This AM....I read through a California law news piece. There's a draft bill flowing....called the "Grading for Equity" program.
Basic landscape? This program will eliminate homework assignments by teachers....eliminate weekly test requirements.....allow an extra week for late assignment hand-in situations....let students skip class without affecting grade performance....anything above a '80-average' be an 'A', and finally allow students to pass with as grade as low as "21".
The problems here?
If it passes into law.....the university system would have to engage and find ways for dumbasses (more so than now) to get in, and somehow pass. Then you have to allow some type of system to allow both gifted and dumbasses to be at the same level.
Why? I paused over this....because the whole wording seems to signal that half the kids in school today (in California) are not capable of doing their level of work required to graduate.
The odds in ten years that you might have 2,000 electrical engineers from California....who can only perform at the 6th-grade level of thinking, yet have a high school graduation slip, and a college degree?
The comical side of this? This same group...probably will borrow $100,000 to attend college, and need to make a minimum of $75,000 a year....to pay back the money....while giving you a 6th-grader perception of electrical engineering.
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