This is not how you raise your percentage of students who graduate
Seattle public school students may be able to graduate with a D average if a change in policy is approved by the school board.
Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson is recommending the board do away with a nearly decade-old requirement that all students earn a C average to graduate. The proposed policy change would also eliminate the requirement that athletes maintain a C average to play on school teams.
The high school diploma is already worth less than the paper it is printed on. The school district should be raising the policy standard, not lowering it. Their next step will be to hand a diploma to anyone who showed up 50% of the time.
With all of the early dismissals, late starts, teacher in service days, (ran into a teacher at an outlet store last year on one of these days – she said she loved them – used them as “power shopping days”), teacher conference weeks, teacher meeting days, and of course all the normal, always handy Friday and Monday holidays and spring, winter, mid-winter, etc. breaks, I would say showing up 50% of the time is more or less what is done now ….. with the approval/blessings of our schools unions,administrators and teachers.
There is very little need for this sham of a school “system” any longer. Their sole purpose, in my opinion, is to take our tax dollars and what they’re doing with those $$ is a complete mystery.
How could anybody take any kind of pride in their profession when you’re continuously lowering the job standards and dumbing down the end “product”?
This world gets more looney toons by the day ! Yes, this is one of my hot buttons – can you tell?