THE DALLAS ISD. WHERE ALL THE WOMEN ARE STRONG, ALL THE MEN ARE GOOD LOOKING, AND ALL THE CHILDREN ARE ABOVE AVERAGE.
The Dallas ISD has a new grading policy, to-wit…
- Homework grades should be given only when the grades will “raise a student’s average, not lower it.”
- Teachers must accept overdue assignments, and their principal will decide whether students are to be penalized for missing deadlines.
- Students who flunk tests can retake the exam and keep the higher grade.
- Teachers cannot give a zero on an assignment unless they call parents and make “efforts to assist students in completing the work.”
Sounds rather like this, doesn’t it?
Morons.
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August 17th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
While I wouldn’t mind having most of those policies in place for my own teenaged daughter, who has a problem getting assignments done, I can see that, in the long run, it’s not a really honest approach to learning/grading.
August 17th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Just seems like to me they might as well just give everyone an “A” and have done with it as long as they show up for class. I’m so glad I don’t teach any more.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
However, the spawn of Mycroft would have graduated from high school with honors had they not been so focused on trying to make him do the trivial exercises . . .