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10-12-2009, 09:02 PM #1BANNED
Seattle schools may lower passing grade to D!!!
Seattle Public Schools may do away with a nearly decade-old requirement that all students earn a C average to graduate, and an even-older policy that athletes maintain a C average to play on school teams.
If the School Board approves recommendations endorsed by Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, as well as most district high-school principals and counselors, a D average will be good enough to earn a high-school diploma. Student athletes would need to pass five of six classes with D grades or better.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...grades16m.html
And Society gets lazier and stupider..... Why not just lower it to an F, seriously in fact just do away with grades and hand out diplomas like toilet paper, they will be just that useless....
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10-12-2009, 09:33 PM #2
For as long as I have been alive D's have been passing, even a D-. Even when My Grandparents were in school a D was passing.
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10-12-2009, 09:48 PM #3
People complain about the level of education in this country and that jobs are being sent overseas where better educated people will do the same work for less pay (tech jobs, etc), yet they turn around and lower the standards students have to meet. If you support things like this, Seattle, you have no right to complain when yer kids r teh dumm.
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10-12-2009, 09:51 PM #4BANNED
Indeed I totally agree
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10-12-2009, 09:54 PM #5
This is a very poor move by the district but it probably is in response to No Child Left Behind and an attempt to make their stats look better. I doubt any teacher is supporting this and its being pushed only by the school board and the administration.
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10-12-2009, 09:57 PM #6
A big thanks to No Child Left Behind, a lack of parental involvement, and shrinking school budgets.
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10-12-2009, 10:12 PM #7
High School Grades have nothing to do with getting good Tech jobs. I dropped out of School got my GED and picked up Three IT Certifications and have been offered jobs in NYC through Nissan, IBM, and JP Morgan.
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10-12-2009, 10:15 PM #8
Also i might add that some of the Top students that i went to High school with are now working for $9/hr at the dollar tree as a "manager", working at KFC etc. Its about your attitude and direction.
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10-12-2009, 10:50 PM #9
There's a big push for this w/in education. Many experts recognize the need to incorporate technology into the curriculum. Not everyone needs to write a 8-10 page research paper but the skills represented in the paper can take a different from through technology.
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10-12-2009, 11:03 PM #10
Congrats, that's very commendable, but I'd be willing to bet you're in the minority. In general, someone who does better in school (no matter what field, I was just using tech as an example) is going to be more successful than someone who barely passes or doesn't...and a lot of it is attributable to exactly what you said, attitude and direction. If someone is driven to succeed in school, that drive is usually still there once they leave school...and if it's not there in school, most of the time it doesn't just appear all of a sudden once they graduate. There are always exceptions to the rule, I've seen them myself, but they are just that, exceptions.
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