I am outraged. Standards for High School graduation should not be "pliable". They should be hard and fast. There is way too much of the sliding downward slope in standards everywhere I look these days. School and teacher incentives and objectives need to be re-worked, to a higher standard, so the students are held to a higher standard. Pass or Fail.
One of the things that has always cracked me up, is when some politician or administrator says something along the lines of, "we need to get these kids above average." Meanwhile, I can't ever stop myself from thinking that the very definition of "average" means that 50% of students will be below it.
I am outraged. Standards for High School graduation should not be "pliable". They should be hard and fast. There is way too much of the sliding downward slope in standards everywhere I look these days. School and teacher incentives and objectives need to be re-worked, to a higher standard, so the students are held to a higher standard. Pass or Fail.
One of the things that has always cracked me up, is when some politician or administrator says something along the lines of, "we need to get these kids above average." Meanwhile, I can't ever stop myself from thinking that the very definition of "average" means that 50% of students will be below it.