School District Drops 'D' Grades 617
Students in one New Jersey school district will no longer be able to squeak by in class after the Morris County School Board approved dropping the D grade. Beginning in the fall students who don't get a C or higher will get an F on their report card. "I'm tired of kids coming to school and not learning and getting credit for it," said Superintendent Larrie Reynolds in a Daily Record report.
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Quick warning here, by correcting yourself you significantly reduce the odds of entertaining replies, thus reducing the odds of a coffee-spew-on-screen, thus reducing the number of new monitors needed. You sir, are wrecking the economy.
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I hate it when people make scales to grade something on, and then never use the damn entirety of the scale.
That, good sir, is because this scale can only be played in dropped D.
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They are not getting rid of 'F's they are getting rid of 'D's.
You have earned a 'D' for reading comprehension; And I think you know what 'D' means now...
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Or maybe they could assign letter grades, like A B C D and F.....
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>>Teachers are the whiniest most ill performing of any professsion.
Actually the ones in government are most ill performing.
If they actually did their jobs right, the parents wouldn't have to work 2 jobs to keep food on the table and would have enough time to actually spend with their children (whether they would actually spend that time with their children is another question though). Also if they did their jobs the teachers wouldn't be able to just pass kids cause they can. The "No Child Left Behind" program should be renamed to the "No Child Gets Ahead" program.
They need to fail the ones who under perform in the basic required stuff. Not pass them just to keep them going down the line, it is supposed to be an education, not a conveyor belt.But to be honest, they also need to understand that different people are better at different stuff.
Sorry, but I just had to throw in that last section, I am very good at math and science but always sucked at language. Did top of the class in the math and science classes (In high school I went through, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Algebra/Trig Honors, Pre-Calculus, AP-Calculus, Discrete Math Honor, Computer Programming Math 1, and Computer Programming Math 2) in high school and still passed the old english classes in high school (but man did I struggle in them). But wasn't able to finish college due to their requirements on a computer programming major. I was told by the teachers I was ahead of the school at the programming classes and math classes. But I was also forced to learn out to give oral presentations and learn a foreign language so I could sit at a computer terminal and program in english.
Also could not for the life of me figure out Financial Accounting, the thing makes no damn sense to me, you could be ahead millions or behind millions but unless you wanted to sift through 5 pages of stuff, it looked like you broke even at all times, what kind of Masochistic bastard created that thing?
PS:God bless spell check =)