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From: Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net>
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Subject: Re: San Francisco Institues New 'Equity Grading' System; Allows Students to Graduate With Failing Grades
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 09:46:45 -0400
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BTR1701 wrote:

> California once again pulls out into the lead in the race
> to the bottom.
> 
> Sounds like Progress! to me...
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> https://thepostmillennial.com/san-francisco-students-can-graduate-with-failing-grades-under-new-grading-for-equity-guidelines
> 
> On Tuesday, the San Francisco public school district
> announced a new grading policy that will allow students to
> graduate classes with a score as low as 21%. The "Grading
> for Equity" method eliminates homework and weekly test
> scores from a student's final semester grade. Instead,
> there will be one test at the end of each semester to
> decide if a student has passed the class. The final exam
> can be retaken several times, The Voice San Francisco
> reported.
> 
> Maria Su, the Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified
> School District, enacted the new guidelines without
> seeking approval from the school board, according to the
> nonprofit. The changes will impact 10,000 students across
> 14 high schools in California's Bay Area.
> 
> Students may submit assignments late, fail to attend
> class, or choose not to attend at all without consequence
> to their academic performance. Currently, receiving an A
> requires a minimum score of 90%, while a D is set at 61%.
> Under the new scale, a student can obtain an A with a
> score as low as 80% (typically a B-) and a D with a score
> as low as 21%, which is otherwise known as an F.
> 
> Educators, students, and parents have expressed concerns
> regarding this diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
> initiative, particularly how it would impact academic
> standards and college readiness, Newsweek reported. The
> San Francisco school district's experiment comes in spite
> of President Donald Trump's executive order signed in
> January that eliminated DEI programs in federal
> taxpayer-funded institutions.
> 
> Supporters of the policy argue that by reducing the
> emphasis on behavior-based penalties like missing or late
> assignments, it more accurately reflects a student's
> learning, while critics believe it would hurt students who
> are already on pace for college placement.

Even their pre-equity grading scale would be considered
extra easy in the school district I grew up in. :/

An 80 score on a test (even a ten-question pop quiz) was
a D. Yeah.

95-100 = A
88-94 = B
81-87 = C
75-80 = D
below 74 = E (a failing grade)

Tough love in the Olden Days, but at least most students
geting a diploma could read, write, and do basic math. 

How is San Francisco going to pay for all the unemployment
benefits for these equititized/non-educated graduates?

I'm glad they're on the opposite coast than I am.

Nyssa, who thought the grading scale was too tight then, but
at least it was the same for all of the students in the
school system who suffered through it