The move is necessary, advocates say, because “traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities,” a slide used in a presentation said.
Students, depending on their race, will not be held accountable for missing class, misbehaving in school, or for failing to turn in assignments.
The West Cook News reported on the development:
Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF) administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.“Teachers and administrators at OPRFHS will continue the process necessary to make grading improvements that reflect our core beliefs,” the plan, set to begin in the fall of 2023, says.
School board members discussed the plan called “Transformative Education Professional Development & Grading” at a meeting on May 26, presented by Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Laurie Fiorenza.
[The plan] calls for what OPRF leaders describe as “competency-based grading, eliminating zeros from the grade book…encouraging and rewarding growth over time.” Teachers are being instructed how to measure student “growth” while keeping the school leaders’ political ideology in mind.
The article notes that according to the Illinois State Board of Education, 38 percent of sophomores fail the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
The failure rate was 77 percent for black students, 49 percent for Hispanic students, 27 percent for Asian students, and 25 percent for white students.
Margaret Sullivan, associate director at the Education Advisory Board, which consults colleges and universities, said teachers have to recognize when “personal biases manifest.”
“Teachers may unintentionally let non-academic factors—like student behavior or whether a student showed up to virtual class—interfere with their final evaluation of students,” Sullivan said.
Fiorenza called for the change after releasing a report that showed a spike in “F” grades in...
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So if a white person that was born with male genitalia identified as a black female they could skip class and only get 65%on testing and still be at the to of her class?
ReplyDeleteInsanity. If I had a white child in that school, I'd withdraw them immediately and either homeschool or send them to a private school. This is another step in the direction of abandoning public schools and sentencing minority students to an inferior or faux education. Might as well just send them into the penal system now.
ReplyDeleteThis is pure racism and will hurt the Blacks as no matter how they do in grading they will be tainted. It goes back to why do we still have Affirmative Action after so many decades, and many Colleges trying to cut certain minorities out from being accepted in due to high grades so race is not a factor.
ReplyDeleteHow is it possible to co-exist with a population that refuses standards of behavior and performance?
ReplyDeleteEven with an inflated diploma no job for you
ReplyDeleteWhen my girlfriend worked on a native reserve school, kids were exempted for a myriad of reasons we White folk would not understand unless we knew the native traditions. That was fine; it was a native school primarily staffed by Canadian natives. Here missing classes was perfectly understood when, for example, an Elder was passing. But then this was a native run school There were many such events in tribal tradition that we honestly do not understand unless we have ... learned.
ReplyDeleteMy Eurasian daughters were fully part of everything going and, although offered benefits due to their mixed status, refused them all, preferring to succeed on what they could do. And they have gone far in the academic world, on their own accomplishments.
But allow me to brag. I raised them that way.
In Canada a few years ago, the school board of one of the Eastern provinces lowered educational standards to be more.. er.. successful for folk of colour. Since then I have seen this phenomenon grow in the West. Not good but it is everywhere alas.
Let's say they are dumber without saying they're dumber.
ReplyDeleteGreat plan.