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New York Times: The Grade Inflation Debate
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| This damning article in the New York Times. | |
| The left has ruined our schools. | |
| That's what it's about, but they never once blamed the left. | |
| Not once. | |
| They do, though, say bad district policies. | |
| A typical response, she sent out a questionnaire to teachers, the writer in the New York Times. | |
| Came from Russell, a public high school teacher on the East Coast. | |
| He said that when a big chunk of the graduating class, quote, has a 4.0 grade, that's meaningless. | |
| This is what he wrote. | |
| Failure is a bad word, and the kids know it. | |
| It takes way more work to hold a student accountable than to simply pass him, her, him, slash her. | |
| Even if a kid does nothing all year, we are encouraged to find a way to pass him her. | |
| And then, of course, when a student does not perform, parents often want to know what we are going to do about it, not what their child can do. | |
| Who has produced these parents, the left or the right? | |
| I'm curious, what do you think? | |
| Think these are left-wing or right-wing parents who demand that the teacher change, not that their child change. | |
| It's, my producer frequently will say to me, you think they put two and two together? | |
| You think they put two and two together? | |
| Not in Oregon. | |
| Two and two doesn't equal four in Oregon. | |
| They announced the Oregon Education Department that the idea that there's one right answer in math is white supremacist. | |
| The left ruins everything it touches. | |
| This is just an example. | |
| That's all it is, but not once are you told that. | |
| Part of the issue is grade inflation. | |
| As Chalkbeat reported last year, Quote, even as students have taken higher-level courses, their GPAs have steadily risen. | |
| Geniuses. | |
| They're taking more GPA courses, and they still rise from an average of 2.68 in 1990 to 3.11 in 2019. And I'm sure since 2019 it's risen. | |
| This overall state... | |
| Has become more alarming since 2020, given how far behind school children are now. | |
| What, by the way, do you think that homeschool children are behind? | |
| Of course not. | |
| Are there rational reasons to keep your child in most American schools? | |
| What's not helping? | |
| The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for low-performing students to fail. | |
| Who run these school districts? | |
| There's no hint in the New York Times. | |
| Is there a school district in the United States that is run by conservatives? | |
| If there is, it is probably a very small, probably rural school district. | |
| They make it nearly impossible for low-performing students to fail. | |
| They have a grading floor under them. | |
| They know it, and that allows them to game the system. | |
| This is New York Times report. | |
| Several teachers whom I spoke with, or who responded to my questionnaire, mentioned policies stating that students cannot get lower than a 50%. | |
| I think from state of play and 50% is she might be British, this writer. | |
| Because we don't say get a 50%, right? | |
| Get a 50. I'm just explaining, that's all. | |
| On any assignment, you cannot get lower than a 50. You've got to hear what qualifies you for a 50. Even if the work was never done. | |
| You get a 50 when you hand it in nothing. | |
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Grading Quarters Merged: Failing Students Pass
00:02:35
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| Well, that's how they would like all of life to work. | |
| Because then nobody can fail. | |
| This is the feminization of the culture. | |
| Because we want to nurture kids that are failing. | |
| We don't want to lift them. | |
| We want to nurture them. | |
| A teacher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who filed the questionnaire name field with no, no, no, said the 50% floor and no attendance enforcement lead to a scenario where, quote, we get students who skip over 100 days, have a 50%, complete a couple of assignments, To tip over into 59.5% and then pass. | |
| They've cut classes, we used to put it, 100 days. | |
| And they pass. | |
| When I followed up with Russell, the high school teacher, over the phone, he said of his students, even if they plagiarize or cheat on something, it's still a 50%. | |
| Yeah. | |
| If they get 2 out of 10 on a quiz, that's automatically bumped up to a 5 out of 10. Are you aware of all of this? | |
| It's automatically bumped. | |
| You get 2 right out of 10. He said grades are no longer tied to attendance and that grading quarters are merged. | |
| So some students, quote, quickly found... | |
| That if they could have a passing grade in the first one or two quarters, they could just stop coming to school. | |
| And people will vote again. | |
| The author of this piece, being a Times opinion writer, will probably vote for the left as well. | |
| It is like voting, it is like going to a doctor that you know is a quack. | |
| Voting Democrat when you know what the schools have been done with. | |
| Not to mention the stores downtown. | |
| We return. | |