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.
“’Grading for Equity’: San Fran Public Schools Trigger Outcry with Plan to Lower Standards for Students”
– Professor Turley
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And you thought they would all simply assimilate while meeting the same high standards as Americans.
Now you know how—by lowering standards.
It is impossible to mix oil and water.
The mixture of oil and water can only be accomplished through the use of emulsifiers.
The political emulsifiers necessary for political mixture and assimilation are standard lowering, grade inflation, welfare, food stamps, affirmative action, quotas, forced busing, SNAP, WIC, Medicare, Obamacare, public housing, unfair fair housing laws, discriminatory non-discrimination laws, etc., etc., ad infinitum.
In the once-free America of the Founders and Framers, it was merely merit that mattered.
When was the start of the downfall of our education system in America? I say it’s when the tikes of the greatest generation grew into adulthood. Education has become the education of feeling over knowledge, oh you poor baby, here’s a consolation prize for you, you’re not a winner but be proud of your eleventh-place finish. The American parents are feed poorer and poorer results annually, and if they were to listen, they could hear the Zoom, zoom of other societies pass them by. I’ll say this; the adults in their 40’s and 50’s should be concerned with the ever-increasing poor education results, who is going to look after them in the elder years, (a bunch of numskulls? )?.
I’d also say without hesitation; the UNION’s are the largest result of what is now prevalent system wide.
https:///www.encyclopedia.com/education/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/teacher-unions
Have you been in a classroom of entitled pupils who’ll sit there and not pick up a book, press a key and challenge the teacher – teach me. I’m paying you. Then a scissors are hurled across the room barely missing a child because she ducked and teacher says, thank you for ducking. Teacher is called into principal and verbally beaten because Tim is failing and it’s all teachers fault. Have you ever been in a classroom and pupils refuse to stand for flag salute and then say we don’t speak English. We pay you. Learn our language. Children falling into comas in class because mom gives random shots of insulin. Children asking for food because there’s none at home and parents left them alone. Children with cigarette burns and black eyes and broken bones and children with profound disabilities wheeled into classrooms because of inclusivity.
Test scores…
Have you seen these things?
I’ll pay $5,000 to the first reporter to ask Trump if he likes TACOs
Taco salad you dummy… at the Trump towers.
The most surprising thing about this is that Harvard was actually able to identify the need for remedial training.
After James Comey issued his social-media call to assassinate the president, there have been hundreds of copycats. The FBI is now having to take agents off investigating drug traffickers, child sex traffickers, and terrorists to deal with all of these cases. James Comey is evil.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1927853830240153946
Figures. Can we please arrest this moron
Has anyone seen Franke lately? Perhaps we should make a call to the FBI on his behalf.
HAHAHAHA….
“You know that one of the two political parties is, let me put it nicely, white supremacist adjacent—at a minimum.”
– James Comey, FBI Director
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“Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support…”
– Peter Strzok, FBI Agent Under Comey
Education-wise, they’re turning San Franciscans into stupid hillbillies. Next, they’l be voting for the Orange Moron.
Yo, idiot troll, Trump isn’t running again.
HAHAHAHA, yeah never know. It sure makes the left go nuts when anyone brings it up
If they keep this up Americans will become just as stupid as are the majority of everyone south of our border. You DO NOT LOWER GRADING SO THAT STUPID KIDS CAN PRETEND THAT THEY ARE SMART. CONSIDERING WHAT THE BOARD ARE CONSIDERING, I’D SAY THEY ARE ALREADY PART OF THAT SICK DEI PROGRAM, “STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES” !
Now listen up Gomers, Dumbing down society to make it feel better about its failures will only reveal what we known for a very long time. There is no way in hell you can take a low IQ individual and turn them into a budding intellectual. Ain’t gonna happen my friends, so wake up and understand we do not all come out of the same molds, and we’re as different as can be and will not be satisfied with being a robot without feelings.
@Anonymous
You are not wrong. This is going to be a big, big problem in the (near, creeping ever closer) future, and it’s one virtually no one is looking at, or even willing to discuss, because in many instances it reflects poorly on them.
The future may not be entirely predicated on the past, but you’d better bet your a** it’s predicated on the present and the choices we make. Those of us that know better will not live forever; eventually, there will be no one remaining with a connection to anything we value to teach others. I think the modern, nihilistic left pretty much counts on that, just Like Mao and others did, literally throwing older people with memories off of cliffs. Make no mistake – we need a drastic turnaround and right now. This is not hyperbole.
Are you talking to the dem/lib party. They are the ones pushing this mess
The schools have no choice but to pass everyone.
Back in the 1950s, if you were stupid enough to be “held back a year” you would then be one year older than everyone else in you class. This gives you a height and weight advantage over your classmates. Get held back a second year and you can be a full-fledged thug or bully. Extorting lunch money and things much worse.
The only control was the gym teacher would take the thug into the locker room and convince thug to change their ways. They don’t make gym teachers like that anymore.
Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, has announced she is running against Lindsey Graham.
She says:
I’m Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.
https://x.com/AnnieAndrewsMD
I love this woman !!!!!
Can’t wait for the debate !!!!!
Is that you, Dr. Andrews?
Just what South Carolina and America need: a rabid, radical activist, man-eating, misandrist feminazi who is literally positionally vacuous but full of hyperbole and bullsh-t!
Now I get it. The student in San Francisco “graduates” high school with a “D” average (defined as a grade of 21%) having demonstrated that he or she has not learned 79% of what has been taught, and then is not sufficiently educated enough to get a job that pays enough to support him or herself, and goes on unemployment. As an unemployed able bodied worker in California, they are then eligible for healthcare coverage through Medicaid, for which the federal government pays 90% of the cost that is funded with borrowed money, adding to what is becoming unsustainable debt. And to achieve this result, according to the California Department of Education, the average California teacher’s salary for 2023-2024 was $101,084, and can average more than $136,000 for high school teachers in large school districts. Extrapolating these results, at this rate the Chinese Communists will not need to go to war with the United States, they just need to wait us out while we destroy ourselves from within.
Uhhhh… who is this supposed to help? I’d say unbelievable, but I’m no longer surprised (sadly) by the insanity.
“Who is this supposed to help?” Equity-mongering exists to help virtue signalers feel good by exploiting perceived victimhood. It is the lowest form of inducing guilt.
It’s obvious who it is supposed to help.
The SF school district is completely on board with Trump’s plan for America.
We need vast numbers of uneducated kids to fill the low skill, low wage jobs that Trump is bringing back from China to Make America Great Again
Go MAGA !!!!!!
^ Paid communist troll. Ignore ^
Wrong.
Some jobs will be more manual labor, but they will be good paying, working class wages.
Other jobs will be requiring higher levels of intelligence, skills or education. Those will pay better.
What will be happening is states that keep and maintain high bar on K-12 education, companies will want those graduates and offer them jobs. Those states that lower the bar on education, passing children who cannot even read their own diplomas, will be unable to get those jobs, end up working in fast food, unemployed, homeless or in prison.
Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years
“Teams and facilities to expand in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, and Washington
Plans include a new factory in Texas, doubling the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, a manufacturing academy, and accelerated investments in AI and silicon engineering”
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/
Johnson & Johnson Increases U.S. Investment to More than $55 Billion Over the Next Four Years
“Investment builds on almost 140-year legacy of improving and saving lives and supporting American jobs
Includes four planned new manufacturing facilities, with ground-breaking today in North Carolina on $2 billion+ facility
Total Company U.S. economic impact estimated to be more than $100 billion per year”
https://www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/johnson-johnson-increases-u-s-investment-to-more-than-55-billion-over-the-next-four-years
That is where you are ever so wrong.
As we all know, jobs coming back to America will not be low skill or low wage jobs. They will be at least well paying, working class jobs. Then there will be other better paying skilled, higher education jobs.
What are lowering the bar education, K-12 education, progressive agenda, offering? The dumbing down of America high school grads. Meanwhile those states, cities and towns who keep to a higher bar than the progressive agenda, will have a higher graduation rate to real terms and a better employment rate. We will have Red States that have higher employment rates, higher living standard rates than blue state, cities or towns as their lower bar high school equality students cannot read or do math.
As the failed states of CA or OR have proven, the progressive agenda is nothing more than a road map to failure.
How marvelous!
MAGA states will continue to produce, educated, skilled workers. Workers companies will want to employ. Blue states will continue to produce low bar education graduates who cannot read, write, do math or communicate effectively who are not employable. No one will want to hire them. Blue states will become the third world countries of America. And they are doing it to themselves. We are seeing it happen right now.
How marvelous!
No student should advance past 6th grade without proven proficiency. Period.
A solid 6th-grade education: reading, writing, math, and civics is the minimum every child deserves. Until students meet that bar, upper grades should stay empty. Fire unneeded teachers; rehire only when students earn their way up.
Once students reach 6th-grade level, offer vocational schools that teach trades and job skills. That provides a future, unlike many college graduates who are buried in debt and jobless.
The system fails because teachers and the school system aren’t held accountable. That must end.
S. Meyer
As usual you are absolutely wrong.
We don’t need ANY kids to advance beyond 6th grade.
We don’t really need any educated kids at all.
All we need are vast numbers of uneducated kids to fill the low skill, low wage jobs that Trump is bringing back from China to Make America Great Again
Go MAGA !!!!!!
^ Paid CCP troll. Ignore. ^
He is too stupid to be a paid troll.
Wrong.
Some jobs will be more manual labor, but they will be good paying, working class wages.
Other jobs will be requiring higher levels of intelligence, skills or education. Those will pay better.
What will be happening is states that keep and maintain high bar on K-12 education, companies will want those graduates and offer them jobs. Those states that lower the bar on education, passing children who cannot even read their own diplomas, will be unable to get those jobs, end up working in fast food, unemployed, homeless or in prison.
Hyundai Motor Group Commits to U.S. Growth with USD 21 Billion Investment
“The Group to invest a total of USD 21 billion in the U.S. from 2025 to 2028
USD 9 billion to expand U.S. automobile production to 1.2 million units annually
USD 6 billion to enhance parts, logistics and steel business, increasing the localization of auto parts and strengthening supply chains
USD 6 billion to expand future industries and strengthen external partnerships and energy infrastructure, including EV charging
Investment is expected to create more than 100,000 direct and indirect job opportunities by 2028, including 14,000 direct full-time jobs”
https://www.hyundainews.com/en-us/releases/4404
Does anyone think that these billion dollar companies are unable to create their own workforce?
You are one of those uneducated kids, and look what it got you. You have nothing, and you are stupid. Next year you will be stupid as well. That is the story of your life.
That is where you are ever so wrong.
As we all know, jobs coming back to America will not be low skill or low wage jobs. They will be at least well paying, working class jobs. Then there will be other better paying skilled, higher education jobs.
What are lowering the bar education, K-12 education, progressive agenda, offering? The dumbing down of America high school grads. Meanwhile those states, cities and towns who keep to a higher bar than the progressive agenda, will have a higher graduation rate to real terms and a better employment rate. We will have Red States that have higher employment rates, higher living standard rates than blue state, cities or towns as their lower bar high school equality students cannot read or do math.
As the failed states of CA or OR have proven, the progressive agenda is nothing more than a road map to failure.
How marvelous!
MAGA states will continue to produce, educated, skilled workers. Workers companies will want to employ. Blue states will continue to produce low bar education graduates who cannot read, write, do math or communicate effectively who are not employable. No one will want to hire them. Blue states will become the third world countries of America. And they are doing it to themselves. We are seeing it happen right now.
How marvelous!
S.Meyer: You seem to be assuming that the sixth grade teacher has proficiency in 6th grade reading, writing, and math. Many years ago during parent-teacher night I asked my daughter’s 6th grade teacher to explain the rationale behind a new method that she was using to teach 6th grade math because even I, with an advanced science degree, did not understand the reasoning behind the method. The teacher admitted that she too did not understand the method, nor was she required to understand it. She just was expected know how to teach it. My daughter was soon enrolled in private school.
Necessity drives invention. A hungry stomach doesn’t wait; it finds a way to eat.
You’re right, Vincente. We’ve got to stop relying on the government to educate our kids. We need options: vouchers, charter schools, homeschooling, private and religious schools, whatever gets the job done for each child.
My wife and I both have advanced degrees in STEM, and we ran into the same problem. We put the kids into one of the best and most expensive schools in the state. It wasn’t easy on the budget. I’ve said this before, but it still hits home: one day, while writing out a massive tuition check, I stopped and asked my daughter, just to test if the school was worth it—“Who was the first person to get close to the modern estimate for the Earth’s circumference?” She said, “Eratosthenes.” I signed the check.
OT
Yet another judge blocks tariffs entirely without authority or legal basis.
Lincoln was a great president; Lincoln imposed martial law.
President Trump is now compelled to impose martial law as Lincoln did with full authority.
Dear Mr. Turley, all I can say is “poor Dennis”!! I feel sorry for this poor soul. Anything and everything is seen through his severe case of TDS. Perhaps he hasn’t seen the latest polling where 54% of the American people believe the Country is heading in the right direction? What is he going to do once Mr. Trump is out of office? His years of twisted thinking will get the better of him. It will not be a pretty sight!!!
America headed in right direction – before this week that has never happened in 20 years of polling. Now, even 36% of Democrats say that. Wow!
Jonathan: The Emperor has no clothes. At least that’s the consensus on Wall Street. They now call DJT Senor “TACO” which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out”. That’s a reference to DJT’s on/off again tariffs (which the CIT just declared illegal), caving in to demands from certain countries and industries that tariffs on them be paused. So far it has worked every time. It’s also an allusion to DJT’s inability to end the Russia/Ukraine on “day one”. Neither Putin nor Zelensky has caved in to DJT’s demands. Putin treats DJT like a clown or puppet. Putin ignores DJT and demands an end to the war on his terms.
The Chinese treat DJT like a “paper tiger”. DJT mistakenly thought China would cave in the face of 145% tariffs. China reciprocated with their own tariffs and forced DJT to back down in the face of the evaporation of shipments of Chinese products to the US. China has ignored DJT’s threats and is building alternative trading partnerships around the world.
DJT is an empty suit. His entire persona is based on bluster, bravado and threats. Canada, the EU, Australia, South Korea and Japan are all on to DJT’s scam. They understand that all you have to do is wait DJT out. When confronted DJT always caves!
Then why did the Chinese send a secret delegation weeks ago to negotiate a trade deal? Someone got a picture of the delegation and the Chinese demanded it be deleted.
Another grading scam schools use is Standards Based Grading which generally provides that no grade can be less than 50% spend the year staring out the windows, picking your nose and doing nothing else and you still get 50% on your grade.
Strangely , the schools don’t use a similar system in sports. Miss a basket and you don’t get any score…not 50% of what you would get if you made it. But there isn’t a big demand for affirmative action in sports either. We don’t see a ‘fair’ proportion of midgets playing basketball.
The woke mind virus has spread to the sports world. Give it time, it will get to where you get 1 point for a shot that misses, and there will be many more such shots because there will be a “fair proportion of midgets playing basketball” as you colorfully expressed it.
OMFK
Are you no longer interested in discussing the wonderful job the SF school district is doing by producing the uneducated kids needed to fill all the low skill, low wage jobs that Trump is bringing back from China to Make America Great Again
Go MAGA !!!!!
^ Paid Communist Chinese troll. Ignore. ^
Wrong.
Some jobs will be more manual labor, but they will be good paying, working class wages.
Other jobs will be requiring higher levels of intelligence, skills or education. Those will pay better.
What will be happening is states that keep and maintain high bar on K-12 education, companies will want those graduates and offer them jobs. Those states that lower the bar on education, passing children who cannot even read their own diplomas, will be unable to get those jobs, end up working in fast food, unemployed, homeless or in prison.
That is where you are ever so wrong.
As we all know, jobs coming back to America will not be low skill or low wage jobs. They will be at least well paying, working class jobs. Then there will be other better paying skilled, higher education jobs.
What are lowering the bar education, K-12 education, progressive agenda, offering? The dumbing down of America high school grads. Meanwhile those states, cities and towns who keep to a higher bar than the progressive agenda, will have a higher graduation rate to real terms and a better employment rate. We will have Red States that have higher employment rates, higher living standard rates than blue state, cities or towns as their lower bar high school equality students cannot read or do math.
As the failed states of CA or OR have proven, the progressive agenda is nothing more than a road map to failure.
How marvelous!
MAGA states will continue to produce, educated, skilled workers. Workers companies will want to employ. Blue states will continue to produce low bar education graduates who cannot read, write, do math or communicate effectively who are not employable. No one will want to hire them. Blue states will become the third world countries of America. And they are doing it to themselves. We are seeing it happen right now.
How marvelous!
The couch potato and his couch will be getting the gold next olympics.
dennis..
Seen the new. David Hogg has told the truth. The White House staff was using the auto-pen for everything.
Here that sound, it closing of the prison door.
This is the kind of low-life violent, ignorant Antifa protesters San Fran is hoping to create. They surround a mother and baby trying to do violence to them, then call the cops “pigs” when they protect them:
https://x.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1927549026771362126
Oldman–
Unfortunately, when the cops do their job the critical legal theory judges use restorative justice to return them to the streets with a pat on the back.
At some point citizens will preempt the broken legal system and take justice back into their hands. It needs to turn around soon.
I think it’s changing. We are peaking at the love fest for Mangione and assassinations. Where else can the country go? Revolution? We need to hold course with a firm grip and give it time.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/opinion/miranda-devine-the-lefts-assassination-fixation-only-further-normalizes-political-violence/?utm_campaign=nyp_postopinion&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20250529&lctg=62680bbe38a279b1870b18c5&utm_term=NYP%20-%20Post%20Opinion
Miranda Devine: The left’s assassination fixation only further normalizes political violence
I remember the assassinations of the Sixties and they produced nothing but horror and disgust for nearly everyone in the entire country. We thought the country was better than that. In fact, it is better than that and the cheerleading for assassination chic in the Left and among Democrats and Hollywood zombies is revolting to the rest of us. The movie people wonder why they are losing audiences and the Dems wonder why they are losing voters, but perhaps it is because they have grown repellent.
Grading for equity is an oxymoron….or maybe the people proposing this are just plain old morons.
This is a significant piece of journalism. The interview is 2 hours long and worth the time.
The segment is the ‘piece of the puzzle’ that connects a lot of the dots together; Russia Gate, Muller-Comey-HRC (Sec. of State), Soros, NGO’s, Think Tanks, Markets, The Crimson Blob, …
[This is Part-2 of a three part interview with Mike Benz on the Tucker Carlson Network.]
Part-2:
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump
Mike Benz on how NGOs run the world on behalf of a small number of very dangerous people.
By: Tucker Carlson – TCN ~ May 28th 2025
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-mike-benz-3
If you absolutely don’t have time to see the whole video, start here at ( 1:12:40′) the second half to the end (~ 1 hour). – It will leave you speechless –
Video: (NOTE: view Harvard related dialog beginning at: 1:12:40′)
https://iframe.cloudflarestream.com/f15482c7abf61e7604cd26e99d5f23e2
Instead of lowering standards, they should require remedial education fot those students that fail to make the grade.
No, no, no
Not at all.
We NEED those failed kids to fill all the low skill, low wage jobs that Trump is bringing back from China to Make America Great Again.
Go MAGA !!!!!
^ Paid Chinese troll. Ignore. ^
And a full blow lefty too
That is where you are ever so wrong.
As we all know, jobs coming back to America will not be low skill or low wage jobs. They will be at least well paying, working class jobs. Then there will be other better paying skilled, higher education jobs.
What are lowering the bar education, K-12 education, progressive agenda, offering? The dumbing down of America high school grads. Meanwhile those states, cities and towns who keep to a higher bar than the progressive agenda, will have a higher graduation rate to real terms and a better employment rate. We will have Red States that have higher employment rates, higher living standard rates than blue state, cities or towns as their lower bar high school equality students cannot read or do math.
As the failed states of CA or OR have proven, the progressive agenda is nothing more than a road map to failure.
How marvelous!
MAGA states will continue to produce, educated, skilled workers. Workers companies will want to employ. Blue states will continue to produce low bar education graduates who cannot read, write, do math or communicate effectively who are not employable. No one will want to hire them. Blue states will become the third world countries of America. And they are doing it to themselves. We are seeing it happen right now.
How marvelous!
It was called (Summer-school)
Public educators have continued to lower proficiency requirements and cancel gifted programs to “even the playing field.”
This is how Western Civilization dies.
I believe that is the goal. Crush it into dust and build it back up as a communist dystopia with the left-wing elites in charge of the miserable masses. Remember: you’ll own nothing, you’ll eat bugs (their words).