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

BTR1701 wrote:

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

Even their pre-equity grading scale would be considered
extra easy in the school district I grew up in. :/

An 80 score on a test (even a ten-question pop quiz) was
a D. Yeah.

95-100 = A
88-94 = B
81-87 = C
75-80 = D
below 74 = E (a failing grade)

Tough love in the Olden Days, but at least most students
geting a diploma could read, write, and do basic math.

How is San Francisco going to pay for all the unemployment
benefits for these equititized/non-educated graduates?

I'm glad they're on the opposite coast than I am.

Nyssa, who thought the grading scale was too tight then, but
at least it was the same for all of the students in the
school system who suffered through it