
High school students studying in some of California’s largest school districts will no longer be given a D or F grade for poor work, and will instead be allowed to take the tests or complete the work again, The Daily Mail reports.
The new system has been introduced due to the pandemic, with supporters arguing that it reduces the stress levels for already-traumatized and unsettled students.
Proponents say it will particularly help black, Latino and lower-income students, who have statistically been disproportionately affected by pandemic upheaval to school routines.
Critics say that it dumbs down education, leaving students unequipped to cope with the harsh realities of the modern world.
Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Sacramento City Unified and Santa Ana are among the school districts trialing the new way of marking.
‘Our hope is that students begin to see school as a place of learning, where they can take risks and learn from mistakes, instead of a place of compliance,’ said Nidya Baez, assistant principal at Fremont High in Oakland Unified.
The new system is known as ‘competency-based learning’. Read more at The Daily Mail.
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Dems need more stupid people to follow them so they are doing everything they can to create them.
And vote for them.
From now on, unless your A’s are followed by at least three pluses, we will know that they are simply consolation forms of D’s and F’s.
so, instead of doing everything possible to raise the educational level of all students, they are dumbing down the education of all students. look at what’s going on in this country now: this is the result. and, who are they kidding. our students and their families are not that stupid. everyone will understand that grade of B means top half of the class and a grade of C means bottom. so, what positive accomplishment is this?
There won’t be a need to ban ‘D’ and ‘F’ grades as the idiots are being eradicated from the world with the vax.
It is actually a great idea! More should follow it. It means everyone will have to work harder instead of just quitting or getting by without learning the material.
Who knows. Some can get hard work seriously. Others serious vague begin hard work.
The guy with F’s seems sicker than he is. But the regular student may ever want to understand general looks at any such student.
Yes really safe education. Yards away or not, we need it.
What were you attempting to say, exactly?
Let me guess – your grades for English language, Grammar, and Writing were the same as the ones getting banned now?