Feedback from kids is said to be mostly positive.

I'm shocked, shocked!

Things like turning work in on time and classroom behavior will now instead count towards a student's citizenship grade, not their academic grade.

I've happily gone Galt on anything related to parents and children, but this is hilarious.

Students will no longer be graded based on a yearly average, or on how late they turn in assignments. Those are just some of the major grading changes approved this week by California's second-largest school district.

Again -- Galt -- but if parents truly gave a shit about any of this, the district couldn't get away with it.

Regardless, it will make hiring decisions easier for HR managers of the future. "Turning in assignments on time" will be an asset rather than a given, and those who can't master that skill will be relegated to dancing at airport-adjacent bars, where they can fight over who has the right to the pseudonym "Cinnymon."

"Citizenship grade"? So, we've brought Deportment back?

These "progressive" school systems need to ask themselves, if we're not teaching students to behave in class, turn in assignments on time, and maintain decent grade average, what are we teaching them?

Is it the job of the school system to make students happy; or to challenge them and make them better citizens and better people?

“Regardless, it will make hiring decisions easier for HR managers of the future.”

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Unless those future HR managers are woke...

HR manager to job applicant: “How do feel about turning in reports on time?”

Applicant: “Fuck that! Deadlines are just a tool used by the white supremacist patriarchy to oppress people of color. Defund the HR Department!”

HR manager: “Perfect. When can you start?”

I'm shocked, shocked!

Is there gambling going on in this establishment?

I wonder how test scores stacked up back in say the 1940s under Jim Crow?

what are we teaching them?

That it's good to be in a Union.

If a bunch of racists were plotting how to kneecap minorities I don't think they could come up with a better.

If a bunch of racists were plotting how to kneecap minorities I don't think they could come up with a better plan.

"The soft bigotry of low expectations."

I guess I'm wondering what the pedagogy behind this is. There are lots of progressive private schools that do unschooling and the like, I'm thinking of the Sudbury Valley model, or Waldorf schools which tend to go at a more student-oriented pace, and they seem to get perfectly good results... are they backing this up with teaching methods to go with it?

I feel this experiment would be best tried first in a small environment where everyone knows each other.

"Paternalism has practical consequences. The unrelenting condescension supports blacks’ view of themselves as worthless. (If anyone doubts that poor blacks do indeed regard themselves as worthless, I suggest he spend some time with them.) People who think they cannot succeed do not try."

San Diego public schools are notoriously bad, not necessarily dangerous, but very poor academically. They're basically 'non-academic' except for a few wealthier areas in the northern county. This move is probably motivated more by the desire to evade accountability than any sincere interest in racial justice.

I'd lived in San Diego for nearly a decade, and left a few years ago. It's pretty much understood that public school kids won't be able to make it through college unless they start in community college or a similarly easy option, again the exception being the few good schools.