San Francisco wants to give students
A grades because of coronavirus
by
Selim Algar
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/16/2020 2:24:47 PM
They’re flattening the grade curve. San Francisco school officials are pushing to assign all students “A” grades this year to help ease their coronavirus-related traumas.
“We’re in a pandemic, people,” said board member Alison Collins during a Wednesday Zoom meeting. “People are dying. This is not the time for us to be acting normally.” The board argued that students are deserving of some academic consideration after having their school year upended by the contagion.Susan Solomon, a teachers union representative, said city educators endorsed the idea.“We would be in support of giving students A’s,” she said. “
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/16/2020 2:30:30 PM (No. 381835)
Jeez, these people are totally nuts.
Sure, let's give all of them A's...and trophies...maybe a pet unicorn named Chet too.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/16/2020 2:31:12 PM (No. 381836)
And don't forget the trophies. Gotta have a trophy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
droopydog 4/16/2020 2:33:29 PM (No. 381839)
Seven month Summer break, straight A's without lifting a finger...this was the stuff of my dreams when I was in school.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
scottj 4/16/2020 2:37:54 PM (No. 381844)
Not the time to be acting normal? Who in San Francisco has ever acted normal?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GO3 4/16/2020 2:44:49 PM (No. 381848)
SF is just the first to admit it. Watch, up next is Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, etc.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dgw1949 4/16/2020 2:46:22 PM (No. 381850)
Heck, make them all Doctors!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2020 2:49:19 PM (No. 381852)
As if this is any different than normal practice.
How do you think Sandy, the tip-stealing barmaid, got a college degree in economics without knowing anything at all?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Plex 4/16/2020 2:59:41 PM (No. 381858)
Won't help with SAT scores
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
David Key 4/16/2020 3:00:47 PM (No. 381862)
Got and even better idea, how about you just take what their grades were up to the point they were shutdown. That is their grade avg for the year. What is it with liberals, I have suspected that they were brain dead all along but they just keep pushing the meme. They've already dumbed down the educational system and watered the grade to the point where often they mean nothing about how well educated kids today are.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/16/2020 3:02:09 PM (No. 381866)
Not to worry they also want to do away with SATs. Of course if you think about it this is actually stealing from the students and rewarding the schools/teachers.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/16/2020 3:04:49 PM (No. 381869)
Boy was I the wrong generation. Months with no school AND getting all As.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/16/2020 3:36:15 PM (No. 381896)
They should get the grade that they earned before the schools closed down.
My Grandson is taking class with his computer and will get the grade he deserves.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 4/16/2020 4:08:17 PM (No. 381930)
Sure why not??? Participation trophies instead of Winner trohpies, A grades instead of the F's you earned, free med care for illegals, stimulus funds for illegals, free lunches...where does it end????
Reminds me of an old Science Fiction story about everyone being equal, so they tied a concrete block to the leg of one child who was a great dancer...can't remember the name now...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/16/2020 4:19:05 PM (No. 381944)
Why fool around? Just issue every student a diploma and close the schools for good.
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Variations of this are happening everywhere .... only San Francisco is letting the public know about it. I teach in a Florida school district and we have been told that no child can be given a grade lower than 70% on any assignment, even if they don't turn anything in. But even those grades don't count. At the end of the shut-down, we are to give a student a single grade for all their online work: they haven't said it yet, but I'm sure by the end they will be telling us what that one grade is.
Also, we are told that we cannot assign more than 25 minutes worth of work per period --- otherwise the students will be too stressed. So kids are done with their daily schoolwork in under three hours.
Why aren't more parents screaming about this? Kids should be kept busy while out of school, not given all this excess free time. Giving them LESS than they would normally have to do is cheating them of their education.
But parents don't care or don't know or are afraid to say anything.
Oh, and our teacher's union and school board have declared that they will defy our Governor if he tries to open the schools before the end of the year.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
or gate 4/16/2020 4:25:31 PM (No. 381950)
Here we go again in liberalville
everyone gets a trophy..
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
agrunt 4/16/2020 4:37:23 PM (No. 381967)
This is one of the top dumbest ideas I have ever seen.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 4/16/2020 4:47:10 PM (No. 381978)
Having watched the Left progressively (pun not intended, but fitting) change their view of grades, from reflecting performance in class and on tests, to being a means of applying their vision of social justice to the population, this is almost expected.
What is initially surprising is that those advocating this haven't suggested decrementing a letter grade for those who are white, and another for those who are Christian.
Oh, wait. That IS the normal attitude here. So if we listen to board member Alison Collins (who said this is not the time for us to be acting normally), then maybe we should use this time to resume the assigning of letter grades based on merit, alone.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/16/2020 4:53:48 PM (No. 381982)
I discussed this problem of the Kung Flu interruption, with a friend who is also a retired professor. I think we agreed that a Pass or Fail would be appropriate for the Spring semester, given the circumstances.
Every college and university would understand the circumstances,, and make admission decisions factoring that in.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 4/16/2020 5:34:58 PM (No. 382008)
How fitting. Progressives think the whole world should be on a "grade curve". And I suspect "incentivize" is considered a dirty word!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
red1066 4/16/2020 5:35:20 PM (No. 382010)
Participation diplomas that the kiddy's can put on their shelf along with the trophies they got playing soccer.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2020 6:03:19 PM (No. 382037)
The unintended consequences of this sort of steady dumbing down of public education will be the home schooled kids, who actually know something will wind up running everything in 20-30 years.
I think that is probably a good outcome.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/16/2020 8:18:09 PM (No. 382156)
And if they are all good, they will get ice cream from Nancy Pelosi. . .
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Yo Yo 4/16/2020 8:35:32 PM (No. 382168)
The article is worse than the headline. A board member said students should be allowed to grade themselves on what they felt they deserved. Kids with more resources had an unfair advantage. They said what good are grades anyway? Imagine if you were the kid the disciplined themselves to earn a legitimate A? Liberalism really is a disease.
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