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Las Vegas high-school English teacher Laura Jeanne Penrod initially thought the grading changes at her school district made sense. Under the overhaul, students are given more chances to prove they have mastered a subject without being held to arbitrary deadlines, in recognition of challenges some children have outside school.

Soon after the system was introduced, however, Ms. Penrod said her 11th-grade honors students realized the new rules minimized the importance of homework to their final grades, leading many to forgo the brainstorming and rough drafts required ahead of writing a persuasive essay. Some didn't turn in the essay at all, knowing they could redo it later.

"They're relying on children having intrinsic motivation, and that is the furthest thing from the truth for this age group," said Ms. Penrod, a teacher for 17 years.

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Given the opportunity, high school students will be lazy. Who knew? /s

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Samuel Hwang, a senior at Ed W. Clark High School in Las Vegas, has spoken out against the grading changes, saying they provide incentives for poor work habits. A straight-A student headed to the University of Chicago next year, Samuel said even classmates in honors and Advanced Placement classes are prone to skip class now unless there is an exam.

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Bias can come into play when teachers use a grade as an incentive for behavior, said Tanya Kuhnee, a teacher-support specialist who is helping implement the Albuquerque program. Maybe a student is late because they had to bring their sibling to school. "That has nothing to do with whether they can write a competent, argumentative essay," Ms. Kuhnee said.

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"Classrooms are pressure cookers," he said. With daily deadlines, cheating off classmates can be ubiquitous. "They're now able to relax, say, 'I can have a bad day,' and spend more time on things. It changes the way the classroom feels."

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They've built curriculum around holding students to as low expectations as possible.

Can't wait for equitable bridge building and equitable aircraft design.

Brave New World except everyone is turned into Epsilons

Libs want children brainwashed & uneducated

Fairly ingenious plan

Perfect way to prepare kids for the real world.

Right out of the communist playbook

LIFE is hard. It has challenges and responsibilities and can be unfair and unkind. We should be preparing kids to deal with this by teaching them about cause and effect, about consequences for actions, about what it is like to try and then fail or succeed, versus not try and certainly fail.

When we decline to tech the children these most fundamental lessons in our most fundamental institutions, and instead teach them they will by coddled and excused and relieved of burdens by these institutions, they become weak, soft, and even sociopathic. We harm them by making them fragile and unprepared for adulthood. We make them physically grown adults with the emotional maturity of children.

Reward laziness and failure and then act surprised when that's what you get more of

This is slap in the face to all who studied hard, worked hard. Folks of any color.
If school was so biased how did minorities of color and poor people get so smart and successful 20-40 -60 years ago?

"They're relying on children having intrinsic motivation, and that is the furthest thing from the truth for this age group,"

No f***ing s***, sherlock.

Lazy kids don't want to write their essays?

It's the progressive way...restructure society based on the lowest common denominator so no one is left behind. Sure, it also means no one excels and that the ceiling is lowered but that's a small price to pay for equity. Best of all, it makes controlling the surfs that much easier for the ruling class.

*serfs

MooreTrucker said:

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Apparently my voice to text sucks....AI may not be as close as we think.

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Las Vegas high-school English teacher Laura Jeanne Penrod initially thought the grading changes at her school district made sense. Under the overhaul, students are given more chances to prove they have mastered a subject without being held to arbitrary deadlines, in recognition of challenges some children have outside school.

Soon after the system was introduced, however, Ms. Penrod said her 11th-grade honors students realized the new rules minimized the importance of homework to their final grades, leading many to forgo the brainstorming and rough drafts required ahead of writing a persuasive essay. Some didn't turn in the essay at all, knowing they could redo it later.

"They're relying on children having intrinsic motivation, and that is the furthest thing from the truth for this age group," said Ms. Penrod, a teacher for 17 years.

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Given the opportunity, high school students will be lazy. Who knew? /s

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Samuel Hwang, a senior at Ed W. Clark High School in Las Vegas, has spoken out against the grading changes, saying they provide incentives for poor work habits. A straight-A student headed to the University of Chicago next year, Samuel said even classmates in honors and Advanced Placement classes are prone to skip class now unless there is an exam.

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Bias can come into play when teachers use a grade as an incentive for behavior, said Tanya Kuhnee, a teacher-support specialist who is helping implement the Albuquerque program. Maybe a student is late because they had to bring their sibling to school. "That has nothing to do with whether they can write a competent, argumentative essay," Ms. Kuhnee said.

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"Classrooms are pressure cookers," he said. With daily deadlines, cheating off classmates can be ubiquitous. "They're now able to relax, say, 'I can have a bad day,' and spend more time on things. It changes the way the classroom feels."

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They've built curriculum around holding students to as low expectations as possible.

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It's been that way for a long time. They're just more blatant about it now. It will also allow the lazy teachers to be even more lazy.

Here is the problem: "teacher support specialist". Bloated administrators trying to justify their jobs, who listen to State and Fed education "experts" who try and justify their jobs by coming up with hair rain ideas.
Lol, I went back to get certified after I had degree, in a graduate education class the prof had us playing some kind of bingo with beans. Right, answer, you got a square. A wise old guy who sat next to me said, "she won't tell you those beans will be thrown all over the room ". He should have been teaching us what to do in the classroom.

You can't rise to low expectations. The left is slowly deconstructing our society and it is starting in many schools that no longer teach the basics or even care if students master the important skills they will need to be a functioning adult. It is an unforgivable disservice to students.

Now it's all about how everyone feels. God forbid we put any pressure on kids to learn and excel. Americans used to love a challenge and the difficult climb to be the best.

The dutiful left works overtime on ways to make it easier for poor junior so we can indoctrinate him or her into good little government puppets. It's the Marxist way to destroy a country.

Bigotry of low expectations. This is the democratic party.
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Hey look

A tenet of socialism failing.

Or are they just not doing it right?

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"Idiocracy", this country is already there and getting worse.

A high school senior was asked about George Washington and who he was. He answered that he was a slave owner and that was it.

This is what a public education is teaching kids now days.

Aggie Jurist said:

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Can't wait for equitable bridge building and equitable aircraft design.

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This is going to be a serious f'ing problem in the near future. We better hope this AI miracle can offset all the dumb f'ing humans that are being miseducated and being expected to fill the shoes of their predecessors.

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Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

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"Idiocracy", this country is already there and getting worse.

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Ton's of people already wearing crocks. That was the start.

Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

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I didn't realize it was a documentary when I was watching.
Also I have come to realize that the more a field is dominated by women, the more it is screwed. More women=faster on the road to communism for that field.

APHIS AG said:

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A high school senior was asked about George Washington and who he was. He answered that he was a slave owner and that was it.

This is what a public education is teaching kids now days.

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When the commie teacher has the intellectual capability of a hammer, everything looks like a racist nail