The Post Millennial Reports: New "equitable grading practices," which forbid teachers from giving "zeroes" to students who cheat or fail to turn in homework, are being tested in Portland Public Schools.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that this new grading system strives to overcome "racial disparities" and "inequities" in grading and instruction, which the district first started to consider during the pandemic. According to the outlet, the guidelines are expected to be fully implemented by 2025.
The Portland Public Schools Equitable Grading guidance states that teachers are not allowed to issue "zeroes" to students who have either cheated or have missed assignments. Students are not to be penalized for late work and must be allowed to retake tests and redo assignments until they can demonstrate proficiency, according to the guidance.
In addition, teachers are not to include attendance and participation towards grades and are to decide a student's grade based on an equitable mean.
Portland Public Schools states in the guidance handout that "Historical data shows that there are racial disparities in our pass/fail rate in multiple subjects in both middle grades and high school. During the pandemic, we adjusted our grading to accommodate for some of the inequities in access to curriculum and instruction."
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disqus_tcMhXsphop
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Aug 31, 2023
yeah but wokeism opposes all opposittion and freedom its time we do what the Japanese government did to marxists in the early 20th century. and Emperor Meiji was right to Police marxims and imprison marxists
notwokeshows
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Aug 30, 2023
Because the United States is a free country. We value free-speech... even speech we disagree with.
disqus_tcMhXsphop
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Aug 30, 2023
then why dont we jsut use the same tactics Japan used to Crack down on marxism or the same type of tactics Stalin used before and during the cold war on dissent? every woke activists would've been imprisoned long ago if we did.
notwokeshows
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Aug 30, 2023
The motivation of the new policy is said "to overcome "racial disparities" and "inequities" in grading and instruction." This is such BS and a PRIME example of WOKE racism of low expectations. Rather than elevate underperforming students... they instead just lower the bar. Infuriating. https://media1.giphy.com/media/u4NptMUkV2za8/giphy-downsized-small.mp4