A school district about fifty miles north of San Francisco has overhauled their grading policy. Under the new rules, if a student has scores of 20 percent, he or she will now earn a passing grade – and they’ll also be given a C for doing absolutely nothing at all.
The taxpayer-funded school district’s new system is called the equal interval scale, which differs from the traditional a through f scale by distributing grades in 20 percent increments from 0 to 100 percent, and by only giving grades of F for students with scores below 20 percent.
This way, students who earn a score of 80 will be given an A-.
Furthermore, any grade from 80 to 100 will be given an A or A minus.
To compare, most students in America who score between 80 and 85 in a class wind up getting a B minus or a B.
An average of 41 percent, which gets most students an F, will now earn a C minus from the school district.
A percentage of 20 to 40 earns a passing grade of D minus or D plus.
Plus, the school has a district-wide rule that says teachers have to give every student a minimum score of 50 – even if they don’t complete a bit of homework or make the slightest effort to mark down an answer on a test.
Some teachers aren’t too thrilled with the new system, middle school math and science teacher James Gregoretti suggested that raising F grades to C grades is the exact opposite of promoting education. “This isn’t giving a student hope,” he told the local school board this fall, according to The Press Democrat. “It is lowering standards in order to raise grades.”
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