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Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials have enacted a policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum score a student can receive for assignments, tests and other work. District spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said, the 50 percent minimum gives children a chance to catch up and a reason to keep trying. If a student gets a 20 percent in a class for the first marking period, he or she would need a 100 percent during the second marking period just to squeak through the semester. The district and teachers union issued a joint memo to ensure staff members' compliance with the policy, which was already on the books but enforced only at some schools. At this rate, it won't be long before schools institute double extra credit Mondays and Fridays to ensure students don't take three day weekends.
That's the Green Party. No, I'm not joking.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Look at the spokesperson who wrote it. "Ebony".
I'd be willing to bet my truck that this is to help the "underpriviledged ghetto children" to achieve something they can't in "normal methods" because of "the white man keeping them down (insert any cliche' here) or ???.
Simplistic, really. Look to the people initiating the rule, look to their own children and how they are doing in school.
Better hope to GOD that these kids don't transfer to another district that doesn't implement these policies. As a first grader, I was skipped at the semester break to 2nd grade. At the end of the year, my family moved. The new school didn't believe in "skipping", so I repeated the 2nd grade. That was pretty much the end of me giving a flying fuck about school.
--Toll_Free