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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
New SF public school plan would - eliminate homework and weekly tests from counting toward semester grade - allow students to take the final exam multiple times - convert all B grades into As, and all Fs into Cs It’s hard to see the difference between this policy and what you’d get if a bunch of 10yos locked the teachers in a closet and rewrote the rules.
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John Trasviña
@JohnTrasvina
Here's detail on #SFUSD Grading for #Equity plan briefly discussed @ tonite's #school board meeting. Coming to 14 high schools in August. Homework, attendance not counted toward academic grade. Scrutiny needed. thevoicesf.org/grading-for-eq @SFParents @TheVOSF @garrytan @incitafusio
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
@JeremiahDJohns
It's eternally frustrating how many public policy decisions happen without even a single layer of next-step thinking. Like "If we make it so nobody can fail, what would that cause students to do?"... Is nobody asking themselves that question???
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Jared Walczak
@JaredWalczak
The sad irony is that Grading for Equity is virtually the opposite of Teaching for Equity, because under this system, the only kids who might get a real education are those from families that take more into their own hands, bringing higher expectations and resources to bear.
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Seems like an avalanche of watered down public education happening everywhere
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Dissident Teacher
@educatedandfree
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Mastery-Based Learning + Equitable Grading = Fraud
Three years ago, volunteer teachers at my large, high-performing high school site shadowed a student for a day, following her same schedule, sitting in a student desk, and doing the work she was asked...
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John Lago
@jetpack_john
Devil's Advocate on the homework stuff -- the grade should be based on whether you mastered the content by the end. It doesn't make sense to penalize someone for participation/homework performance if they are proficient by the final exam.
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Matt Knee ((📟))
@matt_knee
And the same people who want to make grades meaningless also don't like standardized tests. Do they want colleges to just admit on vibes and diversity statements? (I think pretty much, yes.)
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Lubdha Khandelwal
@lubdha
1. Another reason proctored standardized tests are going to become more of an indicator of a student's academic ability than just grades. 2. This will likely hurt high achieving students from traditionally disadvantaged backgrounds with few other avenues to distinguish the most.
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Dr. Thad
@drthadblog
Watering down all grades and testing surely may give the appearance of "equity", while not changing any actual educational outcomes that matter. Seem to be now a standard for progressive policy
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🐝 Carol Walsh ^Monterey Bay^
@CarolWalshReal1
At what point are we going to start to actually say no more of this equity talk, we are returning to equal opportunity and standards of excellence. Yes help the kids who are at the bottom and need it, but stop holding back everybody else!
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𝔻𝕠𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕖
@georg3
When Democrats cry that you don't know what woke or DEI is, point to policies like this. This is exactly what that looks like in practice. Lowering standards, disadvantaging good students, creating long term dangers and more, all because Dems believe that we have to make things
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davidlee
@davidlee
This resembles many elite private schools (at least here in LA) in whole or in part Allowing students to retake exams is the worst way to prepare them for life. I hate it. One valid argument is you have to do this if private schools continue coddling our kids
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Jared Jensen
@jared_jensen75
It’s not about lazy kids. Every reform that passes nowadays makes teachers’ jobs easier and admins’ numbers look better. Meanwhile, teachers are increasingly just babysitting kids “learning” from programs like Khan Academy while in reality they’re just learning to cheat with AI.
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Bedtime Futurist ☀️🏗️🚀
@bedtime_enjoyer
It comes from inability to accept, deep discomfort with inequality As if we can just cover it up and it will go away Or the symptoms of inequality are the innate causes
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Sean Thomas
@seanthomas85
To be fair, the grading scale itself is only meaningful in relation to how grading is calibrated. My Physical Chemistry prof in college used the 0/20/40/60/80 scale, but he proceeded to grade quite strictly. The amount of effort and achievement that earned a 50% C in his class
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Woodheart6
@Christo17115772
It’s hard to imagine how any reasonable adult could think this would actually help students! It’s an admission that the teachers are failing at their most important task, teaching!
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BrizaFridata
@BrizaFridata
Should be renamed. Grading for union members. This is what happens when unions only have one client. It only cares about the welfare of that one client.
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Steve Faktor
@ideafaktory
Option my screenplay:
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Steve Faktor
@ideafaktory
Here's a sci-fi book no one would believe: Misguided do-gooders hire consultants to turn a generation of kids into meek, confused, useless, wussies. When those kids grow up, they take over the same govt admin jobs, and pay the same firm $20M to figure out what a young man is, x.com/kane/status/19…
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UnintendedConsequences
@Griffit15999943
I'm imagining a "Weekend at Bernie's" scene where two white liberal women are getting a black teen to just scribble on a test so they can give him an A and call themselves heros
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@fxshea62
This sounds really dumb. No wonder Harvard is teaching remedial algebra to incoming students.
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Robbie Goodwin
@robbiegoodwin
this is embarassing but as someone who came up in bay area school systems, the amount of homework and competitiveness is something most people really dont know or relate to in the rest of the country. I went to public high school and it was harder than college
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Dissident Teacher
@educatedandfree
Grading for Equity has been in schools since 2010. I watched it eviscerate what little professionalism and decorum was left in three large CA districts. 1:1 laptops/ipads delivered the coup de grace to anything resembling learning in middle and high schools. Wrote about the
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Dissident Teacher
@educatedandfree
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Mastery-Based Learning + Equitable Grading = Fraud
Three years ago, volunteer teachers at my large, high-performing high school site shadowed a student for a day, following her same schedule, sitting in a student desk, and doing the work she was asked...
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TwoTribes
@2_Tribes
Sadly, I’m guessing it was more like 10 teachers (or union members) locked the politicians in a room and wrote them this plan in exchange for their release (and a nice donation)
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Stuck
@StuckInMiddleU
Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode, where the parents are worried that their child might do too well on the test, and be taken away from them.
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Dissident Teacher
@educatedandfree
SF schools are not “good” and haven’t been for a long time. What you were seeing was ability-level grouping as competent, diligent parents moved their kids into “good” schools. The District policy was perversely anti-learning as far back as the early 2000s but your kids were
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Dissident Teacher
@educatedandfree
Replying to @SteeleDaddy
The public schools are REALLY that bad. I broke down the perverse incentive structures at play in K12 that are destroying our kids in five parts, starting here: Intro: Your Kids Aren't Learning. At All: x.com/educatedandfre Teachers Aren't Subject Matter Experts
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Dingo Serious
@DingoSerious
The “perceived competence” bubble is gonna burst and, almost overnight, our current education system will just be replaced by super-cheap AI-fueled private options and start ups that provide testing to validate skill-sets for prospective employers.
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Bill Davis
@billdavisllc
Let's produce an entire generation of degenerates that hate their country!!! So grateful for our woke laptop class.
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Gigiljane
@gigiljane
The only way to deal with the proposed changes to the SFUSD Grading plan is to pull funding. This can be accomplished by allowing school funds to follow the student. Parents can “vote” for the best educational system for their children by taking control of their tax dollars.
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Kevin Daley
@kevinrdaley
In 20 years this is going to be leveled as a polemic against white people for destroying non-white education
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Robert Jordan
@knavishknight
When I was an Army Recruiter in SLO/Morro Bay/AG, the avg ASVAB score at those public schools was about a 50 (pretty good, 32 is passing). I then become a Recruiter for South City/San Bruno/Millbrae, where the avg score was about a 6. The education system in SF is in shambles.
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Petra Williams
@PetraBarbele
Bravo! The land of the free and the home of the brave - implementing standards so low you’ve eliminated any reason to actually try. Mediocrity rules the day!!
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MD
@MDPog_
SF Public schools are too focused on "equity" than solving literal gang wars on their campus grounds
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Gregory Primm
@GregoryPrimm
Just gonna say this, anything that California politicians and bureaucrats want for their state and their people he's 100% opposite they should be doing!
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Connie Carberg
@ConnieScouts
This is hard to believe that it’s true. I remember back in the late 60s the crazy times they went to pass fail in college. Nobody did anything. It was so easy.
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Hugh tebault
@HughTebaul68893
It would be better to fire ALL SF PUBLIC SCHOOL employees, and give parents an education warrant to be used at ANY k-12 school licensed . Warrants would be for up to the current PER STUDENT FUNDING SF was receiving.
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Sahil Punamia
@SahilPunamia
Wild how school administrators and teachers can’t articulate the difference between equity and equality This will set our kids back so much against the global stage The world, let alone AI, doesn’t care about your status signaling equity goals
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Believing
@Believing808
My 14-year-old daughter says that they’re doing this on purpose to create an uneducated populous to do all the jobs that no one else wants to do. I am increasingly beginning to agree with her. This seems intentional. We simply in America have become so uneducated and irrational.
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john
@john23089884
Sounds like a good idea. Then all the students will get in to Harvard. Which is probably where they belong.
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Anne-Marie Allen
@amallen541
Why are school systems so determined to make sure kids don't learn anything? If a kid can pass a class with a grade of 21, why would he even bother to go to the class?
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GamecockLurks
@SwattyKay
Bear in mind this is intended to hide not only students who can’t learn, but teachers who can’t teach. Everybody comes away looking more knowledgeable than they actually are, because progressives care about perception much more than reality.
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RobG
@RobGADV
This is exactly what the left needs to complete their plan of creating a dependent society.
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Tomdog
@VooDooGolf123
Inflated grades will NOT help H.S. graduates get into college. The truth will be revealed in their SAT scores.
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@DennisP220
On other words, teach them to be irresponsible and sloppy, performance doesn't matter, everyone gets an A, brighter students are wasting their time, etc. A program designed to create failure in life.
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Stephen Carter
@jstephencarter
The bad news is we’re not educating our children. The good news is this and stuff like this especially at the university level is the death of credentialism. This country is full of idiots with degrees from schools they never should’ve been admitted to in the first place that
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Tweetledumb
@xueshang
A "final exam" if it is standardised and can only be repeated once or twice in a given period is not such a terrible system. Are you totally opposed to things like SAT, MCAT, USMLE etc?
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J Mathews
@OldandUnpopular
the SF (and NY) middle class learning diaspora will develop new "schools" free from the legion of entitled losers we call teachers AI will will teach and good humans will facilitate socialization without prog left commissars and their unions hasta la vista, teachers
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Skip10
@tnsampson2
All because of race. Such considerations always drag down everyone to the level of the least. Good trigger mechanism though: will push many kids into private education.
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Scott Reynolds
@ScottThinks
How is this even possible? Does someone, somewhere actually think this is serving the kids? Or society? College admission rates are going to plummet from SFUSD schools because the colleges know all the grades are total BS.
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Steven Medina
@stevenm28830086
These liberal cities are creating, by design, a specific group of people that lack motivation and are dependent upon subsidiaire. Parents need to rise-up.
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Gigi
@gigicupcake2
This is why abolishing DOE is so important! Get your kids out of these dumbing your children down schools
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Cee Deelicious
@iii_ronto
Why bother even having school? Just dissolve the school districts and save the taxpayers the money and frustration.
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@WhiteRabbitDLUX
They've implemented this same idiocy across America. Parents need to firm up and make it clear they demand better. Passing our kids for doing next-to-nothing is not gonna cut it! School administrators also need to be given the power to tell parents who whine the most, but whose
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Michael Choi, MD
@AntiheroMD
The Dems wonder why reasonable people have left them in droves. It’s because they’re associated—rightly or wrongly—with policy like this that’s so clearly destructive to the fabric of society.
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antiDave
@stemcellg
In my high school you needed a 92 for an A, 84 for a B, 76 for a C, and 68 for a D, 67 or below was a big F. It was also majority black, had no race or behavior problems, but was rural and it was the 80s.
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Constitutional Minarchist
@DavisMinarchist
On the plus side, this will save college admissions offices and employers a TON of time. If someone lists themselves as having graduated from a San Francisco High School, you can safely ignore them.
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Bill 🇺🇸
@BillinWV
#Homeschool for a year challenge: The world will not snap off its axle if you try it. Comparatively speaking👆you cannot harm your kids. You will very likely discover you teach quite well, stick with it, and be so glad you tried it.
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Stan
@StanMtnBike
The dumbing down of America has begun thanks to Liberals and this crap. While China, Japan, and all other first world countries focus on making their kids smarter and better prepared, we're creating gender neutral morons. Well done liberals, dumb people are easier to control.
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WTF Reviews
@WTF_Reviews
Wait wait wait…. A 21%… yes, a 21% would be a D… what?!?! You can get 7 questions right out of 30 on a test and pass. 7/30 is passing. Wow. This only harms students. Lowering the standard until there is no standard creates dumb people. This is equity? Saying people of color
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Sam Stone
@samstone46
They either think minorities are the dumbest things on earth, or they are intentionally not educating them. How else to keep them as their cheap labor, right? Equity should be outlawed.
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Brian Stevenson
@Ashitaka1110
I would have loved this as a 10 year old. License to goof off. Should work out perfectly. The left continues to expose that it doesn't actually care about education; it wants a population of ignorant, easily-manipulable puppet workers.
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