Behold the new and thrilling “equity” policies in San Diego schools:
The practices being confronted – i.e., excluded from consideration in academic grading – include “turning work in on time” and “classroom behaviour.” Abandoning such standards is, we learn, an “accountability measure.” On grounds that acknowledging tardiness, unreliability and a lack of diligence results in “racial imbalance,” which, in the land of the bedlamites, simply won’t do.
Oh, and then there’s the problematic issue of disparities in cheating.
“acknowledging tardiness, unreliability and a lack of diligence results in “racial imbalance”
These employee characteristics result in getting discharged and standing in the unemployment line, regardless of race.
Either a worker sheds these characteristics or they will never get ahead in life, blaming their failure on racism notwithstanding.
In other words, Megan Markle should not be the life model that you emulate.
Our family has always thought that the K-12 school system is to prepare you to work in the modern world. I love the Human Resources language of “a loose attachment to the workplace” to describe the employee who does not show up for work on time, skips Mondays or just takes off in the middle of the day to do something else. Businesses cannot be run that way, but are “racist” if they expect certain groups to behave like their other employees who DO follow the business rules.
“These employee characteristics result in getting discharged and standing in the unemployment line, regardless of race.”
Not if they work for publik sektor. In publik sektor complaining about ghetto or turd world behavior at work results in the complainant fired or at least put through sensitivity training.
And since other branches of Peoples’ Soviet of Californiacate are working diligently to destroy private business this will be the new normal.
Why bother. Ignorance is bliss.
My thoughts EXACTLY….OWG.
CLOSE ALL SCHOOLS Permanently…DO IT NOW.!!!
(Just think of the TRILLIONS of savings on the Public Purse..)
meh, this is perfectly inline with GLOBALIST thinking…continue to DUMB down the populace and then at some point THIN out said populace such as to create their oft “creamed” for “sustainable planet”….you know, the one with only 1 Billion Humans..??
999,000,000 islamized drones catering to
1,000,000 PLanetary elites.
Fk your Vaccine…its either to sterlize you or make you STOOPID…(although that seems to be well under way looking at the tens of thousands of utter morons wearing masks everywhere they plod)
+++steakman, add to that the populace is already half stoned with the legal marijuana and the government wants to make it possible to buy hard drugs, jeez there really is no end to the stupid.
These changes will probably be the tip of the iceberg. They will do much to achieve the – greatly coveted – higher high school graduation rate, by boosting student grade averages. The state formulas used under Common Core typically allow a higher graduation rate make up for deficiencies such as low student reading proficiency, and turning an unacceptable school grade into an acceptable one. This allows the vast incompetency that reigns in school administration to continue unabated, allowing them all to get hefty raises every year, until they retire with a very fat pension, with full health benefits.
Oh, it also lets the leftist philosophies that destroyed the schools ( ie students who are aggressive and constantly start fights can’t be expelled because their lack of self-control is a disability ( meaning they are not at fault for not controlling their aggression.)
Unfortunately, government policy encourages that sort of thing as I kept encountering it at Armpit College.
The entire process was nothing but a continuous “customer satisfaction” survey, whether it was an instructor’s performance appraisal or for the “gravy” funding an individual department received. An institution or an individual department was assessed by a number of “key performance indicators”, whatever they were. I gathered that those included graduation rates (how dare anyone actually have standards!) and how “satisfied” the kiddies were once they got their magic pieces of paper.
Every department had enough funding to keep the lights on, but it was things “gravy” funding that were deemed important. The more of that was received, the “better” the department was perceived to be. It increased its status not just in the institution but also with its counterparts elsewhere. It could buy the newest, shiniest dinglehoofers, complete with flashing lights and racing stripes and, thereby, have bragging rights at having the latest and best equipment.
Worse yet, it gave the impression that the administrators of said departments were, somehow, effective in their jobs. (The ones in the department I was with weren’t, but that’s another story.)
It’s all about show and tell and advertising. Actual learning and personal achievement were of much lesser importance.
When I was an undergrad, I often had to work hard for the grades I received–the good ones, at least. When I received my B. Sc., I felt I actually earned it. I didn’t buy it when I paid my fees. My tuition was merely a ticket to the show, the rest being up to me.
I’m not sure how many actual racists there are in the US anymore, but they can now retire and whittle crosses. They will never be able to damage black America as thoroughly as the woke educators are doing, and liberals will actually cheer. I assume obozo is on side with this.
Yeah, just whittling crosses, and laughing and laughing…
My public schoolteacher wife was just “observed” holding her Zoom classroom by District officials of her large “urban” school district. The District officials appreciated all she was doing for her kids … but … but … reminded her to be mindful of … “student equity”. What “equity” were they speaking of? They reminded her to call on the little black boys in her classroom with the same frequency as all other students.
Right.
Those same little black boys who don’t need to do their homework, behave in class, or refrain from cheating. Call on them more …
Education official:
You called on little black boys
You embarrassesed them.
Racist.
You didn’t call on the little black boys.
You were non-inclusive
Racist.
You called on little black boys in a foreign language.
Standard English not Ebonics.
Bourgeois Racist.
Pretty much. Nailed it!
Let them proceed on this route to unemployment. Why bother educating those that will never be questioned ? Maybe they qualify by believing they are educated.
These policies have been in place since at least the late 1980s, which was when I started teaching at Armpit College. The result was that many of the courses I taught were a living hell for me.
The kiddies thought they could do whatever they liked and, worse, there were colleagues and administrators who supported them. Worse was that the student evaluations were often used as part of one’s performance appraisal.
I’m glad I’m out of that business.
Could you possible imagine what it would be like to be an actual teacher (custodian) at one of these schools. How could you get over the fear of going to the classroom every day knowing you could be physically attacked by one of your “students” and you are basically on your own? Maybe open carry would help.
The worst classes I had while I was at Armpit College were in service courses I taught for other departments. Both the students and the administrators treated them like a joke, a necessary evil to be endured in order that one acquires the magic piece of paper. After all, I wasn’t one of “them”, so why should my course material be taken seriously?
The contempt with which the students viewed my courses often extended to their conduct. I had many discussions with certain department heads about certain students and they simply washed their hands of the matter, claiming it was my problem and not theirs and simply refused to do anything.
It’s a wonder I didn’t become an alcoholic while I was there. I often had days where I would come home and having a stiff drink was mighty tempting. I’m sure, however, that some of my colleagues were pickled and, considering what went on in that nuthouse, I couldn’t blame them if they were.
The very lead up to introducing the “Basic Income”.
Dystopian future, here we come.
Perhaps at the end of your kindergarten year the child could be handed a certificate of completion and the parent could be handed a grade 12 graduation certificate with the attached message, “drop by the principals office anytime you want in the next dozen years and they’ll sign it, student attendance in school during the same period of time is optional.”
That’s not so far-fetched.
In one group I taught while I was at Armpit College, about a third of the students failed, largely because they were lazy and thought that since I was teaching a service course to their department, they could slack off.
A few weeks after I resigned, the graduation list was published in a local newspaper. Guess whose names appeared? Yup. When I saw that, I knew that I made the right decision by quitting.
Spare the rod, spoil the child, ruin the adult, cornhole society.
Let’s just admit it, having any standards at all is just plain racist. We can start the healing process of recovering from this damnable demanding of standards by getting rid of those racists who seem to believe that their having advanced degrees in education somehow qualifies them to have a say in educational policies. Replace all these credentialed educrats with homeless crackheads and let’s just see if the schools don’t immediately improve by getting rid of these standards.
In a YouTube video Jordan Peterson recommended we read Stephen Hicks on Postmodernism. I was intrigued because I had watched a few Hicks clips and found that I often preferred them to Petersons’, from which I often bail early. Peterson said that we really needed to know this stuff to fully grasp what’s going down.
SO, got this for my kindle. Only 10% in but so far it’s a page-turner. It’s extremely well written, highly engaging and meant for the ‘lay’ reader.
https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Postmodernism-Skepticism-Socialism-Rousseau-ebook/dp/B005D53DG0
Closing the institution down would do wonders for our children.
Young men,boys, know that society hates them.
For 12 years they are to be locked up in groups of 30 and hectored by creatures who openly hate.
Their crime?
Well nobody inside the institution considers their treatment as penal..Yet parents can be imprisoned for their child’s delinquency.
Families can be broken up,over the institutions definition of values..
And yet the “product” of 12 years indoctrination?
Unable to use basic skills.
Can’t read.
Cannot write (Make self understood in text)
Mathematics,as in addition,subtraction ,multiplication and division up to 144..Impossible..
But Oh boy they understand “Social Justice”..such great righteousness from poor children who do not understand Justice..
Education by Bureau is as successful as compassionate healthcare from the Department of Health.
The Bureaus do one thing well,steal citizens wealth for the benefit of the “helper”,so naturally the Department of Education knows better than anyone else,how to raise their children.
“I am an expert,shut up and surrender your wealth”
Including biological wealth.
The Parasitic Overload is a real thing.
One that has no interest in Your Children’s” future.
As they now openly seek to import replacement minions.
Only abused children would surrender so easily to the wage slavery being imposed upon them..
For their own good of course..
What did the Hair Apparent say?
“We,your government, have plunged you, the taxpayer,into massive debt…So you would not have to”??
I guess it’s private schooling was no better.
When I think back to my school days (admittedly, a rather long time ago now), I can remember one or two (literally) students that were actually quite bright, and when given the chance could shine academically. However their home lives (I assume…) meant that they suffered many of the aspects described – being late with homework, poorly done (obviously in a hurry) etc. etc.
Their classwork painted a quite different picture. Were I a teacher, I would have, in these very few cases, tended to discount the homework, and patchy attendance record and give a lot more weight to what I saw before my own eyes. I don’t think you can really codify this, because there were a larger number where the late/missing homework, poor attendance etc. pretty much matched what we saw in the classroom.
In those days, the certificates you left school with had a pretty direct impact on the type of job you would get, and how much it would pay. Giving that helping hand to those apparently deserving and in need would be a good thing. Giving it to the lazy no-good bums would not.
These days, of course, everyone gets a participation trophy, so the rules on how they get it really make no difference.
While at Armpit College, I had a number of students who had their share of difficulties.
One, I recall, was dyslexic. He spent some time on oil rigs before returning to school and, one day, he flat out told me that he didn’t want any breaks or favours. He never got any while he was a roughneck, so he didn’t want any in my course. He was one of my better students.
Another one, who was also older, was near the end of the term when his father died. He insisted on pushing through to the finish, despite his unfortunate circumstance, even though my colleagues and I were prepared to re-schedule his exams. He did quite well.
Then there was the student who called me to say that her daughter had run away and that her work would be delayed. After that, I spoke with her department head, who already knew about it, and we agreed to make any allowances for her that she might have needed. Her response startled me. She insisted on continuing with her studies because she felt they were too important for her. I recall that she did well in my course.
What those three had in common were that they were older and knew the value of what they were doing. They also knew that real life wasn’t always fair and that they had to deal with whatever problems happened to come along.
A few of the younger students in my courses were equally as dedicated and, unfortunately, there also a few older ones who behaved like complete jackasses.
When I was an undergrad in the mid-1970s, the system often took care of that all by itself. There was a lot of those who didn’t measure up were weeded out and they did something else. But, then, we also knew what was expected of us and there was a penalty if we fell short.
The racism of low expectations writ large and codified.
On grounds that acknowledging tardiness, unreliability and a lack of diligence results in “racial imbalance,”
That right there is one of the worst racist statements I have ever read. It says blacks not only are doing it now, but can never be expected to do otherwise. We will just have to forego all traditional virtues like punctuality, reliability, and diligence to achieve “racial balance.”
I said one of the worst racist statements because I think the contention that mathematics itself is racist rivals it in being racist. Or STEM. They may as well add logic, classical music, classical poetry, representational art, and anything else that requires discipline.