Here we see the results of Critical Race Theory in action in our schools.
Oak Park and River Forest High School, located in a suburb of Chicago, has announced new "equitable" teaching goals which would consider a student's race when giving them a grade.
Yes, you read that right.
Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.
School board members discussed the plan called "Transformative Education Professional Development & Grading" at a meeting on May 26, presented by Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Laurie Fiorenza.
So, as a teacher, you must adjust your grades according to the race or ethnicity of the student.
We are lowering standards and dumbing down students because certain races can't be expected to perform as well?
Idk, sounds pretty racist to me.
In an effort to equalize test scores among racial groups, OPRF will order its teachers to exclude from their grading assessments variables it says disproportionally hurt the grades of black students. They can no longer be docked for missing class, misbehaving in school or failing to turn in their assignments, according to the plan.
There are no words to describe how racist this practice is. This school is literally saying that black students can't be expected to show up on time, or at all, behave properly, or remember to turn in their assignments.
Literally ALL of the things you need to do to succeed in school.
"Traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities and intensify the opportunity gap," reads a slide in the PowerPoint deck outlining its rationale and goals.
It calls for what OPRF leaders describe as "competency-based grading, eliminating zeros from the grade book…encouraging and rewarding growth over time."
Teachers are being instructed how to measure student "growth" while keeping the school leaders' political ideology in mind.
So you don't grade on achievement or if students understand what's being taught. EVERYTHING is on a sliding scale. "Are they smarter now that when they got here?" And there's no way to objectively measure performance.
I'm sure this will be VERY helpful for black students graduating from this school without having to learn anything or even show up.
Advocates for so-called "equity based" grading practices, which seek to raise the grade point averages of black students and lower scores of higher-achieving Asian, white and Hispanic ones, say new grading criteria are necessary to further school districts' mission of DEIJ, or "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice."
"By training teachers to remove the non-academic factors from their grading practices and recognize when personal biases manifest, districts can proactively signal a clear commitment toward DEIJ," said Margaret Sullivan, associate director at the Education Advisory Board, which sells consulting services to colleges and universities.
Sullivan calls grading based on traditional classroom testing and homework performance "outdated practices" and foster "unconscious biases."
This policy specifically targets white, Asian, and Hispanic students to lower their grades while raising the grades of black students.
Maybe I'm crazy, but the WORST thing you could tell a struggling black kid is that it's impossible for you to succeed, so we are going to completely alter reality for you and make everyone else fail.
You know, for equality.
This is Marxism, folks. And we told you it was coming.
"Teachers may unintentionally let non-academic factors—like student behavior or whether a student showed up to virtual class—interfere with their final evaluation of students.," she said. "Traditional student grades include non-academic criteria that do not reflect student learning gains—including participation and on-time homework submission."
"Non-academic factors" means that students have to behave in class, show up on time, and turn in their assignments on time. In CRT world, these shouldn't be considered, because it unjustly targets one group of students.
This policy is SO racist. It's hard to believe it's not a joke.
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