Democrat Racism Strikes Again: Major City Eliminates Failing Grades And More In The Name Of “Equity”
That’s right folks! Democrats in Oregon once again say that just because you’re not white, you’re incapable of doing basic schoolwork.
Remember back in 2021 when the State of Oregon eliminated standard proficiency requirements in order to graduate? No?!? Well, let me remind you!
From 2012 to 2019, in order to graduate with an Oregon diploma, students had to show proficiency in nine “Essential Skills”including reading, writing, math, critical thinking, technology, and civic and community engagement. Students showed that proficiency either by passing state standardized tests or doing specialized projects.
In the summer of 2021, the Oregon Legislature passed Senate Bill 744, which suspends the “Essential Skills” requirement for the following 5 years to graduate, and ordered a review of state graduation requirements to make them more “equitable.”
This was 100% racially motivated!
From the Oregonian
Charles Boyle, the governor’s deputy communications director at the time, said the governor’s staff notified legislative staff the same day the governor signed the bill.
Boyle said in an emailed statement that suspending the reading, writing and math proficiency requirements while the state develops new graduation standards will benefit “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”
Wait a second! Doesn’t this imply that the legislature, governor, and the advocacy groups that pushed this atrocity believe that those groups of people mentioned above aren’t smart enough or capable of performing as well as their white counterparts?
Yes in fact, it does.
Now let’s move on to the city of Portland Oregon in mid 2023 who decided to take the racism a giant step further.
The Portland School District sent out a handout regarding “Grading For Equity.” The district’s purpose of implementing such a policy would be to address the alleged “racial disparities” and “inequities” in grading.
Within this handout you see the following:
"Grading for equity," the handout states, includes eliminating "zeros" as a grade—even when a student cheats or fails to turn in a test or assignment. It also calls for no penalties for late work and no grades for both homework and "non-academic factors," such as "participation, attendance, effort, attitude, [and] behavior."
The district's new "bias-resistant" grading initiative argues that teachers should assign grades "based on valid evidence of a student's content knowledge, not on evidence that … is likely to be influenced by a teacher's implicit bias or reflect a student's environment." Teachers who offer extra credit, give zeros for cheating, penalize late work, and dock students for poor attendance or classroom behavior may be guilty of such bias.
The initiative also calls to only "base grades on summative assessments, instead of classwork, homework, formative assessments, etc." Should a student cheat or fail to submit an assignment on time, teachers should provide a grade of at least 50 percent, the district handout outlining the initiative says. The initiative also calls to replace the typical "0-100" grading scale with a "0-4" scale.
These new standards are supposed to take effect district wide in 2025, but some schools have already started implementing it.
Portland Public Schools Chief Academic Officer Kimberlee Armstrong told local news station KGW the new grading system would make the system fairer because students have different responsibilities outside of the classroom.
"It's about fairness, it's about reducing bias, it's about considering the diverse backgrounds and needs of students,"
So now, not only do Oregon Democrats believe that non white children are incapable of passing a standard proficiency exam in order to graduate, but they also now accuse them of being failing cheaters who can’t turn in homework?
Let’s not forget that they also think that just because you’re a person of color that you’re incapable of obtaining an ID, Voting, or getting a job based off your merit.
Can someone please explain to me how any person of color can still vote for the party of the Ku Klux Klan?
Same Party, Different Plantation.