Grading For Equity

[Jolly]

The crusade continues...

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/24/grading_for_equity_promoting_students_with_no_zeroes_and_no_class_cut-ups_left_behind_1026319.html

[Copper]

Encourage those who should be working the hardest to work the least.

Equity moves a little further away.

[taiwan_girl]

Goofy

[xenon]

They just scrapped the accelerated program for K-8 in Seattle because the demographics made it defacto racist. The program was known for its great outcomes.

Curious what happens at the aggregate, national level when a country stop supporting its most talented students.

The ironic part is that the rich parents will still find a way to support their kids, the poorer families get hosed.

[Jolly]

Most of the higher level folks at the local schoolboard either homeschool or send their kids to private school.

[Mik]

The supposed underprivileged cannot be legislated or forced into the mainstream American economy. They have to do it themselves, and the opportunity has never been greater. You can learn skills sitting in your home, often for free.

[LuFins Dad]

@xenon said in Grading For Equity:

They just scrapped the accelerated program for K-8 in Seattle because the demographics made it defacto racist. The program was known for its great outcomes.

Curious what happens at the aggregate, national level when a country stop supporting its most talented students.

The ironic part is that the rich parents will still find a way to support their kids, the poorer families get hosed.

Here’s the problem, everything is racist. Everything. Therefore, not having an accelerated program must also be inherently racist. Now that we have established that, we can work backwards finding a single variable to prove our point…

1. Not having an accelerated program means that there is not a single BIPOC child in an accelerated program. Therefore it’s racist.

2. Are they still having school? School is racist, don’t you know. Aboriginal and African tribes did not have formal educations. Schooling is a European/White Colonial instinct forced upon other races. It reinforces other racist ideas such as timeliness, study, and work ethics. Are today’s modern white people any happier than Native American tribes in the 1600s? Obviously not. Therefore, education is obviously flawed and racist.

[LuFins Dad]

@xenon said in Grading For Equity:

They just scrapped the accelerated program for K-8 in Seattle because the demographics made it defacto racist. The program was known for its great outcomes.

Curious what happens at the aggregate, national level when a country stop supporting its most talented students.

The ironic part is that the rich parents will still find a way to support their kids, the poorer families get hosed.

Seriously, though? Equity, by definition, can only be accomplished by strangling the successful.