Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Slippery Slopes, Greasy Grades

Naturally:
The proposed "safety net" that would prevent a school's A-to-F grade from dropping more than one letter grade in a year amounts to "grade inflation" and should not be adopted, according to Jeb Bush's education foundation.

In a letter sent to members of the State Board of Education on Monday, Bush's foundation urged board members not to continue in 2013 the rule that prevented 2012 grades from being any lower than one letter grade from a school's 2011 mark.

"If a school earns a D, but receives a C, who is helped by this grade inflation?" wrote Patricia Levesque, executive director of the Foundation for Florida's Future, in a letter to the State Board. "It certainly won't be the students because the districts will be under less pressure to director resources and assistance to those who need it."
A school falling one mark instead of two could be hidden by crooked money-hoarding school principals and untrustworthy Board fatcats slurping at the public trough, not to mention completely missed by legions of parents unable to tell A from B because of illiteracy or diabetic blindness. I think that covers everyone.

Naturally if a school's chess club is wiped out by an AR-15-toting chickenshit standing his ground the school should be PUNISHED PUNISHED PUNISHED for daring to teach the surviving clods about how awesome Thomas Jefferson is.

The point is to destroy the public schools sooner rather than later, because obviously an influx of students whose first language is not English must inevitably mean that all teachers and administrators are drunken layabouts wasting YOUR MONEY, CITIZEN. The marketplace will provide the solutions that take education up up up into the stratificationsphere.

4 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

The point is to destroy the public schools sooner rather than later, because obviously an influx of students whose first language is not English must inevitably mean that all teachers and administrators are drunken layabouts wasting YOUR MONEY, CITIZEN.

Rahmbo is working on that, too. Although in his case, it's because there's money in it. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs, etc.
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ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Furthermore:

Just to remind you: tax increment financing is the program in which the mayor jacks up property taxes in the name of things you want—like schools and police—but then spends the money on things you don't want, like the basketball arena for DePaul.

He does this under the guise of eradicating blight in low-income communities, which wind up receiving a relative pittance of the TIF money.

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Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Naturally if a school's chess club is wiped out by an AR-15-toting chickenshit standing his ground

Why am I picturing some dude saying "CHECK AND MATE!" in a fake Ah-nuld voice?

Substance McGravitas said...

That's probably because you are funny.