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On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:29:13 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

>On 2025-05-30 12:18 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> California once again pulls out into the lead in the race to the bottom.
>> 
>> I got nuttin'.
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> You had to do better than that with social promotion!
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I larned gud in skul to blow deadlines and to be tardy!
>
>Exactly. It's as if they are TRYING to ensure that students fail to be 
>employable.

And be unquestioning servants of mommy government.