22 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  2. Perfect .
    They just made it official, no need to even turn up.
    As the never-shows will probably acquire a richer education than those putting in time in the institute.
    At least they are smart enough to not waste their time.
    As we have been seeing here in Canada, a grade 12 “graduate” has less skill than what we knew as grade 10 a decade ago.
    Resume qualifications of the future/present…
    Graduated (Insert video game of choice) top score xxxxxxx.?
    Or fastest texts to mommy…?…
    Best hall monitor ever?
    Yup liberal arts all right.
    The Art of lying, crying and living off other peoples effort.…
    ..

  3. That C grade for showing up will look great next to all of the participation trophies.
    Let’s hope this doesn’t eventually extend to mandatory C grades to medical and engineering grads, but don’t be surprised WHEN it does.
    The pussification of the western world is nearing completion.

  4. it’s a brave new world out there for the lumpenproletariat.
    From Wikipedia: “The Marxist Internet Archive writes that “[lumpenproletariat] identifies the class of outcast, degenerated and submerged elements that make up a section of the population of industrial centers” which include “beggars, prostitutes, gangsters, racketeers, swindlers, petty criminals, tramps, chronic unemployed or unemployables, persons who have been cast out by industry, and all sorts of declassed, degraded or degenerated elements.”
    Doing jobs that illegal immigrants won’t do!

  5. This puts them on par with the abilities of the illegals streaming in.
    No need to worry about getting a well paying job outside of California based on one’s scholastic record.

  6. This brings forward another problem. The kids who graduate under this system would not be able to transfer their academic standing to another school system. It pretty well guarantees that they’ll stay in California for life. Which leads on to other problems which everyone who reads this blog fully understands. A whole generation of idiots. God Help America!!!

  7. “And up in Calgary, Alberta, letter grades have been slated to disappear altogether in favor of a new grading scheme which uses the terms “exemplary,” “evident,” “emerging” and “support required.” School officials said the new evaluation system is intended to provide a level of precision that a numeric percentage, say, or an A or a C totally cannot.”
    Like, totally. It’s totally “evident” that ’emerging’ is more precise that ‘56%’.
    Those of us who’ve been paying attention know that the grade-school system, to put it politely, has failed, …, er, I mean, that it “requires support” (i.e., more money). The overwhelming evidence is that children “emerging” from high school are not only uneducated, but, with the help of policies that award grades of 50% for doing nothing, unemployable. It also explains why those who show up in first-year university classes are increasingly uneducable. Thus, while you weren’t looking, grade inflation and course content deflation have been the order of the day in universities for the last 20 years and more. (Why? As one dean recently put it, it simply will not do to fail 60% of first-year students, because their parents will phone him and complain! Couldn’t have that.) When certain smart alecks proposed what universities send failing first-year students back to high school for their reading, writing and reasoning remedial work, and that universities embark upon a campaign to show the public that universities cannot be universities when the grade-school system has failed, they were condemned as not being very nice! The result: universities are now doing the work that grade schools (I am not kidding) and high schools used to do. Good thing they’re free! At least, the better universities are. The majority, stuffed full with political proselytizers, not teachers, are doing much worse: promoting one or another hideous from of Marxism; intent on producing a culture of permanent government dependency.
    Public school is a form of child abuse. Universities are where you send your kids to become postmodern liberals. There is no remedy other than to shut them down, try to recall what education is, and to start over.

  8. The real kicker will be when the Teachers Union uses these higher grade averages as an example of teacher success in the classroom warranting higher salaries and benefits.

  9. I’m sure employers will be satisfied with a student who got 20% in math. Then again, it’s a fine way to ensure lots of LIV sheeple votes for statist politicians to ensure their power for generations to come.
    Maybe they could pass a law that 20% of the electorate are close enough.

  10. I’m finding this difficult to believe but for sake of argument I’ll assume it’s true (journalism seems to be becoming a career for students who can pass grammar, story telling and butt kissing but are miserable failures in logic, integrity, numeracy, etc. )
    The real tragedy is that the struggling students are not getting what taxpayers have paid for – an education that prepares them for adulthood, post secondary education and the work world. It’s incompetence and laziness by the education system. It’s much easier to ignore and cover up the learning problems of the students and/or crappy teachers and teaching methods than to fix the problem. You might get away with this in most subjects but science and especially math relies on students understanding previous lessons, cumulative knowledge. Even one year of failure will inevitably lead to more failure. Parents need to either confront the school system or provide tutoring.
    FTR, our school division uses a 1-5 grading system which is partially subjective. The difference between a 4 or 5 seems to be at the whim of the teacher’s feelings towards the student and their parents. It’s awful. When asked they give some BS about grading on whether the student meets, exceeds or is below the their own abilities based on the teacher’s opinion, as well as their actual test scores. There was a petition to add a percent of letter grade but, as usual, the parent’s wishes are ignored. At least there’s a private high school in the area.

  11. Note: I think students get actual grades in 10,11&12 so they have real marks to send to post secondary schools but I hear rumours they want to change that as well. Hopefully that’s just rumours because doing that would limit the students ability to apply to colleges and universities since most won’t recognize or accept the 1-5 grading system.

  12. Wow. Just wow. If you got only 50% in math, do NOT come looking to me for a job. Go back to BC/Caliafornicated and find a job. Growing dope or being a bum.

  13. Fear of failure motivated me, even though I hated school in my last two years of high school. It also motivated me for my finals at university, but I was also personally motivated.

  14. The US has a great leveler – SATs. To get into any meaningful post-secondary school everyone writes standardized tests and competes with other students for admission. No such thing in Canada.

  15. It’s even worse. IIRC “back in the day” in the HS school system I attended in the late 50s/early 60s an “A’=92-100, “B” =84-91 and a “”C” =76-83, “D”=68-75 and “F” anything 67 or below, a FAR tighter academic standard than even most of todays “better” institutions..

  16. “Your grade so far is based on two C’s, one facing right, another facing left.
    If you don’t do any work, the two C’s will meet and that will be your grade!”

  18. Raising the next generation of Low Information Voters, who won’t be able to read, and will put their “X” where they’re told to on the ballot.

  19. Just curious – why do you think growing dope doesn’t require any math skills? Figuring out how much liquid fertilizer to put in the water, what your yield is, etc.
    er.. or so I’ve heard.

  21. I witnessed this practice (but carried out quietly) in Nova Scotia over many years of visiting schools. I recall one small class of Grade X students registered in a course in ancient and mediaeval history. When I visited, all of the students were working on preparations for their driver’s tests. In speaking with the teacher, I learned that this was, in fact, the only thing they did in the course; also that, between court dates and appointments with social workers, in addition to their own extra-curricular pastimes, never more than half the students were in class on any given day.
    The successful drive to “increase rates of graduation” was built on such practices. I could accept giving our Nova Scotia high school diplomas like free candy or condoms, but the fact that the students in this course received a transcript with a passing grade for a course in ancient and mediaeval history symbolized for me what public education had become.

  22. I heard comments from Obama just the other day in which he expressed concerns that the education system put too much reliance on grades, tests and the actual learning of stuff and this had to change. One can only pray that years from now when he needs medical treatment for something that his doctor is one of his new style graduates.

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