Grade Changing In Chicago's nigger Schools

**ChicagoAvenger** · 03-12-2010, 08:15 AM

Chicago Public Schools Boost Charters by Fixing Grades
03.10.10 at 7:47 PM

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The headline of the Chicago Sun-Times today was "Grade Shame"?

To anyone who has followed this blog recently, will have noticed a discussion thread regarding my diversity post and subsequent responses. Affirmative Action was prominently discussed. At the heart of my argument was: do we continue to throw good money after bad into failing programs? Are the programs doing what they are designed to do? My contention has been No! They are not accomplishing the goals as mandated!

I have acknowledged the need for Affirmative Action and a level playing field. Education is needed more than ever in today's society. Competition is greater! Jobs are fewer!

To make a mockery of the programs designed to help not just disadvantaged youth succeed, but all youth, is the ultimate insult. Not to the taxpayer or government hotshots espousing their contributions - but to the very children it was intended to help. Fixing grades does not offer a level playing field. Weaknesses in their education will be revealed somewhere down the line. At a point, perhaps, when it's too late to rectify it. So what are we to think with latest revelation of a school system that just can't compete because, by their own admission, the minimum mandates cannot be met?

Multiple excuses to multiple problems is all you ever hear coming from CPS.

I was a product of CPS. Don't tell me it can't produce results! That's a bunch of shit! It does not please me to see how far CPS has degraded. Furthermore, why haven't they been able to fix the chronic issues that have plagued CPS for decades! If we start by getting rid of the political appointments to the system, it would be a great start. Education needs educators, not political appointments. I hope Mayor Daley looks at that headline today and realizes he has been part of the problem. Having Chicago take over the system in a power grab hasn't produced a single positive result. And now that Governor Pat Quinn wants to rape education funding with his new budget - anyone who votes for him, has a screw loose.

CPS needs to be regulated by the State Board of Education in vigilant manner. That board must be made up of educators - not political hacks. Strict adherence and compliance to state and federal mandates must be the rule. No exceptions!

Standardized testing must be met by all students, at various milestone grade levels. No exceptions! No excuses! Children must grasp the fundamental principles in math, science and reading. Children not meeting the targets must be held back. They did it in the old days, why not now? Anyone disagreeing, with a child needing to meet minimum requirements to stay on par with their peers, is beyond help or reason.

According to the Sun-Times; the ten schools that had the highest rate of changing grades were located in disadvantaged areas. If you haven't read the article please click the link for the full story. Hyde Park Academy was the worst offender where 91.61 grades per 100 were raised, 50.92 per 100 lowered and 39.38 per 100 "F"s changed to a passing grade. The only odd number, compared with the other nine schools was 50.92 per 100 of lowered grades. There definitely seems to be some creative bookkeeping going on at Hyde Park to deflect the other two categories. There were also 880 "F"s changed to passing grades this year. Students were also ordered Blanket "A"s to all students of five new Hyde Park teachers after suffering substitute teachers the first quarter. According to Monique Bond, "issuing a blanket "A" directive is not within policy guidelines".

Some principals have blamed a new electronic grading system called GradeBook. Principals at Orr Academy and Austin Polytechnical Academy said "that could have reflected a teacher's difficulty in overriding GradeBook's grading formulas or scales". I don't accept that as a viable answer. You would have seen the same problem system wide if that were the case. The greatest problems occurred in areas considered disadvantaged and where charter schools were initiated to help the youth. Schools, in some cases on academic probation. Why are teachers even attempting to override GradeBooks formulas or scales? Haven't they already been calibrated? What kind of teacher overrides a grade - one who doesn't teach well?

This, again, is not helping youth - it is hurting them. It appears to be all about numbers that principals must produce to be considered successful. That is just wrong! Success is measured when students can go forward into higher grade levels and understand the material.

According to John Kugler, a former Hyde Park teacher, there is pressure to goose up grades and "is part of the culture" at Hyde Park. A school that is on academic probation, where a high incidence of freshman and senior "F"s can help trigger federal sanctions or even closure. Hyde Park changed 3,162 grades for the entire student body in the 2008 / 2009 school year. The next closest being Farragut Career Academy with 1,074 grades changed.

If I have said it once, I have said it a hundred times already - the system is failing. Programs designed to help children succeed has created a culture where it necessary to cheat to meet objectives? Where is the sanity in that? Nothing good will come from short-cutting the basic ideals of education. Children deserve the best education they can get - what they don't need is an unmerited push.

If this is leveling the playing field - you can keep it. It is worthless!

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chic...ng-grades.html

**ChicagoAvenger** · 03-12-2010, 08:37 AM

Somebody PLEASE answer this question:

What is the pupose of niggers attending school?

**Coach Coon** · 03-12-2010, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by ChicagoAvenger

Somebody PLEASE answer this question:

What is the pupose of niggers attending school?

1. To get away from having a job.

2. To learn to sign their names on welfare checks.

3. To satisfy the minimal requirements of apefirmative axshun.

4. To market and diversify the crack supply chain.

5. Free lunches.

6. Get sumadat white wiminz.

7. Kwanzaa and Black Histree Munf.

**Alucard** · 03-12-2010, 12:38 PM

Allentown, PA school district did the impossibe to increase grades. They turned an 80 or above an A. A 50 is a D. Too bad the world doesn't work like this. Oh yes, Allentowns school district is about 70% Puerto Ricans and niggers.