks. Where are our 2 experts on the Chitlin' Culture? Surely they can enlighten us...
This is another knee jerk, blame others movement that accomplishes absolutely NOTHING. These kids graduate from junior high and high school because their grades are modified and nobody flunks out. But once they graduate, then what? They are no longer wrapped in the warm blanket of the liberal school boards and teachers and soon must face the reality of becoming an adult and contributing to society. What will these new Rhoades Scholars do when they are so ill equipped? But wait.....I graduated with a 3.5 GPA? Doesn't that count for anything? Newflash…..it doesn't.
Problem solved right? Another stroke of liberal genius to the rescue. The kids fail in society but wait, the school board and the teachers feel great because of all the high grades and low dropout rates. Does anybody else see the tragedy here?
Ready, fire, aim.
Plans like this create a two prong problem for the macro economy. First, the true lower performer gets jobs over the higher performer. At the macro level this means lower productivity and innovation aka lower economic growth. Second, the higher performer does not have an incentive to perform so some of them will not perform. This has the same negative impact on the economy.
Grades might matter as far as trying to get in/apply to a college but grades won't mean squat come time to write a paper or even an answer on a test. Same for a job. Grades might get one a job but it's the education that actually help them do the job.
Grades and an actual education/learning something are two different things and not necessarily interchangeable.
Is this real life and not a movie?????? Only in Chicago. As the OP said, the geniuses doing this aren’t even smart enough to realize the hypocrisy that implementing this is actually racist. It’s saying that blacks aren’t smart enough, so we are going to grade them differently to help them out.
How this got approved is beyond me. No wonder Chicago has so many problems……
*Edit: the school is technically not in Chicago as the title says, although the city still has a ton of problems lol. Also, someone posted a link to the school announcement saying this story is false. Let’s hope so.
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The only thing it will do is make administration feel better.
77% of black kids fail their sophomore SAT vs 25% of white kids.
So the GPA of black kids will rise - but they’ll still fail the SAT at the same rate.
Oak Park has always been a bunch of liberal loonies though.
Yep. I was born in Chicago and lived about 30 of my adult years in and around Chicago. Beautiful city. Fascinating architecture and the story behind it. World class museums and performing arts. BUT violent crime rates and taxes are both WAY to high for me anymore, so I like many others left this deep blue city/state.
This is another knee jerk, blame others movement that accomplishes absolutely NOTHING. These kids graduate from junior high and high school because their grades are modified and nobody flunks out. But once they graduate, then what? They are no longer wrapped in the warm blanket of the liberal school boards and teachers and soon must face the reality of becoming an adult and contributing to society. What will these new Rhoades Scholars do when they are so ill equipped? But wait.....I graduated with a 3.5 GPA? Doesn't that count for anything? Newflash…..it doesn't.
Problem solved right? Another stroke of liberal genius to the rescue. The kids fail in society but wait, the school board and the teachers feel great because of all the high grades and low dropout rates. Does anybody else see the tragedy here?
Ready, fire, aim.
Reminds me of the Detroit high school valedictorian (she is Black):
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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
I posted this before, and it's evidence of the GPA fallacy... Sad but common story, this one from Detroit. A high school valedictorian, despite earning a stellar GPA her entire academic career, is struggling in remedial algebra at Michigan State, a class she'll need to pass to take the even higher-level math classes required for the degree she's pursuing in Biomedical Laboratory Science.
If this race based grading system pushes a student falsely to the head of the class and eventually lands the student a lucrative job.
........ Regardless of race... dummies are all around us.
The employer will eventually discover and replace the weak and supposedly promising employee.
The one that really loses out is the school fronting the phony intellects.
Businesses will shy away from hiring from schools employing such practices.
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I was born in Chicago and lived about 30 of my adult years in and around Chicago. Beautiful city. Fascinating architecture and the story behind it. World class museums and performing arts. BUT violent crime rates and taxes are both WAY to high for me anymore, so I like many others left this deep blue city/state.
