Our school district talks a lot about rigor. We are told to have high expectations and hold the students accountable.
You need to understand educational jargon. At an assembly this week our eighth graders were told that the official policy of the school board was that they could fail two classes in their last semester and still walk in the promotion ceremonies. That means that they can fail math and
English and still have the honor of walking across a stage as having met the requirements set forth for promotion to the ninth grade.
It is called rigor. It is destroying an entire generation.
Don’t think this is an isolated incident. Don’t think it is just on our district. This disease of dumbing down is all across the country.
Ask questions. Demand answers. I know of at least one school board that needs to be voted out.
homo unius libri
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