Re: San Francisco Institues New 'Equity Grading' System; Allows Students to Graduate With Failing Grades

California once again pulls out into the lead in the race to the bottom.
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Sounds like Progress! to me...
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https://thepostmillennial.com/san-francisco-students-can-graduate-with-failing-grades-under-new-grading-for-equity-guidelines
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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