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Topic Started: Jun 29 2010, 06:23 AM (121 Views)
Lord Diddy
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Wrong answers = half credit

Good thing the state is up for that school funding, because these kids look like they need all the help they can get. On this year's state math exams—administered to students in the 3rd through 8th grades in order to advance to the next grade—many students were given partial credit for bad math, wrong answers and even writing no answer at all.

According to the Post, the scoring guidelines are based on "holistic rubrics," requiring that a student be given credit if they prove that they partially understand the concepts, even if they get the answer wrong. Because god forbid the kids get held back; it might hurt their feelings! Here are some maddening examples:

Writing that 28 divided by 14 equals 4 instead of 2 gets partial credit if the student uses the right method.
Setting up a division problem to find one fifth of $400 but not solving the problem gets half credit.
A kid who writes 75 - 57 = 15 gets half credit.
Writing 35 x 10 = 150 warrants half credit.
Teachers are outraged, saying the scoring lets children advance to the next grade without the proper math skills. One Brooklyn teacher said, "The kids who really need the help are just being shuffled along to the next grade without the basic skills to have true success. They are given a hollow success—that's the crime of it. The state DOE is doing a disservice to its children." Those extra points can also mean a lot, since the number of points required to pass proficiency levels has reportedly dropped in the past few years. The DOE is withholding scores until July, and will set their own "promotional cut scores" to determine which children get held back.

Kid brings gun to school....

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Christan Morales said her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures.

But the school banned the hat because it ran afoul of the district's zero-tolerance weapons policy. Why? The toy soldiers were carrying tiny guns.

"His teacher called and said it wasn't appropriate," Morales said.

Morales' 8-year-old son, David, had been assigned to make a hat for the day when his second-grade class would meet their pen pals from another school. She and her son came up with an idea to add patriotic decorations to a camouflage hat.

Earlier this week, after the hat was banned, the principal at the Tiogue School in Coventry told the family that the hat would be fine if David replaced the Army men holding weapons with ones that didn't have any, according to Superintendent Kenneth R. Di Pietro.

But, Morales said, the family had only one Army figure without a weapon (he was carrying binoculars), so David wore a plain baseball cap on the day of the pen pal meeting.

"Nothing was being done to limit patriotism, creativity, other than find an alternative to a weapon," Di Pietro said.

The district does not allow images of weapons or drugs on clothing. For example, a student would not be permitted to wear a shirt with a picture of a marijuana leaf on it, the superintendent said.

The principal "wasn't denying the patriotism," he said. "That just is the wrong and unfair image of one of our finest principals."

On Thursday, Di Pietro and the principal met with the retired commander of the Rhode Island National Guard, at the commander's request.

Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio praised the school system for supporting the military in the past, including with a junior ROTC program.

But he said he disagreed with the decision to ban the hat and hoped it offered a chance for the school to review its policies.

"The American soldier is armed. That's why they're called the armed forces," he said. "If you're going to portray it any other way, you miss the point."

He said he intends to give David a medal to express veterans' appreciation that he would pay tribute to their service.

Morales said her son was inspired to honor the military after striking up a friendship last summer with a neighbor in the Army.

Banning the hat "sent the wrong message to the kids, because it wasn't in any way to cause any harm to anyone," she said. "You're talking about Army men. This wasn't about guns."

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the commies in this country have won
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As if education in the United States wasnt sad enough they pull this.

the gun thing is just retarded. Maybe instead of freaking out over small things they should focus on the bigger picture.
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This reminds me of my senior year in high school. Almost the entire 8th grade was caught in some sort of alcohol related activity, including some bringing drinks to school in soda bottles almost every day, the entire grade was put on notice they were going to fail because most of them had grades so low and a bunch were suspended. But magically they had some sort of meeting with parents and school administrators and all but like 6 or 7 passed into the 9th grade. Of course this school also robbed Josh out of being valedictorian with some shady deal I don't really remember so I shouldn't be surprised. Weird thing is there is some sort of "curse" on our valedictorians. A lot of them end up in various sorts of trouble including one of the "co-valedictorians" they passed over Josh with.
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Yea I think hes better off without gettin that lol. But yea school, and ours definitely, pulled some shady and stupid crap.
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Nate
Jun 29 2010, 11:40 AM
As if education in the United States wasnt sad enough they pull this.
:up: What a crock of shit.
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