According to this article at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pittsburgh Public Schools board has implemented a 50% minimum score for all grades handed out.


If Johnny get's one out of ten correct on his math quiz, Johnny get's 50%. If Susie get's 45 out of 100 on her social studies paper, Susie gets 50%. They are doing this so students who don't do well don't have such a big hole to dig out of later on. What sense does that make?

More importantly what does it teach the children to whom anything less than an A is unacceptable? All three of my sons are straight-A students. All three of them bust their tails to do work that is worthy of an A. Why don't they get any bonuses for doing exceptional work? why is it only the stupid kids who get bonuses? Quite frankly, if you earn below a 50% in any course of study at any time it's because you weren't even trying. So why are the students who try, who take pride in the fact that they do try being singled out unfairly?

Perhaps this quote from the article is the ultimate irony:



The Pittsburgh Public Schools board gets an epic fail on this one...

...Oh wait, they can't, they only get a 50% epic fail.

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