The chief of San Francisco’s public
schools announced a “Grading for Equity” plan that will affect more than
10,000 high school students in the City by the Bay. According to reports, the
new and depraved grading system will award a grade of ‘C’ for scores as low as
41 on a 100-point test. Even more absurd and incredible, students with a score
as low as 21 out of 100 will be allowed to pass exams with a ‘D’ grade,
according to the Washington Free Beacon. 21% correct will be a passing grade?
21%! That’s not just ‘woke,’ it’s a joke. And a bad one. Especially for
the rest of us who will have to deal with utterly incompetent youth entering
the workforce and manning our institutions, political and otherwise.
San Francisco Superintendent of
Schools Mary Su recently unveiled the plan, without bothering to seek approval
from the San Francisco Board of Education-- or so reported the Voice of San
Francisco. The plan is scheduled to go into effect this fall, (adversely)
affecting 14 San Francisco area high schools and their students. VSF also noted
that the Grading for Equity program will relieve students from the stress of
taking weekly tests. Other reports indicate that homework will not be
considered in final grading and that plans to train teachers in the new grading
system are set to be implemented in August. If there are no weekly tests and
homework is non-existent or ungraded, why do teachers have to be trained in the
new grading system?
Teachers allegedly will have
the choice of whether or not to implement Grading for Equity this fall, but
students and parents decidedly will not. I mean, what do students and their
parents have to do with education, right?
There are real, profound, and lasting
issues with the continuing trend of pandering to the lowest common denominators
in classrooms and making it ever easier for students to graduate without
learning much of anything of use to themselves or others.
Consider the following potential future
scenarios:
Woman
on a gurney: “Are you a good surgeon, doc?”
Surgeon:
“Well, I’m averaging 23 out of a hundred on my competence exams!”
Man
at an auto repair shop: “Do you know how to change my serpentine belt?”
Mechanic:
“I’m not sure, but I did score 42% on my last certification test!”
Airline
customer: “Are you qualified to fly this plane?”
Pilot:
“Don’t worry, I got 35 out of 100 on my recent skills assessment!”
How about we go back to “Grading for
Competence?”
Now that is a radical idea.
(Author’s update: San Francisco’s ‘Grading
for Equity’ plan has since been dropped due to public outcry. Thank God! But
the idea is still trending in many locales and among many ‘educators.)
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