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

On 2025-05-30 12:18 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

 California once again pulls out into the lead in the race to the bottom.

 
 I got nuttin'.
 

 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

 

 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.

 
 You had to do better than that with social promotion!
 

 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.

 

 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.

 

 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.

 

 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.

 
 I larned gud in skul to blow deadlines and to be tardy!

 
Exactly. It's as if they are TRYING to ensure that students fail to be
employable.