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Coming to your local public school or college -- if it is not there already -- "Equitable grading." It may be in your school at this moment as you read this.
Its aim is to measure whether a student knows the classroom material by the end of a term. Homework is no more. If homework is no more where does studying for a test come in? Does studying for a test interfere with the students after school activities? Oh, multiple opportunities are given to past a test. How many retests are enough? Special projects completed at home do not count in grading. Multiple opportunities are given to past a test.
Reading about this new educational experiment I missed out on it. As a former teacher I'm betting there will be more "A" students -- one cannot fail with testing until one passes. Ask yourself if this "equitable grading" becomes reality will we ever know what the student knows as a high school or college graduate?
Is this dumbing down our students?
JOHN T. KOVICH
Williamsport
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