Portland’s Democrats (that’s the only party the city’s voters put in office) have turned this once vibrant, tourist-attractive city into a drug infested, feces infested, store-closing dump.
But they’re not through yet.
From Alex Schemmel’s article at freebeacon.com:
Portland Public Schools is workshopping new “equitable grading practices” that bar teachers from assigning “zeros” to students who cheat or fail to turn in assignments.
The district’s initiative aims to address “racial disparities” and “inequities” in grading and instruction, a “journey” that the district began “during the pandemic,” a handout reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon says. “Grading for equity,” the handout states, includes eliminating “zeros” as a grade—even when a student cheats or fails to turn in a test or assignment. It also calls for no penalties for late work and no grades for both homework and “non-academic factors,” such as “participation, attendance, effort, attitude, [and] behavior.”
The new grading practices, which are expected to be implemented districtwide by 2025 after some classrooms adopted them last year, reflect left-wing efforts across the country to achieve “equitable outcomes” among all students. In California, for example, new equity-focused math curriculum guidelines aim to narrow the gap between gifted and non-gifted learners by abandoning “student tracking” practices that help accelerated learners access more advanced instruction.
Erika Sanzi, the outreach director at parental rights group Parents Defending Education, said Portland’s “equitable grading practices” hurt both struggling and high-achieving students.
“These equitable grading policies, however well intended, are a disaster for the students who struggle most and for the students who need accelerated coursework,” Sanzi told the Free Beacon.
What a great idea! Make poor performance – even intentionally poor performance – okey-dokey, while simultaneously making sure that students who perform with excellence don’t appear to be any different from the students who couldn’t care less.
Right up there with the other policies – defunding/demoralizing police, looking the other way at a multitude of criminal activity, etc. – which have turned so much of Portland into a homeless-infested, feces and drug equipment laden, closed-business, amoral dump.
But, hey, why stop at what’s already been done? Why not go all the way?
As long as Portland’s voters remain “Duh Democrats” – i.e. they vote reflexively for the far-left loony-tune Democrats running the city even as those looney-tunes continue to destroy it – this is what is going to keep happening.
To those voters, I offer my congratulations. You are getting exactly what you voted for. Rejoice!!
