Racism - It's a real thing.

Archy1221 said:
I mean, from your own article.  You must not have read it 
 

Less than three weeks after the students began their campaign, the board met again, on Sept. 20, and temporarily lifted the freeze. The board said that its November 2020 vote was not intended to be a ban, but rather an effort to give a curriculum committee time to review the materials.

The board noted that none of the listed books had been removed from school libraries and that teachers who had already been using the materials were not affected.


 

Jane Johnson, the president of the school board, read aloud from a statement that said that while the board recognized the importance of diversity, it was concerned about materials that “may lean more toward indoctrination rather than age-appropriate academic content.”
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Yes, I read that. It’s a bs PR statement from the board when they realized they had screwed up. 

 
teachercd said:
https://cbnc.com/minnesota-middle-school-will-eliminate-fs-to-combat-systemic-racism/

Please please please, please say that all grades are racist and that parent teacher conferences are racist, please please please!
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From the article: "Dr. Kazmierczak and WBLAS believe grades should be a measure of what a student knows and has mastered in a given course. "

Dr. K, what grade should a student receive if he/she "fails" to know or master what is expected in a given course?

 
funhusker said:
From the article: "Dr. Kazmierczak and WBLAS believe grades should be a measure of what a student knows and has mastered in a given course. "

Dr. K, what grade should a student receive if he/she "fails" to know or master what is expected in a given course?
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Ha!

From now on you get a "rainbow" if you mastered it and a "crocodile" if you did bad.

So, I am one of those teachers that hates to give an F (for the final report card grade) because of the extra f#&%ing work involved.  So GET RID OF THE F!

 
teachercd said:
Ha!

From now on you get a "rainbow" if you mastered it and a "crocodile" if you did bad.

So, I am one of those teachers that hates to give an F (for the final report card grade) because of the extra f#&%ing work involved.  So GET RID OF THE F!
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Agree for the most part.  I rarely give one.

But if I do, it's because the kid is incredibly lazy and refuses any and all opportunities I give him/her to at least get to a passing grade.  Plus, my class isn't hard to pass!

So when I do give an "F", it's incredibly satisfying to explain to the parents that I wasn't bluffing!

 
funhusker said:
Agree for the most part.  I rarely give one.

But if I do, it's because the kid is incredibly lazy and refuses any and all opportunities I give him/her to at least get to a passing grade.  Plus, my class isn't hard to pass!

So when I do give an "F", it's incredibly satisfying to explain to the parents that I wasn't bluffing!
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Yeah, you have to try to fail for the most part, unless your school is systemically racist of course. 

But I will do everything in my power to make sure a kid will pass instead of fail.

I have a student that is currently failing, they have not turned in about a dozen assignments.  When I checked the grade the other day and saw it was an F, I knew right then and there...I was a racist, even though the kid is white.    Once I bumped it up to a D, I no longer felt like a racist. 

 
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