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School District Drops 'D' Grades
Students in one New Jersey school district will no longer be able to squeak by in class after the Morris County School Board approved dropping the D grade. Beginning in the fall students who don't get a C or higher will get an F on their report card. "I'm tired of kids coming to school and not learning and getting credit for it," said Superintendent Larrie Reynolds in a Daily Record report.
So, improving by 1% to go from a 69% to a 70 is better than having the kid, say, improve by 30%? Fail means fail. If you do that, you don't need to try a little harder, you need to try a lot harder.
Now you are redefining everything, and making B's and A's much less valuable.
C was supposed to be the average grade.
D was acceptably below average.
F was unacceptably below average.
B was above average.
A was exceptionally above average.
A slight correction to your scale... your thinking is so last century. Now it's like this...
F Acceptable for Military Service (Infantry)
D Acceptable for Federal Government Job
C Acceptable for Local/State Government Job
B Acceptable for Private Job
A Unacceptable Over Achiever & Likely to be a future Dissident/Tea Party Supporter
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -HLM
The only way you can come to this kind of conclusion is if you ignore scientific information. We're talking about high school here, all you have to do to pass is read, write, and do some basic algebra. Unless you're utterly retarded, you are able to do that.
You seem to have this idea that you've been born with a good IQ, and you are one of the gifted ones. That's elitist crap. It is true that IQ is to a degree heritable, but it is also easily manipulated in the environment. In one test, researches spent time breeding intelligent and dumb rats. Of course the intelligent rats went through mazes a lot better. Then they tried raising both groups in poor environments, and found that both groups did very poorly in mazes, in fact there was almost no difference at all between the smart rats and dumb rats. Thus showing that environment can utterly ruin your intelligence. Then they tried raising the rats in extremely good environments, and once again found that the difference in IQ almost disappeared, with the 'dumb' rats doing significantly better than the smart rats raised in normal environments.
This isn't new science, it was done in 1958! Published in the Canadian Journal of Psychology (12) if you care, but it's a rather famous study. And yet you are still spouting this crap as if you're from the 20s! What's you'r problem?
Since that time we've learned that brains are incredibly elastic. Different parts can grow in order to enable various tasks, and we can even grow new brain cells. Now, not much is known about growing new braincells still, but it is safe to say that if your entire sense of self-worth is based on your IQ, then you need to grow up. Stop inflicting your idiocy and ignorance on other people.
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