6/10/26 Philadelphia Inquirer writes about grade inflation in Philadelphia schools. Teachers are upset because students who aeldom show up for classes are passing.
A fourth teacher who has worked in multiple types of schools in Philadelphia said the practice is not limited to the district.
She most recently taught at a city charter and said some of her middle-grades students were at kindergarten reading and math levels.
A combination of administration pressure to raise grades and sometimes administrators just altering the grades to a passing level means kids are moving up through the grades without acquiring the necessary skills or learning important life lessons, like showing up for classes.
I had my suspicions ad to what is driving this confirmed deeper in the article:
“The gap was huge,” the fourth teacher said. “The school’s explanation is that there’s a school-to-prison pipeline, and the older students are, the less likely they are to graduate. But they’re not meeting standards. The gaps are huge. It was very shocking to me how they would just pass the kids. I’m a parent, and I want my kids to be prepared properly.”
Everyone knows this whole "school-to-prison pipeline" idea was predicated on high discipline rates for black and Hispanic boys. That failure to learn self-discipline mostly prepares them for criminal behavior could not possibly be part of the pipeline, could it? This insistence on meeting standards of benefit is racist leads to unprepared kids going to at worst jail.
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