How can we improve America’s K-12 education? How can we hold schools accountable for their performance? Forget about hiring better-quality teachers, smaller class sizes, longer school days and more rigorous curriculum. North Carolina has been making poor-performing schools “great” again simply by inflating the grade scale.
State Democrat lawmakers are considering a bill that will make a permanent grade scale change for all state public schools. The Tar Heel State has been using a 15-point grade system, rather the traditional 10-point scale, to determine A to F school grades since 2015.
However, the 15-grade scale is set to revert to a 10-point scale at the end of the 2019 school year if no legal action is taken. That’s why Democrat lawmakers in the State Assembly are pushing for a bill to make the 15-point grade scale permanent.
Here’s how the 15-point grade scale works:
- A: 100 to 85 percent
- B: 84 to 70 percent
- C: 69 to 55 percent
- D: 54 to 40 percent
- F: Anything below 40 percent
Under this grade system, schools that used to be considered a failure if they scored between 40 to 60 percent would now be considered acceptable. The new grading scale was signed into law by former governor Pat McCrory in 2015. It was meant to be a temporary change. But I guess lowering standards to shield underperforming schools is too good to give up for some lawmakers. more here
A good start would be to start educating and stop brainwashing. A good end would be to shut down govt forced indoctrination compounds.
Georgia did that in the early 90’s just after they legalized the lottery. The high schools inflated the grades so almost all students got the Hope scholarship. Now GA is consistently ranked near the bottom of the list for public education.
If you love your children, don’t put them in public school.
Just like the minimum wage debate, why stop at a 15 point scale? Make it 25 points, then nobody will get an F, because 0-25 will be a D!
Did Boston University buy into that concept for AOC?
There are some teachers that are incredibly dedicated and fantastic assets to the public school system. But sadly most hold a degree in liberal arts and finished in the lower end of their degree requirements. Teaching is a easy career choice for an otherwise useless and lazy person.
There’s a school in Florida that fired a teacher for not following their rule of the lowest grade a student can receive is a 50. She gave students that didn’t turn in work a zero.
This has been going on for over a decade. All across the USA. I remember getting a new state project at work and being so impressed with the quality of essays from the students in that state. Eight years later, they are no better than some of the worst rated states that we have projects for. So sad.
When I had meetings with the state education board and some of their best teachers to set the standards for how they wanted us to score the essays, every year they progressively allowed more and more poorly written essays to receive high scores.
The last year I went, I was so disappointed. Some of the papers I brought to have them decide the standards were so good. To see them give the high scores to them AND the poorly written papers just made me sick. These exceptional students just got screwed from their accomplishments by giving the same scores to students that didn’t deserve it.
Sorry for the rant. It is so indicative of what is wrong with our society – pandering to the lofo so they don’t ‘hurt their feelings’. They are creating what we have to deal with after they pass them on to real life.
By lowering the grading standards, they make it easier to discriminate against merit in deciding scholarships. When 85 is the same as 100, you have “leveled the playing field”.
But the real world still wants its bridges not to fall down, and its airplanes not to collide in midflight.
Everyone gets a trophy.
In the mid-70s a close friend & navy shipmate one day told me after carefully considering all factors he had concluded that he wasn’t getting laid often enough because he wasn’t meeting enough women that met his standards. So he lowered his standards. Problem solved. That’s pretty much the same solution path the school has taken. Greater success via lowered standards.
What’s a percent?
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To BobM. funny, but so sad, so true!
My spouse taught chemistry at a community college in a university town. He wouldn’t lower the bar in his courses, although he was pressured to. To him, a student learned the right way to earn the desired grade to prove the exact knowledge had been acquired. He didn’t do curve grading to please students and administrators. Each student received a grade according to his own ability. Many of his students were headed into medical studies and needed high grades to qualify. Many tried, but few actually made the right grades. He also often had students coming in from public high schools who had NOT learned academically, but really thought they had. So many do not even know that they don’t know what they should know.
It’s the nationwide rce to the bottom. MOST states have done this. There are a whole bunch of articles and links about this at the link.
http://www.illinoisloop.org/test.html#dumbing
So, you only have to be correct 2 out of 5 times to pass?
(is this adjustment for minorities and imported rat-people?)
When I was a kid, 2 out of 3 (67%) was a Failure.
And nobody can figure out why we’re turning out morons?
The Insane are in charge of the Asylum.
izlamo delenda est …
As more I see this news, as more I want to reform our educational system from a bottom to its nutshell. Why nobody of politicians doesn’t talk about digital education? For example, check Edubirdie (https://uk.edubirdie.com/plagiarism-checker). Why it couldn’t be successfully transformed in the US system? Let’s stop political populism in the education of the USA and do a real job for youth.