Oak Park and River Forest High School students push for 'no fail' grading policy - That's right, Chicago area black and latino students want that easy A

Source: https://abc7chicago.com/education/o...nts-push-for-no-fail-grading-policy/10662522/

OAK PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- A group of students want the grading policy changed at Oak Park and River Forest High School in light of remote learning.

The students said they should not get failing grades this semester, because of all the pandemic challenges.

A group of Black and Latinx students say they want the district to implement a "no fail" policy this year. They feel between COVID-19 and gun violence impacting Black and Brown communities, their performance in school has been impacted.

Four students from a group called "Royal" or "Revolutionary Youth Action League" said the pandemic has had a negative impact on students of color the most, especially mentally, and they don't agree with the school maintaining it's usual A-F grading scale.

The students claim they are failing this semester, and that is because of challenges that came with remote learning and they want the school district to give them a pass.

"We are exhausted and disappointed that we have to ask for grace and empathy when we are trying our best to survive the impact on our mental health from the effects of COVID-19 and the racial violence in our lives," said OPRF sophomore Jacob Diaz.

In a statement, district officials say they met with students from the group Tuesday, and the board is considering their request and that they have "enhanced academic and social-emotional supports, to ensure all students, particularly those who struggled, have had equitable access to learning."

School officials said they are willing to hold more discussions about ways to support students next year.
 
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Question- between this and the university students attempting to push standards lower and lower, how would a prospective employer not infected by idpol (i.e. a small business) manage to hire without stepping onto one of these landmines, or invoking the wrath of the local SPLC?
 
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jje100010001 said:
Question- between this and the university students attempting to push standards lower and lower, how would a prospective employer not infected by idpol (i.e. a small business) manage to hire without stepping onto one of these landmines, or invoking the wrath of the local SPLC?
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Simple Answer: They Don't.

Majority of small businesses are family owned and operated. It's only if they grow to the point where the workflow becomes overbearing that they hire more people, specifically outside the family.

Every small company I've worked for was either a husband/wife combo or two close friends with an idea. They always talked big about how they've been doing the stuff they've been doing for years (sometimes a decade) by themselves, as if hiring other people would be degrading to them or something.
 
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Not h, now we don't need teacher's unions anymore, because this makes the very concept of education now obsolete.
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We ought to push for diversity quotas for nuclear power plants. Not having ex crip Jamal as director is racism and forcing him to some standard for the job is white supremacy
 
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DeadFish said:
We ought to push for diversity quotas for nuclear power plants. Not having ex crip Jamal as director is racism and forcing him to some standard for the job is white supremacy
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The sad part is that your are not even that far off the mark:
Attorneys for Mountain States Legal Foundation filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., today seeking to advance class action status for more than 2,500 aspiring air traffic controllers who were harmed by the FAA’s racially discriminatory hiring policies.

Class action certification would significantly expand the impact of the current lawsuit, Brigida v. U.S. Department of Transportation. The lawsuit was prompted by the FAA’s 2013 decision to abandon its longtime hiring practice, which relied on a network of university-sponsored Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) programs and a clinically verified aptitude test to train and test future air traffic controllers (ATC).

Under the Obama administration, the FAA abandoned the merit-based CTI program as a basis for hiring new controllers. It implemented hiring based on a “biographical questionnaire” designed to screen out candidates who weren’t members of a preferred minority racial group.

Andrew Brigida, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, was one of several thousand CTI program participants who suffered discrimination because he did not fit the FAA’s new preferred ethnic profile as determined by the biographical questionnaire.
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Does it make a difference? Public schools graduate absolute retards all the time. Do you think it matters if future chief fry cook Jacob Diaz was given an automatic pass for remedial arithmetic?
 
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I think that these students are goofing off much more due to remote learning and they don't want to suffer the consequences for doing so. Teacher can't confiscate your phone or other distractions if you're at home right?
 
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