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Succinct nutshell meme, to the 6 gorillion power.

Bravo.

left/right, black/white, gay/hetero, womens/mens salaries, they really turned our society into a two piece band didnt they? You get team A or team B, and the order of the day is fighting the other team. They inject enough money for it to self perpetuate, change all the real laws they want while we argue how many toilets a transgender athlete needs to sit on.

A lot of what I am seeing now is 3rd world disaster response 101. I worked in such regions for almost a decade and their governments never let a disaster go to waste. Its a great time to make a lot of necessary changes( in their eyes), usually along the lines of enforcing doctrine and cancelling freedoms. The amount of laws being changed across the whole 1st world now is frightening. Business, banking, criminal, education, security and survielllance. Anyone with a bad idea is getting the funding they need, everyones nose is in the trough. The average person too busy to notice because he is hiding under his bed wearing a dust mask over a virus that even full transmission is 3x less likely to end his life than being overweight.

I say just give every negro child (and other people of color) their high school diploma (and a BA degree) at birth, and be done with it. No school attendance necessary. A win-win for everyone.

“Lowering the bar” is another way to say suppression. Keep people ignorant and their only choice is to ask for more. The left loves the power of suppression.

Pretty much says it all.

Well on their way to a perfect game.

I carefully read the article you cited and nowhere does it say what you declared in your opening statement (see bold above). Did you just make that statement from thin air in order to grab attention, or do you have a serious problem with reading comprehension? I would need to know quite a bit more than what is in that article before forming a firm opinion regarding their announced changes. I have no idea whether they have a sensible basis for their changes or if that will enable them to combat racism, but what is your point - your reason - for your mis statements?

They clearly state they are adjusting their grading criteria to fail fewer blacks. In other words, they admit they are gaming the system (changing grading criteria) to achieve a race-based outcome. That is not helping blacks. It is hurting them.

Yes, their stated aim in changing grading criteria is to have fewer failures in the target groups (it may be Blacks and Hispanics) and maybe they are lowering learning expectations - and maybe they are not. They clearly state that mastery of material/content will be the core factor in grading. I have seen such an emphasis bring about significant benefits in certain learning situations, especially where emphases on "busy work" and less useful routines are diminished. The news article does not enable one to fully understand what they are doing. I would never endorse selectively lowered learning expectations based on racial distinctions, and I hope they are not doing that. Yes, that would be counterproductive and hurtful to the student. The article does not tell me that they are doing so.

Subjective vs objective grading. And if one does think along the Party's line then I guess one will not achieve mastery huh? Time for the teacher's unions to go for starters.

This started in 1969, where I live.

Unfortunately the removal of absolute passing standards is also coming from the top down 😕

The California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE), instituted in 2006 as a requirement for a diploma. Kids can take it multiple times. Eventual passing rate hovered at around 90% Statewide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High_School_Exit_Exam

Suspended by Gov Jerry Brown ten years later.

The test has highlighted the educational disparities by race, disability, income and whether English is spoken in the home.

This has been politically embarrassing for school districts, who were previously able to ignore their failures.

Being a long time public schoolteacher I’d say that about sums it up. What the test mostly highlighted was discrepancies in parenting.

That being said, I knew several high school dropouts when I was in high school in the 70’s who went on to successful careers, especially in the skilled trades.

And heck, every high school in America has ready access to Mexican drugs, a 30 billion plus dollar industry, said sophisticated distribution networks operated to a large extent by dropouts.

The high school diploma should remain what it was, an academic benchmark while at the same time recognizing not everyone is gonna meet that standard.

Part of the problem in recent decades has been on the emphasis of pen and paper skills, “preparing every student for college”, and an abandonment of the hands-on trades in which many kids who have trouble with pen and ink (or word processor) excel.

Lowering the bar on what a high school diploma is will help no one, responsible parents of all ethnicities who can will pull their kids from public schools, while regular public schools will increasingly become holding facilities teaching the kids they are victims of “racism” while demanding very little from them.

JMHO

Once the liberals pass “universal Income”, education becomes superfluous

If they're trouble makers and aren't going to learn anything, just give them a diploma on the 1st day they're old enough to drop out and be done with them. Get them out of the classroom so the other kids can learn something.

I bet schools just across the border in Tijuana give grades..

Liberals never want to do tough work on anything. If the game isn’t going well for them, they just change the rules.

That starts with Little League trophies for all, because they can’t accept the ideas that some have more talent than others, and it goes all the way to immigration.

Take the European mess a few years ago. The Arab Spring, ISIS/ Syria mess sent a million Muslims to Europe. Instead of taking them in while the ME melted down, how about killing ISIS, stop screwing with Assad and Syria, and sending all those 18-35 year old Muslim makes back to fight for their freedom?

Liberals don’t like that. Hard choice.

Hard choices solves problems in the long run. Liberal way spawns unintended consequences.

More grease on the slippery slope into the cess pool.

You have to be really ignorant to be a communist/socialist......the school system is building their socialist base! The school system has been developing socialists for 50 years...they’ve merely gone “all in”! memtb

California Hispanic population under 18 is 48%...whites are now just 29%.

It's over.

Hanco you can't even spell DUMBASSES yourself! But Be Well, RZ.