Grading for Equity eliminates homework or weekly tests from being counted in a student’s final semester grade. All that matters is how the student scores on a final examination, which can be taken multiple times. Students can be late turning in an assignment or showing up to class or not showing up at all without it affecting their academic grade. Currently, a student needs a 90 for an A and at least 61 for a D. Under the San Leandro Unified School District’s grading for equity system touted by the San Francisco Unified School District and its consultant, a student with a score as low as 80 can attain an A and as low as 21 can pass with a D.Joe Feldman, the consultant the school district plans to contract with to implement Grading for Equity, wrote in 2019 that in Placer County, another jurisdiction with the grading system, “students who did not qualify for free or reduced-price lunch had a sharper decrease in A’s, reflecting how traditional grading practices disproportionately benefit students with resources because of the inequitable inclusion of extra credit and other resource-dependent grading criteria.”
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39 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 29 May
ooof.
This is not the way. Reminds me of Ayn Rand's world in Anthem. Also the phrase "the soft bigotry of low expectations". The solution isn't to provide those students from poor families more help and tutoring. Just grade on a curve. I mean, I get it to some extent because the whole system is like a machine and grading systems have issues... but to me this is not attacking the root issues but rather making people feel better. And really... that won't work as kids will know when they are being patronized. Just as the "everyone gets a trophy" thing hasn't work.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 29 May
Honestly, I'm to the point of thinking the whole thing is a lost cause. So called public education doesn't work without a cohesive culture with strong families and a shared tribal or national identity. We no longer have that in the US. Its making a comeback (see Return of the Strong Gods) but its not gonna be uniform.
The goal in public education was to create a uniform system to create "good" citizens and workers. I would argue that isn't really working anymore as the post war consistence is to oppose nationalism in favor of cultural appreciation and deconstruction. Even when I was in school we were being taught how terrible our past was. Of course the most important lessons were ignored but it was very anti-western civilization even back in the 90s. Its way worse now.
I wish private schools were better but in my experience they just copy the curriculum and only really change things on the margins. This is especially true of so called "Christian" education. I am curious how Muslim schools in the US are designed. I suspect they are much less statist.
Homeschooling really is the way if you can do it. Many people learned they could do it during Covid. But even if you can't just augmenting public education is required.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 29 May
I feel so bad for the teachers. I'd probably quit, but I don't know how many of them have better options
San Francisco needs to rein in its destructive tendencies pronto
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 30 May
I look forward to seeing ACT and SAT test to take more prominence in the choices for entry into a college! It looks like grades will mean little to nothing at every level now. The next step would be entrance exams for jobs, too. What a bunch of idiots!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsMoro 29 May
Tragic
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