The Voice of San Francisco is reporting that San Francisco Board of Education Superintendent Maria Su has found a solution for the declining scores in the public schools: lowering the standards for better grades. It is known as the New Grading for Equity plan. That is far easier than actually teaching students to meet basic proficiency levels. Even in the uber-liberal district, parents were outraged and there are reports that the plan is now dead.
The Voice reports that:
Superintendent of Schools Maria Su plans to unveil a new Grading for Equity plan on Tuesday that will go into effect this fall at 14 high schools and cover over 10,000 students. The school district is already negotiating with an outside consultant to train teachers in August in a system that awards a passing C grade to as low as a score of 41 on a 100-point exam.
…It is buried in a three-word phrase on the last page of a PowerPoint presentation embedded in the school board meeting’s 25-page agenda…While the school district acknowledges that parent aversion to this grading approach is typically high and understands the need for “vigilant communication,” outreach to parents has been minimal and may be nonexistent….
Grading for Equity eliminates homework or weekly tests from being counted in a student’s final semester grade. All that matters is how the student scores on a final examination, which can be taken multiple times. Students can be late turning in an assignment or showing up to class or not showing up at all without it affecting their academic grade. Currently, a student needs a 90 for an A and at least 61 for a D. Under the San Leandro Unified School District’s grading for equity system touted by the San Francisco Unified School District and its consultant, a student with a score as low as 80 can attain an A and as low as 21 can pass with a D.
It is grading for equity rather than education.
The school district is not the first to “solve” the problem by lowering standards to guarantee greater success.
Public educators have continued to lower proficiency requirements and cancel gifted programs to “even the playing field.” The result has been to further hide the dismal scores and educational standards of many public school districts.
Teachers and school boards are killing the institution of public education by treating children and parents more like captives than consumers. They are force-feeding social and political priorities, including passes for engaging in approved protests.
Faced with abysmal scores, particularly for minority students, school boards and union officials have called for lowering or suspending proficiency standards or declared meritocracy to be a form of “white supremacy.” Gifted and talented programs are being eliminated in the name of “equity.”
At the same time, we have previously discussed how schools have been dropping the use of standardized tests to achieve diversity goals in admissions. Cal State dropped standardized testing “to level the playing field” for minority students.
The result is that colleges and universities are dealing with students who lack proficiency in basic subjects. This year, Harvard University was forced to introduce remedial, high-school-level math courses for its students due to falling scholastic standards.
Notably, this “Grading for Equity” plan was not revealed to the public, as the district reportedly set about training teachers on the plan while preparing for the likely backlash. All of this was easier than getting the teachers and their union to improve their performance. San Francisco has the third-largest expenditures per student at $23,654. Yet, they wanted to lower the standards to improve their statistical success artificially.
Of course, the losers will remain the students who graduate without basic proficiencies in an increasingly difficult job market. These administrators and teachers are leaving them in the same vicious cycle with little real opportunity to escape.
Yet, these same unions and teachers oppose every effort to fund vouchers to allow families to seek schools that can offer their children a real future. Democratic politicians have joined that opposition in preserving this failing system. The status quo has remained unchanged in these major cities for decades, as politicians replicate the same generational failures.
This is the predictable end of another Progressive success story. These teachers are badly prepared themselves and through guilt, perhaps, and/or lack of accomplishment, they have no courage to hold anyone accountable. So they engage in magical thinking. Like the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, if they can just get that diploma in their students hands, those kids will be reciting the Pythagorean theorem.
Jonathan: Sorry to break in but there has been a major court ruling in DJT’s tariff wars. A 3-judge panel, composed of a DJT appointee, one by Obama and one by Reagan, of the the little known Court of International Trade (CIT) just ruled that the Emergency Economic Power Act (IEEPA), which DJT used to justify his tariffs, does not grant the president power to impose such sweeping tariffs. The CIT ruling affects all of the DJT tariffs except those on steel, aluminum and autos. The response from the WH was swift. Stephen Miller once again went ballistic “The judicial coup is out of control” and he vowed the administration will appeal.
Now in a normal universe DJT would go to Congress, that he controls, and ask them to approve his tariffs. But DJT is not a normal president. He actually believes he is a King who can unilaterally ignore the Constitution and Congress when it suits him.
DJT is going to blow another gasket when he finds out who filed the lawsuit with the CIT against his tariffs. It was NY AG Letitia James and a coalition of eleven other state AGS. That’s right. James is standing in the way of DJT’s claim of absolute power. She is DJT’s nemesis and his blood pressure is probably off the charts about now! To paraphrase King Henry II: “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome attorney general!?”
Except that 1) [semantics] it was a Biden appointee, not Obama, not like there’s much difference. 2) Congress ceded tariff and foreign policy power to the Exec decades ago. 3) TrumpAdmin is already appealing the ruling, something a king wouldn’t do. 4) Henry was talking about a meddlesome priest. I don’t think he had any idea what an attorney general was back in 1170. 5) The Exec doesn’t have to listen to lower courts, only the SCOTUS, something a lot more people are on board with as this lawfare is so blatant, it’s the side of the barn you keep missing.
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Dennis.. Keep dreaming. Letitia James has far more worries right now. Like lying on home loans and other things
Ahhh dennis, seen the news report on David Hogg. He blew the horn on Biden auto-pen. It appears the staff was using it for everything. My can you spell TROUBLE.
Will no one rid us of these troublesome trolls?
” Sorry to break in”
Dennis, you are not sorry you are gloating, you have massive TDS and you get happy at the least setback to Trump
” but there has been a major court ruling in DJT’s tariff wars.”
Nope it is a minor ruling. It will have little effect, and it will be overturned on appeal.
First – there are several laws that provide the President Tariff authority.
Second there is prior history of Presidents imposing Tariffs without specific congressional authorization. The Reagan 45% tariff on Japanese Mortocycles just off the top of my head.
Next this decision is specifically limited to the IEEPA and is specifically limited to Tariffs.
Nothing prevents Trump from modifying the EO today and using the IEEPA to restrict trade with countries that have imposed Tariffs on the US. It is virtually certain there will be some response this week from the WH – either using the IEEPA in a different way, or using a different legal authority.
This is a MINOR speed bump at best.
It is also a very bizare decision – first the IEEPA gives the president BROAD power with respect to trade. There MIGHT be an argument that broad grant of power is unconstitutional. But that is NOT what the ITC ruled. They ruled that the broad powers granted to the president in 1977 did not specifically include the power to raise tariffs. It is a very strange holding. It is the opposite of the way courts normally rule. The court ruled that Trump has been given a CLUB not a scalpel, and that he can not use the CLUB narrowly. That he can block trade completely with these countries, or that he can limit trade, or do myriads of other things to constrain foreign trade under the IEEPA, but that he can not specifically use tariffs.
I would further note that once again the court did not have jurisdiction – none of the plantiffs have standing. The claim that congress did not give the president tarriff power must be made by congress.
The ruling is bizarre in so many ways – the court concluded that this Wine importer had standing because they will be harmed – they will be harmed. But they also will be harmed if Trump blocks all wine imports from the EU – which even by this ruling Trump has the power to do.
All taxes harm someone. You and I do not have the power to challenge the IRS merely because it is taking part of our income.
What is likely to follow this ruling is:
Trump issuing a new EO imposing the same tariffs under a different legal authority. There was legislation passed in 1962 under JFK that allows the president to impose tariffs. There is also authority under the TWEA that was passed under FDR, but some of that power was limited specifically by the IEEPA. The Major limit in the IEEPA is that the President must report to congress on any IEEPA use ever 6 months and congress can vote it down – again this court Erred because there is already congressional oversite.
Trump modifying the existing EO to instead of collecting tariffs to just stop some or all trade with these countries. That is already presumptively legal under the IEEPA, the IEEPA currently has almost 50 active invocations dating all the way beck to 1977.
Trump will likely appeal immediately and the order will almost certainly be stayed making the question moot.
Congress can and likely will act – as they are in the OBBB to clarify that the IEEPA includes tariff authority.
While there are many including republicans in congress opposed to THESE tariffs.
This ruling says that the president can not impose ANY tariffs for any reasons using the IEEPA.
There is ZERO chance that is not overruled or the IEEPA modified because that would give foreign nations the power to wreak havoc on the US economy before congress could act.
This is a meaningless phyric victory.
Expect it to have no impact beyond a minor speed bump.
It is NOT a major victory.
It is left wing masterbation, nothing more.
“Next this decision is specifically limited to the IEEPA and is specifically limited to Tariffs.”
Well Trump is using the IEEPA for all tariffs he imposed on every country. Citing an emergency without evidence of one seems to be the problem. Trump seems to think he can declare anything an emergency without having to prove it. Even Rand Paul pointed this out.
The whole thing hinges of what “emergency” means and it seems the courts will need proof that there is indeed an emergency.
Stopping some or all trade with these countries is not beneficial to our economy. It will just steer more business and trade deals to China and India. China has a huge manufacturing power and a very good supply chain infrastructure that we cannot compete with. We would be shooting our own foot just to spite other countries.
Canada can shut off oil to our refineries specifically configured to run heavy oil sands bitumen. China has the world’s larges shipping fleet and they can easily stop shipping U.S. goods to other countries. They can also stop all rare earth supplies to the U.S. There are alot of things we depend on from other countries and We don’t have a lot of leverage when it comes to trade.
Trump’s tariff policies are such a joke that Wall St. has an acronym for Trump’s trades TACO (Trump always chickens out). He’s been rolled over so many times and has blinked on so many threats its literally a joke among other nations. Trump is an idiot and it shows.
“Well Trump is using the IEEPA for all tariffs he imposed on every country.”
Correct, but he has other authorities. and tomorow if he choses he can use those.
“Citing an emergency without evidence of one seems to be the problem. ”
Nope Presidents do that all the time. Further Congress passed the IEEPA specifically to address that deficiency in the TWEA. The president has nearly limitless power to declare an emergency. There is ZERO judicial jurisdiction over a presidents declaration of emergencies. Not under Trump, not under Biden, not under Obama, not under any president. The holding in this case presumes the emergency is legitimate.
The holding is simple – the IEEPA does not specifically give the president the power to impose tariffs, that is a constitutional power of congress, therefore the president can not use the IEEPA to impose Tariffs. It is that simple. The holding is a single sentence.
The problem with the holding is two fold – The IEEPA gave the president pretty much limitless power over foreign trade, and that power is described so broadly that it MUST include the power to tariff. The second problem is that in atleast two – and probably several other laws the congress has already given the president the power to impose tariffs. The strongest reading of this decision – if it holds up under appeal is – Trump must do impose these tariffs using a differnet law allowing him to impose tariffs and there are plenty.
But I do not expect this decision to last long.
Why ? Because there are extremely significant problems if the president does NOT have the power to impose tariffs unilaterally. Without the power to tariff other countries could cause severe economic problems for the US before congress could act.
WE have a president who has all the executive powers of the nation for a reason, because you can not run much of anything, much less a country by committee.
Corporations have boards of directors, but the operation of the company is directed by the CEO. If the Board is unhappy with the CEO they fire him. But the CEO manages the company. That model is mirrored all over – because it works.
While governance by board of directors does not.
With specific respect to the IEEPA, another reason Trump will win on appeal is because the IEEPA unlike the TWEA and other trade related laws regarding the power of the president REQUIRES the president to report to congress every 6 months, and gives congress the oportunity to modify or undo whatever the president has done.
This is where your claims that you do not like Trump’s emergency declaration fail.
exactly 6 months from Trump signing the EO imposing these tariffs, That EO and emergency declaration will go before congress. Congress can say – this is not an emergency, or the emergency is over, or they can just vote down whatever Trump has done. The IEEPA was written this way because the TWEA granted the preside powers too broadly.
When this goes up on appeal, the lower appelate courts – or SCOTUS if it gets that far will declare this a “political question” and toss the case entirely. They will rule that lower courts do NOT get to intervene on an issue that is between congress and the president, where congress granted the power to the president AND granted itself the power to act if they do not like how that power is being used.
This is once again courts overstepping.
“Trump seems to think he can declare anything an emergency without having to prove it. ”
There is nothing unusual about Trump’s emergency declarations. There are gurrently almost 50 different IEEPA active emergency declarations and only ONE of those originated with Trump. Do you KNOW any of them ?
“Even Rand Paul pointed this out.” I like Sen. Paul, I likely agree with him far more than Trump. But the question of whether Trump can declare pretty much any emergency he wishes under the IEEPA is completely settled by the IEEPA itself. Shortly, sometime in July, Trump will have to report on this emergency and the response to congress.
And congress has the power to say “You have not proven your emergency, therefore we void it”.
“The whole thing hinges of what “emergency” means and it seems the courts will need proof that there is indeed an emergency.”
Not at all. The entire decisions is based on the courts failure to unnderstand that congress has delegated tariff authority to the president.
What constitutes an emergency is NOT part of the holding in this decision.
Further generally, but absolutely in this case the presidents declaration of an emergency is NOT REVIEWABLE by the courts. It is reviewable by congress. That is how the law was written. Trump has to prove to congress shortly that this emergency is real, and that his solution was wise. And Congress gets to decide if he has done so.
There is no obligation of the president to prove to a judge that his claim of an emergency is valid. That is even more so true in the arena of foreign policy.
That is entirely outside the domain of the courts.
Political questions are outside the domain of the courts.
This court reached its conclusion based on the law and the constitution – not questioning whether there was an emergency. While it erred in reading the law, it did not hold that there was no emergency – that is outside the courts power.
“Stopping some or all trade with these countries is not beneficial to our economy.”
No tax is directly beneficial to our economy.
Regardless, the president has the power under the IEEPA to stop or limit trade to some or all countries.
“It will just steer more business and trade deals to China and India. China has a huge manufacturing power and a very good supply chain infrastructure that we cannot compete with. We would be shooting our own foot just to spite other countries.”
Clearly you are clueless. China is in very serious trouble.
The model that has fueled their growth since Mao died REQUIRES their standard of living to be far lower than the US – a different variation of this problem is why Japan did not dominate the US in the 80’s as was predicted.
China has reached the point at which the competitive advantage of their somewhat lower wages is NOT large enough to justify manufacturing things in China.
Contra your claims China does NOT have very good supply chain infrastructure. They have an excellent passenger rail system they have a $hitty freight rail system. They have a $hitty trucking system. They have a pretty good port system – which is why nearly all Chinese manufacturing is close to ports. They also have an expensive and unreliable energy system. Everything made in China must be wharehoused in china, shipped to a port, shipped accross the ocean unloaded at a port, and then taken by truck or rail to where it is needed.
The US has the best and cheapest and most reliable energy system in the world.
We have the best and cheapest and must reliable freight transportation system int he world.
The US has the best logistics operations in the world.
Amazon is capable of delivering to your door overnight most of the time at little or no cost.
No other nation in the world can do that.
BEFORE Trump’s tariffs China was in trouble – increasingly manufacturing was moving out of China. In some cases it moved to the rest of southeast asia where labor costs are lower and those countries are trying to do what China did 40 years ago.
In other cases it is moving back to the US, where the slightly higher cost of labor is offset by lower shipping costs and much better and more flexible manufacturing.
On top of this China has a massive demographic problem. They do not have the people to continue their economy as it has been.
One of the reasons that we are very worried about China invading Taiwan is that China (and other countries) have a history of starting wars to hide their other problems.
If you would care to study China – there is plenty of information available – even most left leaning analysts agree with most of what I am saying.
Next, Europe has already told China to “F$%K off”.
Europe is teetering on the edge of recession they had problems before the Ukraine war, but in the past 3 years their energy costs have doubled, or trippled.
Europe is deindustrializing. Much of Europe is a mess. This has nothing to do with Trump.
But it is lunacy to think that China is going to shift its trade to Europe.
Europe can not increases its purchases from anybody.
The EU did not tell China F#$K you because they like Trump.
But because they just can not replace the US purchases from China.
“Canada can shut off oil to our refineries specifically configured to run heavy oil sands bitumen.”
Alberta has already told the rest of Canada “F$%K You” – that is not happening.
But even if it did it does not take that long to reconfigure a refinery, and there is more than enough oil to meet US demands in the US much less the western Hemisphere.
Conversely Canada can not sell its oil easily eslewhere.
It has no pipelines to the coast, and as YOU note the rest of the worlds refineries are configured wrong.
“China has the world’s larges shipping fleet and they can easily stop shipping U.S. goods to other countries.” I guess that is a reason the US should start building ships again.
Regardless, the US will not have any difficulty getting things shipped.
“They can also stop all rare earth supplies to the U.S.”
And the worlds largest Rare Earth deposits have been found in … Arkansas,
and what was it that Trump just negotiated with Ukraine – access to Ukraines rare earth resources.
I would strongly suggest reading Julian Simon’s the Ultimate Reources II.
https://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/
There has never been a shortage in human history that has not been resolved quickly.
And there never will be.
“There are alot of things we depend on from other countries and We don’t have a lot of leverage when it comes to trade.”
ROFL
Biden was an economic disaster as a president AND The US economy under Biden was the strongest in the world – two things can be true at once.
The US economy was even stronger under Trump.
Regardless, it is not the 70’s – the US dependence on other countries is low and declining.
While Trump has been wise enough to understand and possibly accelerate inevitable global pattern shifts – those shifts were “inevitable”. Global trade and global interests are shifting. The US’s primary ties are first to the anglo sphere, the UK, CA, NZ, AU.
Trump jokes about CA being the 51st state but there is a bit of truth that is what makes the joke funny. CA is no longer a country. It is a US dependency pretending to be a country.
It would take atleast a decade of massive effort to change that.
The NEXT focus of the US right now is the pacific rim – and increasingly the nations of the pacific rim that are NOT china.
The NEXT focus of the US is the western hemisphere.
We are not leaving NATO – but increasingly Europe is no longer high on the list of US interests. Trump is negotiating the Ukraine Peace deal, But in a decade the US will not likely care about conflicts between Putin and neighbors.
Europe will be a european problem.
Trump is negotiating mideast peace it is probable you will not like the peace he negotiates.
But as that is accomplished – US interests in the mideast will wane. It is NOT the 197-‘s anymore. We do not need or care about the Mideast.
Nor do we need or care about africa.
Slowly the focus of the US is shifting to the priorities I mentioned above.
These are our interests.
These changes will occur with or without Trump.
They did not start with Trump most continued through Biden. Even if Biden botched foreign policy.
The mideast Russia, and Africa are European interests and problems – not american ones.
“Trump’s tariff policies are such a joke that Wall St. has an acronym for Trump’s trades TACO (Trump always chickens out). He’s been rolled over so many times and has blinked on so many threats its literally a joke among other nations. Trump is an idiot and it shows.”
Trump is negotiating, And despite all the lawfare you throw at him – he is winning.
You threw everything you had at him in 2023 and 2024 – and now he is president.
You are continuing the lawfare as president – do you really expect a different result ?
You failed to take Trump out in 2023 ans 2024 when you owned the federal government.
Do you honestly think you are going to do better when Trump owns the federal governmen ?
Your nonsense is speed bumps. Worse it is pissinf people off – at you.
Purportedly Trump’s approval was Tanking – Yet Rasmussen has him at 53 – that is the highest he has been since February.
His approval moves up and down – but there is no Trend – nothing you have done has had long term impact. Meanwhile Democrats approval is in the tank – 27% I beleive.
Appeals court reinstates Tariffs.
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-ruling-that-trump-tariffs-are-unlawful-stirs-relief-uncertainty-2025-05-29/
This will likely be a long court battle, and this ruling is only temporary.
But my guess is that the stay of the lower court ordee will remain in effect as the courts mull this over and as each side kicks this up the chain until SCOTUS renders the final decision.
The key problem is that regardless of the outcome this slightly weakens Trump’s negotiations because some nations can drag out negotiations in hope that SCOTUS rules against Trump.
At the same time the longer that all this takes the more likely it is that Congress acts to make it clear Trump has this authority.
After decades of experimenting with society, culture, and economics, the prog/left is desperately attempting to cover up the disasters they have wrought. It may be difficult to find singular examples of things that they have not broken with their progressive and untested anthropological experiments in their fruitless attempts to “perfect” mankind.
This all started in earnest with ‘No Child Left Behind’. Then we had the dumpster fire known as ‘Common Core’. Now we have people training teachers who are themselves products of both (they are also now parents who don’t possess the skills or education with which they could help their kids). Throw in districts greedy for the money they receive for each student and a dose of woke progressive indoctrination, and I don’t see how this race to the bottom wasn’t inevitable, our entire education system needs to be rebuilt or at least returned to pre-department of ed form.
Anyone with a high school diploma, educated prior to the 1990s, let alone the 1970s, could effortlessly run circles around a modern Ivy League grad.
The purpose of the K-12 public school system is not education. The purpose is to provide easy employment for public school teachers who will then vote for, contribute to, and campaign for the Democrats. In return the Democrats will then protect the teachers from any measure of accountability or competition.
Don’t forget the public works project that is the education administration class, for those that can’t even not teach.
This problem is not new. In 1954 my parents moved us from San Francisco to Palo Alto to get better schools for us. My dad commuted to his job in S.F. for an hour each way on the train and my mom went to work to help cover costs.
A few thoughts come to mind at this early hour. The governor of Ca has plans to run for POTUS in the next election and bring the failed state governing model to the rest of the country. The public school system of SF, like many public school systems in the country is turning out students who will be unable to support themselves through meaningful work and become dependent on government for their financial support thus ensuring a new cohort of Dem voters. Some fraction of these students, where failing is the new norm, will turn to a life of crime in an effort to raise their standard of living. The Democrat party is currently flailing looking for a way back to dominance. They are focused on the finding the words which will convince the public to trust them again. Their problem is their policies, not the words they use. We know them by theirs policies and actions. We reject their deceit and manipulation. We see their failures in the once great cities and states they dominate like SF. The public education system is just one of the many institutions taken over by the Democrat party which degrades and corrupts all that it touches.
“The governor of Ca has plans to run for POTUS in the next election and bring the failed state governing model to the rest of the country.”
Most of your comment is spot-on, but if that prospect is intended to scare us, it doesn’t cut the mustard. Navin Gruesome has about as much chance of being elected President as a snowflake has of surviving in the cauldron of an erupting volcano…
They should be sued for malpractice. Seriously. Such an idiotic proposal does nothing less than cheat students, real human beings with a hope of a bright future from achieving their full potential.
This is either sever incompetence or a conspiracy to dumb down future voters so that they will do what they are told and not be smart enough to fight back.
Severe not sever
The Dumbing down of America. lol
Professor Turley writes, “San Francisco has the third-largest expenditures per student at $23,654. Yet, they wanted to lower the standards to improve their statistical success artificially… Yet, these same unions and teachers oppose every effort to fund vouchers to allow families to seek schools that can offer their children a real future.”
This is just education under modern liberalism. Now apply that to every institution, and you get the picture. Only silly, over-educated white people still believe in liberalism. All the other adherents are just seeking rents from the tax serfs.
Correct Title:
“Grading for Equity”: San Fran Public Schools Trigger Outcry with Plan to Lower Standards for Students too Poor to Leave the School System.
The rich white progressives will get their kids out and get their kids a good education.
Apparently, they’ve backtracked due to a groundswell of opposition…they’ve put it on hold for ‘the coming year’…no doubt they’re waiting for a Democratic administration….
No, they put it on hold to better explain it to parents who seem to think it means what others are telling them. It’s not what many think it is and that includes Turley.
Our kids are failing, to fix this we will lower the standards. Insanity. Who will higher these illiterate and ignorant children when they are illiterate and ignorant adults? They are not doing these kids any favors, but setting them up for a life of failure.
1-why does a plan as apparently stupid as this need a 25 page manifesto to explain how it works?
2-I wonder what the consultant contract is costing for training the teachers. I suspect a hefty amount.
3-Have they not researched this and seen its failure in other settings? Of course it might be that so many of their sister school systems are also not using standardized tests so no one really knows how anyone is doing. It would seem they are awash in a sea of ignorance.
4-does not the state of California have some standards that every school district must meet. And does not the state take over a school district if the school board fails to maintain a level of proficiency in its students.
5-I don’t live in California and never attended any school there at any level of education so I am ignorant of the efficacy of their high school teaching results. It would seem that looking at the performance of students from different school systems as these students enroll in California Colleges would be an adequate way to assess their secondary schools. Especially if you do not use standardized testing. Can anyone who reads this blog fill us in on the performance of college students from these school systems or is it even looked at.
This is not new, nor is it about equity. I encountered students who were graded ‘up’ to enable them to pass or ‘excel’ forty years ago and again thirty years ago, as well as a department head who assigned final grades, regardless of what the professor assigned, to assure the students did well ten years ago. In all three institutions it was not about equity; it was about the money. The more students, the more money; the more money, the better the administrator’s salary.
“ Kennedy responded that Harvard “is an elite university” and does not have to “look like America.””
Wow! He drank the kool-aid and he liked it!
San Francisco isn’t lowering standards for “minorities.” Asian students represent 37% of the school district, and generally excel academically. Hispanics are 31%; whites 13%, and blacks 6%. If you look at test scores and graduation rates, you will see that the school district is lowering standards only for Hispanics and blacks.
This already happens. My kid tutored writing at an ivy league.
You should see what is happening to Oregon schools.
They are passing kids who can’t read or do math. This nonsense will hurt the whole nation.
I saw a report this morning explaining AI has advanced to the level of an undergrad in college and improving rapidly. No mention of which undergrad standard was used.
I won’t be surprised if the Trade School industry replaces traditional high schools. K-8 will be it for core education requirements. There will then be a college track and trade track.
This was in place when I went to high school in the 60s. Sputnik had put the fear of God (and the Soviets) into the US and by the time I entered my sophomore year, students were being assigned to specific areas of study. I was in Scientific-Academic; but there was also Academic, Classical Academic, Vocational, General Business, Area Technical, Commercial Secretarial, and General. We also had mandatory gym classes (does anyone else remember the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and “Can’t pinch an inch”)? Interestingly, when I leaf thru my high school yearbook, there are no overweight kids. Also of note, I did not go to college until much later but I did not need any remedial classes..
Welcome to America, the land of hypocrites and frauds.
I wouldn’t blame America, it is just LIBERALS and LIBERALS are ruining or already ruined Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Venezuela and they are trying desperately to ruin America and Israel.
Liberalism ruins everything that it touches.
So true Hull, and it shows