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Setting the minimum grade at 50% probably has more to do with this than anything. Inaccurately measuring students’ academic performance is a national trend to obscure just how various reforms and curricula changes over the years have not really moved the needle in how different groups do academically.
21 R captured my thoughts. I’m left to assume some things about this 50% floor but it seems like something to drill down on. Is the 50% granted for just showing up and thus “passing” is achieved by doing 10% of the assigned work correctly? That used to be a 10% grade – a clear F-minus. Barring more information, that’s exactly what this looks like to me.
Dumbing down of our US schools has been a worrisome liberal priority for some time. It has also shown up as these kids become adults. Instead of accepting cultural differences, we throw money, ideologies, and manipulated statistics at the education system to make it all look better, not be better.
As a former teacher I feel strongly that lowering standards is not the answer and will only end up hurting not helping the students. But that is common sense isn’t it?
I wonder how many of them can read.