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More grade fixing in a NOLA school
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:08 pm
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This outstanding AP goes further.
Apparently, she thinks her teachers, well, suck.
You certainly hear of administrators who act like this... but it's rare to see it so blunt.
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Whitney Omosefe, an assistant principal at the New Orleans East high school, sent almost identical emails to 27 teachers on Oct. 3, warning them that the first quarter of the school year was about to end and they needed to act quickly to raise their students’ grade averages. The school, located on Read Boulevard, is run by Collegiate Academies. “The goal is that 25% of scholars in your course should have an A, 40% should have a B, 25% should have a C and (less than) 10% should have a D/F,” say the emails, obtained through a public records request.
This outstanding AP goes further.
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“There’s not much time left to improve our course averages and while we don’t want to ‘cook the books,’ we do want to ensure that students don’t have limited college access as a result of our ongoing learning around grading best practices.”
Apparently, she thinks her teachers, well, suck.
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She then says it’s the teacher’s fault if a large number of students failed on an assignment. “The rationale for this move is that if a third of your students were unsuccessful on an assignment, then you did not teach them the content, study skills, or mindsets they needed for success on that assignment,” the email says. “It’s too late to fix that teaching error now, so we can make up for it by giving those assignments a weight of zero.”
You certainly hear of administrators who act like this... but it's rare to see it so blunt.
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Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:10 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:11 pm to LSUFanHouston
Definitely a problem that has to be addressed if privatizing schools is going to be the future.
Exact reason also why teacher pay can't be linked to student performance.
Exact reason also why teacher pay can't be linked to student performance.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:12 pm to LSUFanHouston
In ATL, many teachers and admins are in federal prison for this exact thing, right now.
How will New Orleans handle this?
How will New Orleans handle this?
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:15 pm to deeprig9
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How will New Orleans handle this?
Probably fire the teacher that leaked the email.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:15 pm to LSUFanHouston
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“The rationale for this move is that if a third of your students were unsuccessful on an assignment, then you did not teach them the content, study skills, or mindsets they needed for success on that assignment,”
Alternatively, it could (or better yet, should) be argued that the teacher adequately prepared the students since two-thirds of the class were successful on the assignment.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:15 pm to LSUFanHouston
I can’t express to y’all how fricking stupid sending that out in an email is.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:15 pm to LSUFanHouston
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The rationale for this move is that if a third of your students were unsuccessful on an assignment, then you did not teach them the content, study skills, or mindsets they needed for success on that assignment
Technically, this is correct.
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we can make up for it by giving those assignments a weight of zero
Bold move, Cotton.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:17 pm to LSUFanHouston
Grading to the curve to get the desired bell curve is pretty standard. Teachers do it all the time so I don't see the problem if that's the case.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:18 pm to brgfather129
If 1/3 fail, I don't know if that's on teacher.
90-100 percent? Sure. Like another poster said, 1/3 fail means 2/3 passed.
90-100 percent? Sure. Like another poster said, 1/3 fail means 2/3 passed.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:19 pm to LSUFanHouston
This is a huge drawback of mixing public money with private education.. voucher, charter schools all have merits but this type of fraud will be a battle.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:20 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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Grading to the curve to get the desired bell curve is pretty standard. Teachers do it all the time so I don't see the problem if that's the case.
Here's what she said.
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The goal is that 25% of scholars in your course should have an A, 40% should have a B, 25% should have a C and (less than) 10% should have a D/F,”
That's not a bell curve.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:22 pm to t00f
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I can’t express to y’all how fricking stupid sending that out in an email is.
Right. We all have heard stories of teachers being pressured by admins to "update" grades... but no one is ever stupid enough to put it in writing, and be so blunt about it.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:24 pm to LSUFanHouston
That’s exactly what a bell curve is
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:27 pm to Booyow
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That’s exactly what a bell curve is
A bell curve would have the greatest percentage at the C grade level, and relatively equal distribution for A and F, and for B and D.
That isn't the case here.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:33 pm to LSUFanHouston
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If 1/3 fail, I don't know if that's on teacher.
Effective teachers don't have 1/3 of their students fail.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:38 pm to LSUFanHouston
Reminds me of the scam prep school in Louisiana that engaged in serious grade inflation to get kids into NYU, Yale, Stanford, Wesleyan, etc.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:45 pm to Booyow
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That’s exactly what a bell curve is
No...
Posted on 10/22/19 at 10:51 pm to brgfather129
quote:No it's not correct. A mindset cannot be taught by a teacher who sees these kids a few hours per week. That is the parents' job.
Technically, this is correct
Posted on 10/22/19 at 11:05 pm to LSUFanHouston
This is a student problem. Ignorant, illiterate, dolts. They are lazy, and cognitively deficient, Socrates and Christ wouldn't have success teaching them anything.
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