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Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education. (media.piefed.world)
submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

currently have a stack of students' academic records on my desk, the state of grading in the U.S. is just insane. I hate GPA with a burning passion. Very talented kids burn themselves out over a number that might as well be set arbitrarily, because schools do some very fucky math to inflate their numbers, and they all seem to do the math differently. Why do they do this math? Well, it's because they're allergic to giving out grades lower than a C, so their entire scale would cease to function if they didn't heavily weight different classes over others. It's like a tower of self-caused problems.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It really should be more standardized, or else schools are just going to find reasons to cook their books.

Remember last year when San Francisco schools were going to adjust their grading scales so much that they could pass students with a D if they scored as low as a 21? Pure insanity. (They fortunately received a lot of backlash and reverted the change)

https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-public-schools-equity-homework-2078003

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's really no way of "standardizing" a practice that's inherently and wildly subjective.