California School District Implements "Equity Grading" -- A Students Will Become B Students, and D and F Students Will Become C Students

We're all equal now because the government changed out test results to push us all towards the middle.

No D's and F's? No extra credit? Will Bay Area schools' switch to equity grading help or harm students?

Dublin Unified School District says the public school grading system is unfair
Hrihaan Bhutani is already thinking about college. The Dublin High freshman is taking four Advanced Placement classes next year and has crammed his schedule with extracurricular activities to better his chances of getting into an Ivy League school.
But a change at the high school designed to get students less focused on grades has done the opposite. Suddenly, in some classes, A's are almost unachievable, unless you score 100%. And F's don't exist. For high-achieving students like Bhutani, the pressure to be perfect is even more of a burden.
"I feel more stressed ... now with this new system," said Bhutani, who is especially sweating his biology class, one of dozens trying a variety of new grading scales under a two-year experiment. "Even if you're at a 99, you would get moved down to an 85," he explained, which translates to a world-ending B.
Dublin Unified's new grading policy will go into effect for all 6th through 12th grade classes next year and is part of a national shift toward "equity grading" -- a controversial concept that moves away from traditional grading to better measure how well students understand what they are being taught.

No, that's a lie. The new "grading" system is designed for the exact opposite reason, to hide how well students understand what they're being taught.

It's good for bad students and it's great for bad teachers, who can now say, "I'm doing a great job, even my dumbest kids got C's!"

The goal is to lower the impact of things that "fluff" grades -- extra credit, class participation and homework -- while also making it easier for lower-performing students to bounce back from failing.

Extra credit, class participation, and homework are "fluff" that has nothing to do with how well kids learn?

Homework is 100% critical to learning. Anyone can follow the teacher in class as he explains an algebra problem's solution. The only way you actually learn it is when you do it on your own.

But the bad students don't do homework, so homework is now outlawed. It's "fluff."

And yes, it will be easier for failing students to "bounce back from failing" when all of their F's and D's will be changed with the stroke of a pen to C's.

...
Next year, the district will restrict all letter grades to a 10% range and remove the practice of awarding zero points for assignments as long as they were "reasonably attempted." The new policy will also remove extra credit and bonus points that elevated grades, and provide students with multiple chances to make up missed or failed assignments and minimize homework's impact on a student's grade.
Some parents and teachers said they worry the changes will encourage students to slack off and leave them unprepared for college.
"I think the dumbing down of curriculum will lead to our kids failing in college because they're not going to be prepared on the same level as kids from other districts and other states," said Dublin parent Olena Stadnyuk.
Skeptics say school districts are implementing no-zero policies and removing failing letter grades to boost graduation rates as they struggle to recover from learning loss caused by the pandemic.
"This will up kids graduating, it will up their numbers," said Laurie Sargent, an eighth grade English teacher at Cottonwood Creek, a TK-8th grade school in Dublin. "They'll have fewer kids failing and then that looks good. It's strategic."

Yup.

All the people who failed us in the past are in full cover-up mode.

Related: Renegade anti-woke former teacher Chalkboard Heresy explains why it's impossible to get woke teachers to stick to the curriculum and leave their politics at home.

Chalkboard Heresy
@CBHeresy
One thing I've realized after working with teachers for 12 years is that it's very hard to get them to commit to political or ideological neutrality in the classroom because:
A. They view teaching as an inherently political act intended to turn students into political units (activists/"change agents.")
B. They attach moral value to their beliefs, and thus view the proliferation of those beliefs as a moral obligation.
C. They do not recognize particular beliefs as political or ideological, and believe they're "just teaching truth."

Yes, the leftwing media teaches them that. The leftwing media made that up in order to combat charges that they were biased to the left. They are biased to the left and they know it, so they invented the doctrine that there is no left, there is only "truth," and sure, they're biased in favor of "the truth," who wouldn't be?

So "leftwing bias" is changed into "the truth" with a simple semantic intervention. It's as simple as changing D-students into B-students. There is no reality, only the sorcery of what words we call things.

D. When trying to be balanced, requiring students to compare two sources or opinions, they engineer- purposefully or unwittingly- the lesson to bring students to certain conclusions.

Meanwhile:

Students walked out of Nebo School District in Utah to protest the school for allowing "furries" to t*rrorize other students.

Students claim that the furries bite them, bark at them, and pounce on them without repercussion. However, if they defend themselves in any way, they get… pic.twitter.com/3FUiAo8efk
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 17, 2024

Don't worry, though: A local media propaganda outlet interviews a furry calling themself (yes, themself) "Strudel" who says this is all overblown.

And if you can't trust a nonbinary that dresses up like a cartoon dog and calls themself "Strudel," who can you trust?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:19 PM

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Posted by: GF at April 19, 2024 02:19 PM (tUCgX)

2 No D's and F's? No extra credit? Will Bay Area schools' switch to equity grading help or harm students?

Will it harm Advanced Placement students? Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 02:21 PM (sHgnb)

3 Well, if Hrihaan is upset I guess we all should be.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:21 PM (IG4Id)

4 Full on Marxism, to each his ability to each his need.
No one needs a A grade, everyone is equil

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:22 PM (fwDg9)

5 Tall poppy syndrome.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 19, 2024 02:23 PM (Be/+i)

6 So, just like the Ivy League Universities and Law Schools have been grading for the last 30 years?

Nice.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 19, 2024 02:23 PM (4tJWN)

7 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:23 PM (Bej1H)

8 1. Democrats need really stupid and ignorant voters.

2. Democrats control the education system.

Any questions?

Posted by: MartynW at April 19, 2024 02:23 PM (sHP7b)

9 Dublin Unified's new grading policy will go into effect for all 6th through 12th grade classes next year and is part of a national shift toward "equity grading" -- a controversial concept that moves away from traditional grading to better measure how well students understand what they are being taught.
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Blah blah blah.

Same shit different day.

Remember "progressive education?" No grades at all? Didn't work.
Neither do phony grading systems. When I was in elementary school, the school did this crap. Instead of A-F (minus E, of course), they had a three-point scale of "N, S, H"
N == "Needs Improvement"
S == "Satisfactory"
H == "High Quality"

Y'know what everyone - even the kids - did? They translated it:
N == F or D
S == C or B or A-
H == A or A+

And who did this scheme piss off? Why, it pissed off the A- and B students. Who did it make happy? The F and C students were happier than a pig in shit with it. Both got to claim higher status than they had earned.

It's always the same. So now it's "equity grading." Whatever. It's the same damn thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:24 PM (HnUIn)

10 What does an "A" or "B" (or "C" or "D") really tell you?

The whole concept of grades was invented a couple of centuries ago because a lazy professor wanted to easily quantify student knowledge without having to work too hard to evaluate it.

It's been refined since then into the lovely grading schema we know and love today.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:24 PM (7fElN)

11 Dress codes would solve this furry crap, but that ain't happening. Might stifle some little darlin's creativity.

Posted by: Bob's Brazilian niece at April 19, 2024 02:24 PM (VGOMa)

12 Strudel touched my wiener.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 19, 2024 02:24 PM (JTwsP)

13 Harrison Bergeron High School.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 19, 2024 02:24 PM (bNf8H)

14 Lake Wobegon High. Where all students are average.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2024 02:24 PM (63Dwl)

15 Strudel looks rabid to me. (shoots)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (tkR6S)

16 Stupid people today, in twenty years: "Gosh, why are the young folks all so incredibly stupid?"

Posted by: Everyday Rockets at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (qUkBO)

17 That furry stuff is nothing new. I knew a guy who thought he was Huckleberry Hound back in the 80s.

And that guy was...Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (YIxO9)

18 This is all a conspiracy theory!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (R4t5M)

19 Lowering high-achievers grades to make less capable or less hardworking pupils look better is immoral. But destroying honest grading is what they have to do, because they can't turn the low performers into high achievers. No one should be sending their kids to these child prisons.

Posted by: Little Lebowsky Urban Achiever at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (myMpi)

20 Related. 12 year old middle school girl has her skull fractured by 13 year old 'non-binary' classmate who is really a dude.

https://tinyurl.com/33edcjk4

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (GTqXr)

21 My pre-h.s. school went to an O, S, U grading system.

Probably for the same stupid reasons. I found it was possible to get an "S" grade, with very little effort, and I wasn't particularly motivated to go for an "O."

So teachers would write on my report card "he's not willing to do the work." Well duh, genius. Who's fault is that? I was fine with it. My only regret was learning bad habits I subsequently had to unlearn, in classes where it actually mattered later on.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (dGCAG)

22 The goal is to lower the impact of things that "fluff" grades -- extra credit, class participation and homework -- while also making it easier for lower-performing students to bounce back from failing.
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Okay. So assuming that these are "fluff" (and some of it is - "participation" should not be graded IMO, results should be), then why not just ... stop offering fluff? If you've broken the grading system by corrupting it, why not remove the corruption rather than destroy the grading system to accommodate it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (HnUIn)

23 I've said it for longer than I can remember ... you don't know everything about someone by where they live. But you know enough.

There are no chains holding people down in Dublin Unified School District. Or anywhere else in America. Just people that show you their priorities by where they choose to remain.

Nobody chooses where they are born, or the family born into. But we all pick - even those with the most limited means - where we stay once we are of the age of consent.

So fuck 'em. Local story. More than ten miles from my house.

Posted by: It's Always Been Like This at April 19, 2024 02:26 PM (rcDDC)

24 Harrison Bergeron? Is that you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

25 So can I assume C students are the ones who've antagonized the teachers and have espoused conservative ideals in class without authorization? Or they the only ones to get Fs?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2024 02:26 PM (YIxO9)

26 If the schools are going to let Furries bite other students, the least they could do is require them to get rabies shots.

Posted by: Socratease at April 19, 2024 02:26 PM (t8Egx)

27 I have had professors confirm to me that they students they are teaching now are *less* proficient learners than the students from a few years ago. One can trace this back directly to the transition to online learning during COVID.

Online classes can be taught effectively. But that requires a lot of work on the part of the instructor and the student to make it work. Most professors and most students don't understand the change in learning dynamics in online education.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:26 PM (7fElN)

28 So equity grading is just like the old Pass/Fail system, only there is no "Fail" category?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2024 02:26 PM (991eG)

29 Government School Teachers...what they wont do for a no accountability job and a sweet, sweet guaranteed pension.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 19, 2024 02:27 PM (FCPbW)

30 God already told us the truth so it's no surprise at all that demonic forces would claim "truth" as their own and use it to guide their demented followers toward social destruction.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 02:27 PM (lX8VI)

31 Next year, the district will restrict all letter grades to a 10% range and remove the practice of awarding zero points for assignments as long as they were "reasonably attempted." The new policy will also remove extra credit and bonus points that elevated grades, and provide students with multiple chances to make up missed or failed assignments and minimize homework's impact on a student's grade
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Aren't grades (other than 'F') always a 10% range? When did that change?

And zeroes suck. Zeroes hurt. Zeroes are brutal. Zeroes are there to tell you not to do that again. Getting rid of zeroes helps nobody. And what is the magical non-zero score if a "reasonable attempt" was made?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:27 PM (HnUIn)

32 Ah...m'yes...of course. This would be the Procrustean school of pedagogy.

Posted by: Paco at April 19, 2024 02:27 PM (njExo)

33 Just do away with public schools entirely. That's the only solution.

All the kids who are likely to become gangbangers are still going to become gangbangers. All the slutty girls with daddy issues are still going to get pregnant at 15. All the stoners are still going to get high all day. All the closet faggot jocks are stil going to jerk each other off in a shower somewhere. But at least all the parents who give a shit about their kids can send them to private school where they can get an edumaction in peace.

Also everyone gets to benefit from lower property taxes.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:27 PM (qDd6/)

34 Government School Teachers...what they wont do for a no accountability job and a sweet, sweet guaranteed pension.

It really is a great gig.

Posted by: Most Municipal Police at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (rcDDC)

35 >>f the schools are going to let Furries bite other students, the least they could do is require them to get rabies shots.
___
Probably already been spayed and neutered.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (bNf8H)

36 This "furry" thing has got to be another perverted social contagion. I never even heard about it 5 years ago, and living in a big city there are few perversions and weird obsessions that I don't notice. Now "furries" are terrorizing schools.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

37 Extra credit is a way for low-achieving students to raise their grade through additional work. Can't have that, let's slam the door on that escape route from failure.

Posted by: Socratease at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (t8Egx)

38 Students walked out of Nebo School District in Utah to protest the school for allowing "furries" to t*rrorize other students.

Students claim that the furries bite them, bark at them, and pounce on them without repercussion.

========

All you young ladies in the video? This is what groupthink and agreeing to whatever media tells you to think leads you to.

Don't do it.

School is for dummies. Be smart. Break the chains of institutional education oppression.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

39 Skeptics say school districts are implementing no-zero policies and removing failing letter grades to boost graduation rates as they struggle to recover from learning loss caused by the pandemic.
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No.

They're trying to cover-up the abject failure of the US public education system in general, and the failure of their districts in particular.

You don't get to blame COVID for this anymore and even if there truth to that assertion, this does nothing for "recovery." Papering over it does not fix it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (HnUIn)

40 Johnny got a B in blowjobs.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (J8LnB)

41 CBHeresy

One thing I've realized after working with teachers for 12 years is that it's very hard to get them to commit to political or ideological neutrality in the classroom because:

A. They view teaching as an inherently political act intended to turn students into political units (activists/"change agents.")

B. They attach moral value to their beliefs, and thus view the proliferation of those beliefs as a moral obligation.

C. They do not recognize particular beliefs as political or ideological, and believe they're "just teaching truth."
++++
We've done our jobs

Posted by: Ed Schools at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (HnUIn)

42 Cant' control crime? Just decriminalize most things and presto, crime rates are down.

Can't teach 'em? Just inflate the grades and presto, grades improve.

Same shit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (2UnvF)

43 "The goal is to lower the impact of things that "fluff" grades -- extra credit, class participation and homework -- while also making it easier for lower-performing students to bounce back from failing."

Um, extra credit, class participation, and homework ARE the things that allow lower-performing students to bounce back.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (F4bAW)

44 Bhutanis parents need to pull him out of the school and send him to one that's legit.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (YRsIm)

45 Probably already been spayed and neutered.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (bNf8H)

And their tails docked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (tkR6S)

46 So is this what happened to IMDB?

Notice that on old movies, all the action is between 6.0 and 6.9.
Anything in the 5s is lousy, even if it has your favorite actors. Anything in the 7s is something everyone has already seen.

Same with Celsius. What idiots designed a unit system where 15 is pretty cold, and 25 is too hot.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (VskGF)

47 Welcome to Idiocrasy.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (qZdIZ)

48 I will immediately move legislation to the floor to protect "furries". It is crucial to our national sovereignty and dignity. The border invasion pales in comparison. This is what the people want.

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (vB6UG)

49 Didn't Closet Faggot Jocks open for Insane Clown Posse?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (Be/+i)

50 Memo from CEO to HR department: hire no one from the Dublin School district.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 19, 2024 02:30 PM (Wjvnb)

51 Some parents and teachers said they worry the changes will encourage students to slack off and leave them unprepared for college.

********

Ees to laugh!
How ees it you say here? I think that ship has left the barn door already!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2024 02:30 PM (991eG)

52 Robert - got a newsletter?

Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2024 02:30 PM (NABBY)

53 20 Related. 12 year old middle school girl has her skull fractured by 13 year old 'non-binary' classmate who is really a dude.

https://tinyurl.com/33edcjk4

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 19, 2024 02:25 PM (GTqXr)

Did it with a Stanley mug, no less.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:30 PM (qDd6/)

54 The school is of course denying that there are any furries at all at the school, let alone that they are terrorizing students. Shouldn't this be easy enough to verify? I'm assuming if there are weirdos dressed as animals wandering around the school, there will be photo and video evidence of it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

55 And if you can't trust a nonbinary that dresses up like a cartoon dog and calls themself "Strudel," who can you trust?
++++
He is exactly as trustworthy as journalists, politicians, bureaucrats, doctors, teachers, etc.

Feel free to add to the list.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:30 PM (HnUIn)

56 Ooh, I like my new hash (NABBY).

Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2024 02:30 PM (NABBY)

57 Tall poppy syndrome.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Ask and ye shall receive.

https://youtu.be/O8Wv26LaGEs

Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2024 02:30 PM (RMjPd)

58 No furries, no piece...

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (vB6UG)

59 >the public school grading system is unfair
---

because it exposes who the stupid kids are, and who the smart kids are

and we know it's not fair that some kids are stupid

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (oCjPU)

60 48 I will immediately move legislation to the floor to protect "furries". It is crucial to our national sovereignty and dignity. The border invasion pales in comparison. This is what the people want.
Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (vB6UG)

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (Akjoo)

61 "And if you can't trust a nonbinary that dresses up like a cartoon dog and calls themself "Strudel," who can you trust?"

Me?

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (vB6UG)

62 Don't worry, though: A local media propaganda outlet interviews a furry calling themself (yes, themself) "Strudel" who says this is all overblown.

And if you can't trust a nonbinary that dresses up like a cartoon dog and calls themself "Strudel," who can you trust?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

Having a child in a cartoon suit in school isn't disruptive?
I thought Utah schools would be better than this caricature of a learning environment.

Dublin I can understand: it's near the S.F. bay and Oakland and the fresh water comes from Sacramento.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (df90r)

63 So self-deleting fire guy's sign said, "Trump is with Biden And they're about to fascist coup us "

twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (IG4Id)

64 A dog or cat without tags that bites me has to be tested for rabies by dissecting their brain. Maybe this is the next response to the furries.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (yOPBE)

65 This is a very important point (not to pat myself on the back):

"So, just like the Ivy League Universities and Law Schools have been grading for the last 30 years?"

If bullshit, wimpy grading systems are good enough for the elite fucksticks that run the country, then why not for the proles and wage slaves and their spawn?

Posted by: Sharkman at April 19, 2024 02:32 PM (4tJWN)

66 Life is tough, especially when you’re stupid
— John Wayne

Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 02:32 PM (RHGPo)

67 Related. 12 year old middle school girl has her skull fractured by 13 year old 'non-binary' classmate who is really a dude.

It always baffles me. That girl doesn't have vengeful brothers or uncles or a father. There is something instinctual about human predators that know their prey.

Posted by: Most Municipal Police at April 19, 2024 02:32 PM (rcDDC)

68 because it exposes who the stupid kids are, and who the smart kids are

and we know it's not fair that some kids are stupid
Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (oCjPU)
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Not always. It also exposes who the lazy or disengaged kids are. That was me. I'm not stupid, but I was extremely lazy, particularly in Junior High. I did just enough work to pass and nothing more because those grades were never going to matter in the future.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:32 PM (HnUIn)

69 As I said on a previous thread...

Maybe the furries should be sent to remedial training.

If only there was an educational facility--let's call it a "school" for short--that could teach them how to behave as functioning members of society...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:33 PM (7fElN)

70 "Even if you're at a 99, you would get moved down to an 85," he explained, which translates to a world-ending B.

Forget about the Ivies kid. Your school system is rogering you.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 19, 2024 02:33 PM (rJ48h)

71 I’d sell my Congressman into slavery before I let my children attend these schools

Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 02:33 PM (RHGPo)

72 Remember:
The goal and purpose of public school was to create drones just smart enough to work in the factories but not smart enough to question anything.

They have taken away the factories and replaced it with voting.

They now have the purpose to make them just smart enough to vote but not smart enough to choose who to vote for--other than the Democrat.
That goes for your blood-red school district too. Please don't lie to yourself that isn't in your school.

And we are all being forced to pay for it ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2024 02:34 PM (yikga)

73 Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron" is on point for this. Find it on the internet, it's a 5-minute read.

Posted by: Beverly at April 19, 2024 02:34 PM (Epeb0)

74 Going out on a limb here and guessing this is in the Bay Area.

Posted by: keena at April 19, 2024 02:34 PM (RiTnx)

75 I am a loathsome piece of shit who uses religion as a shield to hide the fact I'm a no balls, rubber band bicep, weakling unable to stand up for myself, much less the people I alleged to represent.

But I do what is right.

*makes ok sign*

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 19, 2024 02:34 PM (vB6UG)

76 Same with Celsius. What idiots designed a unit system where 15 is pretty cold, and 25 is too hot.
Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM

Fahrenheit:
0 -- really cold
100 -- really hot

Celsius:
0 -- cold, but tolerably so
100 -- you're dead

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (9yWhg)

77 Dublin Unified's new grading policy

Note that this isn't a failing inner-city school district, it is a wealthy suburban school district.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Child Molester! at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (YAtuc)

78 Contrary to belief on our side, this isn't about rewarding mediocrity or punishing achievement.

What it really does is create and identify political operatives, who now don't have to work hard to get on. They can be dumb as a post and lazy as hell. The playing field is being leveled so that the most leftist among us can be slid "forward".

These operatives will now be able to advance to the "best" universities as easily as actual achievers. Maybe more easily. They are tomorrow's leaders in ever field and aspect of life.

Look what the commies do to the academically advanced every single time. This is the soft and fluffy beginning to that horror.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (lX8VI)

79 Couldn't you just slide the scale to the top and still meet the mandate? Let everyone have A's and B's and let it be the universities' problem?

I mean, a shit education system is everyone's problem, but at this point it's not cracking, it's breaking into smaller pieces.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (hCzfy)

80 I’d sell my Congressman into slavery before I let my children attend these schools
Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 02:33 PM (RHGPo)
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Could you do the same for my Congressman? I'd sell cheap.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (Be/+i)

81 Eat me, I'm a danish

Posted by: Wierd Al: it's been done. at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (Y6IkP)

82 People wrongly think of societal collapse like a bridge falling down.

In America's case It's different.

It's happening now, you're living it.

Slowly then all at once.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (tN3kf)

83 ... I thought Utah schools would be better than this caricature of a learning environment. ...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM (df90r)
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It doesn't matter where it is. If it's a school, it's riddled with Maoists and other undesirables.

You could live in a blood-red town in a blood-red county in a blood-red state where everybody in town goes to church and then gets together to repair the roads as civic duty, where the divorce rate is zero and where there is no crime whatsoever - an unachievable conservative utopia - and the local school (whatever it is, from university on down) will be shot through with glass-eyed prog automata.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (HnUIn)

84 I’d sell my Congressman into slavery before I let my children attend these schools
Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 02:33 PM (RHGPo)

Don't spend it all in one place.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (tkR6S)

85 Yeesh:

@Divine_Love23 18h

7th grade bio male (trans) attacks a 7th grade bio female with a Stanley cup. He had a "hit list." These kids have been trying to get help from their counselors & the school only to be told it wouldn't actually happen. Guess what? It did. Pennbrook Middle

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (IG4Id)

86 These injustices will keep me alive and extra five years.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 19, 2024 02:36 PM (J8LnB)

87 Saw a video yesterday from West Virginia I think showing girls walking off the shot put circle rather than compete against a tranny dude. That needs to happen more.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 02:36 PM (2UnvF)

88 >67 Related. 12 year old middle school girl has her skull fractured by 13 year old 'non-binary' classmate who is really a dude.

It always baffles me. That girl doesn't have vengeful brothers or uncles or a father. There is something instinctual about human predators that know their prey.

Posted by: Most Municipal Police at April 19, 2024 02:32 PM (rcDDC)

Upper Gwynydd is AWFL central. Dad is probably soy based. Rumor is the school district transferred the little bastard because of violent threats at another middle school.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 19, 2024 02:36 PM (GTqXr)

89 Fahrenheit:
0 -- really cold
100 -- really hot

Celsius:
0 -- cold, but tolerably so
100 -- you're dead
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (9yWhg)
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Kelvin:
0 - dead
100 - dead

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 19, 2024 02:36 PM (Be/+i)

90 "This will up kids graduating, it will up their numbers," said Laurie Sargent, an eighth grade English teacher at Cottonwood Creek, a TK-8th grade school in Dublin.

I think I see the problem. She gets a "C".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 02:36 PM (PI/SC)

91 I still managed to get an "F" in Litter Box Accuracy, but most surprisingly my youthful beauty actually allowed me to pass as a 6th-grader.

Posted by: Greg Gutfeld's Squirrel Persona at April 19, 2024 02:36 PM (Zz86T)

92 People wrongly think of societal collapse like a bridge falling down.

In America's case It's different.

It's happening now, you're living it.

Slowly then all at once.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at April 19, 2024 02:35 PM (tN3kf)
++++
It melts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:36 PM (HnUIn)

93 If you are going to do this, then you really don't need schools at all.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 19, 2024 02:37 PM (tCU73)

94 Well Celsius is points of H2O phase change so I get what they're doing.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 19, 2024 02:37 PM (Y6IkP)

95 The people want a functioning Congress that passes all the crap they loath and nothing they want. They want action, and I'm giving it to them. Right in the tookus.

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 19, 2024 02:37 PM (vB6UG)

96 Upper Gwynydd is AWFL central. Dad is probably soy based. Rumor is the school district transferred the little bastard because of violent threats at another middle school.

that happened in Upper Gwynedd?!?!?!

wowzers

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 19, 2024 02:37 PM (AcWfM)

97 KJP tells reporters the White House has no official statement about Israel's strikes on Iranian targets last night, and she's going to be "super mindful"* and not speak to some reports that may be out there or speculate about anything. The reporters keep asking and asking, though.

So, Loser Joe and the DNC are still strategerizing about what they can say that will cost them the fewest votes in Dearbornistan. I guess CAIR has not yet told Joe how to dance on this one.

*Super mindful is a term she's now using 30+ times every press conference; it's her go-to delay tactic and it gives her an all-purpose reason she can't answer any question that pins-down her and FJB on anything. As in, 'I have to be super-mindful that investigations of the events at Columbia yesterday are on-going, so I'm going to be super-mindful and not respond to any questions on this.'

What a stupid, execrable person.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 02:37 PM (5fDan)

98 0-100 Fahrenheit is approximately the habitable range for people.
0-100 centigrade has no bearing on the habitable range for people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (HnUIn)

99 Rather than continue with these subterfuges, I wonder which school district will be first to introduce explicit race-norming for grades - 20% of the black students get A's, 20% of the Asian students, 20% of the white students, and 20% of the Hispanic students.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Child Molester! at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (YAtuc)

100 That was me. I'm not stupid, but I was extremely lazy, particularly in Junior High. I did just enough work to pass and nothing more because those grades were never going to matter in the future.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:32 PM (HnUIn)
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Sounds like my son. He barely graduated high school, but it was not because of any lack of intelligence. It was because he hated school. Simple as that. Never did homework, but always aced tests. Teachers finally gave up and let him get the hell out.

I had the same problem, but I am not nearly as smart as son.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (xPJvm)

101 Joe Biden this week said a child gave him the middle finger: “It happens all the time.”

“You — I’ve never thought I’d see a time when I’m going through a — a neighborhood or a rural town that’s in the west and see big signs that s- — have a Trump sign in the middle that says “F Biden” and having a little kid standing with his middle finger — seven years old, eight years old,” Biden said in Scranton, Pennsylvania this week.

“Well, I promise, it happens all the time,” Biden added.

Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (RHGPo)

102 It will be like Harvard where something like 90% of students are A students.

Posted by: Montec at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (Y6Wgg)

103 31 Aren't grades (other than 'F') always a 10% range? When did that change?

And zeroes suck. Zeroes hurt. Zeroes are brutal. Zeroes are there to tell you not to do that again. Getting rid of zeroes helps nobody. And what is the magical non-zero score if a "reasonable attempt" was made?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:27 PM (HnUIn)

My school was :

93-100 : A
85-92 : B
77-84 : C
69-76 : D
0-68 : F

Each percentage point was a grade point, until you hit 0.0 at 60%

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (UnA8+)

104 and the local school (whatever it is, from university on down) will be shot through with glass-eyed prog automata.

And the city police will be rife with guys that like to enforce their will, and also get a pension. And fire-fighters (I was one for a while) will like to take chances and do dumb shit with equipment. Because that's just the type of folks these jobs draw.

This idea we have, that we can have big institutions - government or private - somehow stick to the original mission if only we have enough oaths and creeds and rules is insane. But we keep insisting on it. In purposeful ignorance of basic human nature.

You have to, at the minimum, make organizations compete. At the minimum.

Posted by: Most Municipal Police at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (rcDDC)

105 "I’d sell my Congressman into slavery before I let my children attend these schools"

My going rate is $0.05. $0.04 if you're into humiliation p*rn.

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (vB6UG)

106 >that happened in Upper Gwynedd?!?!?!

wowzers

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 19, 2024 02:37 PM (AcWfM)

Guess how many words the Philly Inquirer devoted to the story...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (GTqXr)

107 Remember to spay and neuter your furries.

It's the humane thing to do.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (Q4IgG)

108 In America's case It's different.

It's happening now, you're living it.

Check out the voice communications of the air traffic controllers who nearly caused the collision of two planes on the runway at Reagan Airport yesterday.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Child Molester! at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (YAtuc)

109 The only grades you need are

Awesome
Pass
No Pass

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (tCU73)

110 I think thus pushing mental illness is just Cultural Marxism to destroy families

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (fwDg9)

111 This "furry" thing has got to be another perverted social contagion. I never even heard about it 5 years ago, and living in a big city there are few perversions and weird obsessions that I don't notice. Now "furries" are terrorizing schools.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

It is. And my nine year old niece with normal loving non-lefty parents is now a "therian" which is just furry and trans grooming by a cutesy name.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (lX8VI)

112 Sounds like my son. He barely graduated high school, but it was not because of any lack of intelligence. It was because he hated school. Simple as that. Never did homework, but always aced tests. Teachers finally gave up and let him get the hell out.

I had the same problem, but I am not nearly as smart as son.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (xPJvm)
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This is a large part of why young boys are not engaged in school. It's just not interesting or engaging to them, so they tune out, regardless of their ability or potential.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (7fElN)

113 “Well, I promise, it happens all the time,” Biden added.
Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (RHGPo)

Maybe you should pay attention to "why"... Oh , wait did I say pay attention ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (Akjoo)

114 Just remember though teachers are underpaid heroes. Vote yes next time there a bond measure.

Posted by: Montec at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (Y6Wgg)

115 Sounds like my son. He barely graduated high school, but it was not because of any lack of intelligence. It was because he hated school. Simple as that. Never did homework, but always aced tests. Teachers finally gave up and let him get the hell out.

I had the same problem, but I am not nearly as smart as son.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (xPJvm)
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I worked harder in HS because that was going to matter for getting into college. I worked very hard in college because I was paying through the nose for it.

I also hated both way less than I hated Junior High. Junior High was hell on earth and it was a terrible idea. The concept makes fiscal sense for school districts, but little educational sense.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (HnUIn)

116 Well Celsius is points of H2O phase change so I get what they're doing.
Posted by: banana Dream

That's fine if you're doing chemistry. But as an indicator of air temperature it's not very useful. Plus, the greater number of degrees in Fahrenheit between the freezing and boiling points means greater precision in indicating the air temperature.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (9yWhg)

117 OK, let's offer a compromise. They get to keep NPR, with a doubled budget. We get to abolish the public schools, and forbid anyone with an Ed degree from being within 100 yards of a minor.

Deal?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (1bNHn)

118 We're watching the wrong things.

Never mind which politicians are loading up on certain stocks.

Watch for them to start buying large quantities of gold.

They will flee the country shortly after. While we're here dealing with a health care system that is failing and internet that's been cut off.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at April 19, 2024 02:41 PM (tN3kf)

119 Hope they like dangerous doctors, pilots, engineers, etc.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 02:41 PM (o2ZRX)

120 So "leftwing bias" is changed into "the truth" with a simple semantic intervention. It's as simple as changing D-students into B-students. There is no reality, only the sorcery of what words we call things.

They saw that this was total bull so they changed it once again to "my truth."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 02:41 PM (KbCG3)

121 Can they bop the furries on the nose with a rolled up newspaper? That's how we would treat real animals. Do the kids know what a newspaper is?

Posted by: InZona at April 19, 2024 02:41 PM (6zPzw)

122 I'm quite sure Joey let's little kids finger him all the time.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 02:41 PM (lX8VI)

123 So glad that Little is finally out of the California school system..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 19, 2024 02:41 PM (I8RRu)

124 Seems like there should be an entrance exam that tests for basic knowledge and abilities to get into college, instead of just accepting people based on previous performance. Same for exit.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2024 02:41 PM (YRsIm)

125 "The goal is to lower the impact of things that "fluff" grades -- extra credit, class participation and homework -- while also making it easier for lower-performing students to bounce back from failing."

Oh, there'll be plenty of fluffing going on in those classrooms. Just not of the academic sort.

Posted by: Nemo at April 19, 2024 02:41 PM (S6ArX)

126 90-100 A
80-90 B
And so on until F

That was pretty SOP for my entire education.

Posted by: Montec at April 19, 2024 02:42 PM (Y6Wgg)

127 next step is to make it illegal for colleges to require applicants to write an essay, no point in testing what they can't do.

and this is why teachers are like surgeons, you wouldn't tell a surgeon how to perform an operation, why do you want to tell a teacher how to teach? saw that the other day.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 19, 2024 02:42 PM (B1FKF)

128 "So, just like the Ivy League Universities and Law Schools have been grading for the last 30 years?"

If bullshit, wimpy grading systems are good enough for the elite fucksticks that run the country, then why not for the proles and wage slaves and their spawn?

Posted by: Sharkman at April 19, 2024 02:32 PM (4tJWN)

Because:

(a) K-12 involves basic fundamentals necessary to function in any walk of life; a society that is functionally illiterate and innumerate will cease to be anything we recognize as western civ, whereas fleecing people who've already got the basics doesn't quite produce the same effects.

(b) K-12 is more or less compulsory in some form or other, and local and federal government are confiscating our money to provide this education whether we have kids in the system or not, whereas anyone getting fleeced by collegiate education is there on a strictly voluntary basis.

(c) Higher ed has some built-in safeguards. You can have no grades effectively in law school for example, but you have to pass the bar in most places, and you have to know your stuff to get and keep a job for or else all you have is $150K or more in debt that cannot be written off.

Posted by: It's not comparable for lots of reasons, and expanding a bad practice usually isn't a great idea at April 19, 2024 02:42 PM (myMpi)

129 98 0-100 Fahrenheit is approximately the habitable range for people.
0-100 centigrade has no bearing on the habitable range for people.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (HnUIn)
_____

I've had this argument with Euroweenies and smug Americans who assure me metric is much better and more advanced than the Neanderthal American system. In some ways, and especially for math or engineering, for sure it is. But for normal, everyday stuff? No, because it doesn't relate at all to anything people are familiar with or perceive. Besides, I say: "We tried metric in the 70s and 80s, we discovered it sucked, so we got rid of it."

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

130 If furrys wants to be considered as animals, they should be forced to register as such and get shots. And after a couple bitting incidents be sent off to a farm to live their lived in peace.

Posted by: Bete at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (7h8I3)

131 Guess how many words the Philly Inquirer devoted to the story...
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 19, 2024 02:39 PM (GTqXr)
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I'll take "Pigs Get Wings" for $100, Alex.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (Be/+i)

132 That's fine if you're doing chemistry. But as an indicator of air temperature it's not very useful. Plus, the greater number of degrees in Fahrenheit between the freezing and boiling points means greater precision in indicating the air temperature.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:40 PM (9yWhg)

But you don't need all that precision. Too hot, too cold, and just right, about cover it.

Posted by: Goldilocks at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (tkR6S)

133 90-100 A
80-90 B
And so on until F

That was pretty SOP for my entire education.
Posted by: Montec at April 19, 2024 02:42 PM (Y6Wgg)
++++
This is what I am familiar with. A+ is 100. Perfect. 94-99 was A. 90-93 was A-.

The lower grades were all the same. 80-83 was B-, 84-87 was B, 88-89 was B+. Rinse and repeat through D.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (HnUIn)

134 101 Joe Biden this week said a child gave him the middle finger: “It happens all the time.”

“You — I’ve never thought I’d see a time when I’m going through a — a neighborhood or a rural town that’s in the west and see big signs that s- — have a Trump sign in the middle that says “F Biden” and having a little kid standing with his middle finger — seven years old, eight years old,” Biden said in Scranton, Pennsylvania this week.

“Well, I promise, it happens all the time,” Biden added.
Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 02:38 PM (RHGPo)

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Give these kids the vote.

Posted by: Just Lily at April 19, 2024 02:44 PM (vivhj)

135 So, companies cannot require job-seekers to take aptitude tests and the like, because they're rayciss. Now companies will not be able to use student high school grades to make any useful assessment if a job-seeker even knows left from right, up from down. Or if the job-seeker can even read street signs.

Holy Kee-rist.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 02:44 PM (5fDan)

136 Programmed mental illness:

@RichSementa 30s
Jean-Pierre Talks About Charlottesville When Asked About Pro Hamas Protestors

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:45 PM (IG4Id)

137 The world gets stupider.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 19, 2024 02:45 PM (SQ3Sy)

138 Meanwhile, at NPR: "Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' is written in blood."

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 19, 2024 02:45 PM (MvF+J)

139
So self-deleting fire guy's sign said, "Trump is with Biden And they're about to fascist coup us "

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:31 PM

I added the https:// to be helpful. Damn. Guy was out there.

Maybe some sense of humanity will descend upon the right people after watching the video and some effort will be made ...

Nah, fuck the left to hell. They brought this, let them revel in the stench of burning flesh. The CNN anchor sure enjoyed reporting on that aspect. I need a break from this insanity.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (RKVpM)

140 Teenagers are well known for their personal hygiene.
And outcast weirdos are the most fastidious about maintaining cleanliness.

So you know those furrie suits the teenagers wear day after day .... smell worse than if they were wearing the rotting skin of the actual animals they are imitating.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (yikga)

141 So, companies cannot require job-seekers to take aptitude tests and the like, because they're rayciss. Now companies will not be able to use student high school grades to make any useful assessment if a job-seeker even knows left from right, up from down. Or if the job-seeker can even read street signs.

Holy Kee-rist.
Posted by: Gref

And if you fire them for being illiterate dumbasses, they go whine to the EEOC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (9yWhg)

142 Closer to all-equity? Not "Atlas Shrugged".

This story is "Harrison Bergeron ".

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (HbfIF)

143 "Idiocracy" was just a comedy movie, right? Not a how-to guide, right?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (XMwZJ)

144 Related. 12 year old middle school girl has her skull fractured by 13 year old 'non-binary' classmate who is really a dude.

https://tinyurl.com/33edcjk4

Posted by: Heavy Meta

Fuck with my granddaughter and I will rock prison orange.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (sHgnb)

145 Cant' control crime? Just decriminalize most things and presto, crime rates are down.

Can't teach 'em? Just inflate the grades and presto, grades improve.

Same shit.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 02:29 PM (2UnvF)

Hmmm, I wonder if that would work on inflation and unemployment rates -

- The government

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (dGCAG)

146 Breaking: First responders were called to attend an overdose situation involving a nonbinary heroin-addict dressed in a dog costume.

The dispatcher told them to look for the furry with a syringe on top!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (991eG)

147 ... Besides, I say: "We tried metric in the 70s and 80s, we discovered it sucked, so we got rid of it."
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Part of that was thanks to recalcitrant highway departments, who did us a great service.

When forced to put kph speeds, they did so precisely. For example, 60 mph. Most people, if they wanted to succeed, would round up and make it 100 kph. Many state highway departments did not want to succeed, and so did a literal conversion (minus decimals) and set the speed limit at 96 kph.

Even multi-format speedometers didn't have that kind of resolution and it was big, hard-to-grok pain in the ass and the bad attitude and trolling of various state highway departments really helped kill the metric conversion. It was a case of malicious compliance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (HnUIn)

148 I added the https:// to be helpful. Damn. Guy was out there.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Motherfuck Minx 0.5 told me the address was too long for the first time.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (IG4Id)

149 Si all I gotta do is ride this motorcycle and jump over that pool with a shark in it? I'm in!

Posted by: Taylor Swift at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (2UnvF)

150 My hope is that the full court press for every perversion in the schools results in a serious backlash about ten years from now. I can say that my stepdaughter, for one, is OVER IT. I had to talk her down from her position that we need to - and this is a quote - "send the gays on a flight to the Bermuda Triangle."

That's a bit much - but they do need to be taken down a bunch of pegs. Back in the closet, stop bothering us. We let 'em outta there once and they shit on the rug. Back inside.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (0FoWg)

151 I've had this argument with Euroweenies and smug Americans who assure me metric is much better and more advanced than the Neanderthal American system. In some ways, and especially for math or engineering, for sure it is. But for normal, everyday stuff? No, because it doesn't relate at all to anything people are familiar with or perceive. Besides, I say: "We tried metric in the 70s and 80s, we discovered it sucked, so we got rid of it."
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

The American system is rather better for safety in math and engineering as it sanity checks things when scaling up or down by changing the base. Metric allows for easily missed decimal point movements so you can easily be off by an order of magnitude without noticing.

Metric does have the advantage of being easier to use though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (eYoxG)

152 142 This story is "Harrison Bergeron ".

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (HbfIF)

Law of the Jungle.

Compete or Die.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (UnA8+)

153 Can they bop the furries on the nose with a rolled up newspaper? That's how we would treat real animals. Do the kids know what a newspaper is?
Posted by: InZona

Tween the legs, sure you get in trouble; but, the furry will not bother you again.
If enough norms use the technique soon the losers will stop bothering people.
And they might never procreate so *bonus*!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (df90r)

154
@RichSementa 30s
Jean-Pierre Talks About Charlottesville When Asked About Pro Hamas Protestors
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:45 PM (IG4Id)

You mean where the FBI, I mean, Nazi's marched with tiki torches and an obese woman had a heart attack, I mean was run over by a car ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (Akjoo)

155 But for normal, everyday stuff? No, because it doesn't relate at all to anything people are familiar with or perceive.

You got it. Both ways, too.

And it's bullshit, fwiw. Why do you think 7.62 x 51 is a thing - in ammo ? Because its a damn .308 with a lighter load. Same with 5.56 x 45 - that's a .223 with a hotter load.

Back in WW II ? We came out with the 75 mm gun for armor. It was a 3" gun. And so did the Brits and even the Germans. Then the Germans and us made a deal of moving to the 76 mm gun. Same bore diameter - just a hotter load.

The German 88 gun wasn't some magical ratio. 3 1/2 inch gun.

105 mm howitzer ? 4" gun. 155 mm ? 6" gun.

Posted by: Most Municipal Police at April 19, 2024 02:48 PM (rcDDC)

156 This story is "Harrison Bergeron ".

A ten-minute must-read:
involarium.org/story/harrison-bergeron/

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 19, 2024 02:48 PM (MvF+J)

157 I was grad student in 80s.

Professor shows up in grad student offices at end of term
OK, 30% will pass this term to get credit in the major. You all have about 21 students in your sections,
so, 1 A, 2 Bs, 3 Cs, and give the rest Ds or Fs.

Me: Can I give 2 As and 1 B, I have two really good students?
Prof: Nah, I'm not gonna start making exceptions.

I still feel bad for that one kid I gave a B to. What am I saying, I was probably that kid in a few classes I took.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 19, 2024 02:48 PM (VskGF)

158 I added the https:// to be helpful. Damn. Guy was out there.

Maybe some sense of humanity will descend upon the right people after watching the video and some effort will be made ...

Nah, fuck the left to hell. They brought this, let them revel in the stench of burning flesh. The CNN anchor sure enjoyed reporting on that aspect. I need a break from this insanity.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 02:46 PM (RKVpM)

link still does not go to the exact story

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 02:48 PM (tkR6S)

159 This will only affect poor kids, rich people will make sure their kids are in private schools and are learning.
I want to know why this school district hates poor people and wants them to be illiterate and just not able to function?

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 19, 2024 02:49 PM (Wc94H)

160 Meanwhile, at NPR: "Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' is written in blood."
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 19, 2024 02:45 PM (MvF+J)

It's trite, cliche garbage without a single recorded live instrument.

Dear Mr. Trump,

Please ban pop music forever. And rap. And country.

Yours in MAGA,
Robert

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:49 PM (qDd6/)

161 160 But this one has 'diss tracks!'

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 19, 2024 02:50 PM (MvF+J)

162 What is this compulsion to experiment on the kids?

Kids have no agency. Now with the traditional family roles being displaced by the State, they are fair game for what ever fashionable desires the elites decide to impose on them.

Posted by: pawn at April 19, 2024 02:50 PM (QB+5g)

163 I got really good at converting kilometers to miles in my head when I was stationed in Turkey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:50 PM (9yWhg)

164 159 I want to know why this school district hates poor people and wants them to be illiterate and just not able to function?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 19, 2024 02:49 PM (Wc94H)

The parents failed to compete.

Their sins are now visited upon the son.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 02:50 PM (UnA8+)

165 link still does not go to the exact story
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

https://tinyurl.com/yd9fba73

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (IG4Id)

166 If the schools are going to let Furries bite other students, the least they could do is require them to get rabies shots.
Posted by: Socratease at April 19, 2024 02:26 PM (t8Egx)

students should call animal control in every time they get bitten or scratched or anything by one of the furries.

make it a straight report. "i was bitten by a dog at such and such place and MAKE the cops come out repeatedly...

maybe one enterprising parent could sue the school or the parents for failure to keep a viscious animal on a leash...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (bving)

167 153 Can they bop the furries on the nose with a rolled up newspaper? That's how we would treat real animals. Do the kids know what a newspaper is?
Posted by: InZona

Tween the legs, sure you get in trouble; but, the furry will not bother you again.
If enough norms use the technique soon the losers will stop bothering people.
And they might never procreate so *bonus*!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (df90r)

I'd give my kid an air horn if one of those furries got too close, blast them with the air horn, it works for aggressive dogs.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (Wc94H)

168 This is because the school district wants to show that they are doing well.

See... Lots of A"s and no F's.. Give us more money!

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (Akjoo)

169 Honestly, I thought the IMDB comment would resonate more. The Celsius bit was just thrown in to give a backup example.

No true American would defend that jacobin Euroweenie bullshit metric crap. Euros like it because they are used to it, but it all sucks.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (VskGF)

170 So I am teaching a class on how to change a tire and nobody actually learns how to change a tire but they all get Bs and Cs in the class.

Then one day one of my students is driving in Death Valley and gets a flat tire. The spare has air in it. The jack is in good working order, and the lug wrench is there. But this B student still can't change the tire. Being in Death Valley it is 130F and there is no cell service.

The inscription on the headstone should read "We though he knew how to change a tire"

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (tCU73)

171 Dublin, CA

23 miles east of downtown Oakland
$114,000 medium family income
Largest employer:
Fed Gov
Alameda County
Dublin School system
Ross stores

Sounds like heaven on earth.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (rJ48h)

172 I got really good at converting kilometers to miles in my head when I was stationed in Turkey.

3 km to 2 miles is close enough for my mental math.

Posted by: Most Municipal Police at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (rcDDC)

173 Well guess Human Burn Toast is just a independent whack job

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (fwDg9)

174 O/T --

Bennie Thompson introduces bill to deny Trump Secret Service protection and ensure that he's Epsteined if convicted of a felony and goes to prison:

[Washington Times:] http://tiny.cc/hj4txz

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (hhdL4)

175 Professor shows up in grad student offices at end of term
OK, 30% will pass this term to get credit in the major. You all have about 21 students in your sections,
so, 1 A, 2 Bs, 3 Cs, and give the rest Ds or Fs.

Me: Can I give 2 As and 1 B, I have two really good students?
Prof: Nah, I'm not gonna start making exceptions.

I still feel bad for that one kid I gave a B to. What am I saying, I was probably that kid in a few classes I took.
Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 19, 2024 02:48 PM (VskGF)
----
That's an absolutely terrible grading policy, though I've seen it here where I work. If ALL of the students turn in acceptable work, then they should earn the grade they deserve. Artificial cutoffs because you want to set a proper "curve" don't help students in the least.

In reality, few students will probably get that A by natural means, but don't punish the class if more than the usual number can do it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (7fElN)

176 This is what I am familiar with. A+ is 100. Perfect. 94-99 was A. 90-93 was A-.

The lower grades were all the same. 80-83 was B-, 84-87 was B, 88-89 was B+. Rinse and repeat through D.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (HnUIn)

Damn, Nadia Comaneci. You better not fart when you're up there on the balance beam.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (dGCAG)

177 160 Dear Mr. Trump,

Please ban pop music forever. And rap. And country.

Yours in MAGA,
Robert
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:49 PM (qDd6/)

Ban everything except Classical, and Military Marches.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (UnA8+)

178 rich people will make sure their kids are in private schools and are learning.

Or the Asian parents will send their kids to cram schools after school.

There is a "Kumon" cram school a half mile from my house.

Guess who patronizes it.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Child Molester! at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (YAtuc)

179 71 My Congressman is, until this weekend, Mike Gallagher. I'd sell him for a used vhs copy of Ishtar.

Posted by: Bete at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (7h8I3)

180 When trying to be balanced, requiring students to compare two sources or opinions, they engineer

Isn't engineering a construct of the white-privileged heteropatriarchy?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (a3Q+t)

181 Utah and furry's. I'm bewildered, there's no explanation for this world wide insanity.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (PRpm0)

182 "Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. "

Matthew 12:33

First and foremost it's about having God and his Holy Spirit in your life. It is then further about having parents who care enough to help guide you, and lastly but importantly it's about having good, truthful, dedicated teachers. People don't realize how important that last point is for reinforcement. But I can guarantee you the people corrupting children insidiously do. Teachers spend more time with your children than most parents. If you don't have good teachers and carr about your children's future, sell your possessions, move and find them, or if so inclined school them yourselves. Irrespective, start and end every day in prayer to God, our Father.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (vB6UG)

183 Choosing public school for a child is child abuse now.

If you can't afford private, look at religious or charter schools. There isn't any point in wasting a child's time in public school, and the risk is too great.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (lTGtQ)

184 Please ban pop music forever. And rap. And country.

Yours in MAGA,
Robert
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 02:49 PM (qDd6/)

---------------------

Music ended at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 1990.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (2UnvF)

185 147 ... Besides, I say: "We tried metric in the 70s and 80s, we discovered it sucked, so we got rid of it."
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Part of that was thanks to recalcitrant highway departments, who did us a great service.

When forced to put kph speeds, they did so precisely. For example, 60 mph. Most people, if they wanted to succeed, would round up and make it 100 kph. Many state highway departments did not want to succeed, and so did a literal conversion (minus decimals) and set the speed limit at 96 kph.

Even multi-format speedometers didn't have that kind of resolution and it was big, hard-to-grok pain in the ass and the bad attitude and trolling of various state highway departments really helped kill the metric conversion. It was a case of malicious compliance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (HnUIn)

The real reason metric didn't catch-on here is screw threads. Too many machine tools, oil field hardware, literally everything in use and in-production in the US used or manufactured used Unified Standard (Imperial) threads and threaded fasteners. Re-tooling and inventory costs would have been astronomical.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 02:53 PM (5fDan)

186 mentioned in another "Nebo" story...the school put litter boxes in the girls restrooms for the "Furries".
Also...the Principle of the schools daughter is one of those Furries.

Posted by: birdog at April 19, 2024 02:53 PM (+Fkyb)

187 We though he knew how to change a tire"
He even got a B in the class
But it was beneath him to do it

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 02:53 PM (fwDg9)

188 I got really good at converting kilometers to miles in my head when I was stationed in Turkey.

--------------

First time I drove in Mexico: multiply by 6 and then divide by 10.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 19, 2024 02:54 PM (hhdL4)

189 Sounds like heaven on earth.
Posted by: mr tmz at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (rJ48h)

Oo, baby, do you know what that's worth?

Posted by: Belinda Carlisle at April 19, 2024 02:54 PM (OguvZ)

190 All I know is that if Furries existed in my day, they would have gotten their asses beaten so bad that they would have cursed their mothers for bringing them into this world.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 02:54 PM (oJb1g)

191 Furries >>> Bronies

Posted by: Strudel at April 19, 2024 02:54 PM (a3Q+t)

192 The real reason metric didn't catch-on here is screw threads. Too many machine tools, oil field hardware, literally everything in use and in-production in the US used or manufactured used Unified Standard (Imperial) threads and threaded fasteners. Re-tooling and inventory costs would have been astronomical.
Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 02:53 PM (5fDan)
++++
As the Soviets learned when they had to do it - in the other direction - to steal the B-29.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:54 PM (HnUIn)

193 https://tinyurl.com/yd9fba73
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 02:51 PM (IG4Id)

Thank you! Gotta give the dude credit for nice use of the colored crayons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 02:54 PM (tkR6S)

194 175 That's an absolutely terrible grading policy, though I've seen it here where I work. If ALL of the students turn in acceptable work, then they should earn the grade they deserve. Artificial cutoffs because you want to set a proper "curve" don't help students in the least.

In reality, few students will probably get that A by natural means, but don't punish the class if more than the usual number can do it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (7fElN)

I had a Physics teacher who scaled on "Highest grade in the class is 100 everyone else is adjusted based on that, then clumped into grading groups."

Well, we had who turned out to be her year's valedictorian in our class, and she did everything perfect, PLUS all the extra credit, scoring 120%.

This means all the rest of us LOST 20% off of our grade off the top. Someone with an 80%? Nope, sorry, it's a 60% now.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 02:55 PM (UnA8+)

195 Btw, I feel bad for this Hrihaan Bhutani kid.

Not because he's wrapped up in all of this but because his childhood sounds like it sucks. Stressing out at his age over the prospect of not getting into an Ivy League school?

F outta here. Go bang a cheerleader and make a bad decision or two. You'll reach your level, young man.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 02:55 PM (KbCG3)

196 190 All I know is that if Furries existed in my day, they would have gotten their asses beaten so bad that they would have cursed their mothers for bringing them into this world.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 02:54 PM (oJb1g)

Unless you're like, 80+, they existed.

They just weren't this f***ed.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 02:56 PM (UnA8+)

197 So I am teaching a class on how to change a tire and nobody actually learns how to change a tire but they all get Bs and Cs in the class.

Then one day one of my students is driving in Death Valley and gets a flat tire. The spare has air in it. The jack is in good working order, and the lug wrench is there. But this B student still can't change the tire. Being in Death Valley it is 130F and there is no cell service.

The inscription on the headstone should read "We though he knew how to change a tire"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

The only time I changed a tire in my entire life was for my then-girlfriend, future wife. In the rain. Outside the company where she worked. Her female co-workers awarded me the Best Boyfriend Award. They said that their men would've just told them to call AAA.

Which is, of course, what I would do now, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:56 PM (9yWhg)

198 Remarkable coincidence that all this DEI, Equity stuff just happens to come with the side benefit of not being able to measure teacher's performance or skill.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2024 02:56 PM (8mm5p)

199 159 This will only affect poor kids, rich people will make sure their kids are in private schools and are learning.
I want to know why this school district hates poor people and wants them to be illiterate and just not able to function?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 19, 2024 02:49 PM (Wc94H)

I think it's pretty simple.

1. Some groups are never going to perform (for a variety of reasons, some of which is almost certainly innate ability). No reform can save them as a demographic, as opposed to select individuals. Progress by others would make this undeniable. We all know who's being discussed. But this is all unsayable. So no matter how perverse, anything that can be used as a fig leaf to avoid saying the unsayable will be done.

2. You can't keep other groups on the plantation if they learn to get it done for themselves. So you have to keep those capable of self-improvement from doing so. If they succeed, they won't need their white saviors, race hucksters, and other assorted do-gooders and grifters. That kind of independence cannot be allowed.

Posted by: It's intentional, planned at April 19, 2024 02:56 PM (myMpi)

200 At least the furries make it easy to figure out who's first against the wall in the burning times...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 19, 2024 02:57 PM (XMwZJ)

201 The only time I changed a tire in my entire life was for my then-girlfriend, future wife. In the rain. Outside the company where she worked. Her female co-workers awarded me the Best Boyfriend Award. They said that their men would've just told them to call AAA.

Which is, of course, what I would do now, too.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 02:56 PM (9yWhg)
++++
I've changed many a tire. I'd have called AAA. I pay them for a reason...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:57 PM (HnUIn)

202 This is what I am familiar with. A+ is 100. Perfect. 94-99 was A. 90-93 was A-.

The lower grades were all the same. 80-83 was B-, 84-87 was B, 88-89 was B+. Rinse and repeat through D.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:43 PM (HnUIn)

I've never heard a single song of hers all the way through, but isn't that what they say all her songs are? Diss tracks for her past boyfriends?

I mean, isn't her current "boyfriend" a gay homosexual, can she possibly have anything negative to say about him?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 02:57 PM (dGCAG)

203 If G*d had wanted Man to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 Disciples.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 02:57 PM (a3Q+t)

204 The metric system believes in man-made global warming.

The imperial system put a man on the Moon.

Tell me which is superior.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2024 02:57 PM (yikga)

205 I had a Physics teacher who scaled on "Highest grade in the class is 100 everyone else is adjusted based on that, then clumped into grading groups."

Well, we had who turned out to be her year's valedictorian in our class, and she did everything perfect, PLUS all the extra credit, scoring 120%.

This means all the rest of us LOST 20% off of our grade off the top. Someone with an 80%? Nope, sorry, it's a 60% now.
Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 02:55 PM (UnA8+)
---
For reasons I'll never understand, STEM professors often have overly complicated and elaborate grading schemas that are opaque to students. In my job we strongly discourage this practice because it means students have no idea how they are actually performing in class.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:58 PM (7fElN)

206 This curly-haired bikini brunette would have been pissed to have her 4.0 stripped away to make her less-capable classmates feel better:
http://tiny.cc/qj4txz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:59 PM (HnUIn)

207 >>Remarkable coincidence that all this DEI, Equity stuff just happens to come with the side benefit of not being able to measure teacher's performance or skill.

Posted by: 29Victor

you're right
if there are no standards, no one can fail

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 02:59 PM (oCjPU)

208 OT - The voting age population is estimated to be 260M as per the Federal Registry as of Dec 2023...

If Trump were to get 80M votes (doable) and RFK Jr gets 30M (15%), then Punchy would have to steal some 85M to 95M to make his win convincing for the Dems - and such a total of 190M to 205M ballots cast and counted would mean that over 75% of the entire voting population in the entire US would have to vote for someone and then be counted.

The most ever recorded in the history of the US until now? The incredible (and not very credible at all) 66% in 2020...

Before that? 49% in 2016. Yeah, the cheat will need to be at insane and laughable levels if RFK Jr takes 10% or more of the Dem vote. The number of casted and counted votes in the US would have had to have gone up some 25% in just 8 short years - from 135M to 200M plus - ie 75M or more votes...and with no explanation by the media why that might be at all - this simply cannot be done...

Posted by: Boswell at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (K+UlC)

209 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (0FoWg)

Sometimes I think kids know more than we do.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (lX8VI)

210 OT: US Hwy 50 in Western Colorado will be closed in both directions for an undetermined length of time due to concerns about a possible crack in the bridge across Blue Mesa Reservoir. There is no local detour available. To get from Montrose to Gunnison, a 60 mile commute, the CDOT recommends using I-70, a detour of about 350 miles or US 1160 out of Durango, also about a 350 mile roundabout route..

This will have a major impact on commerce between the two towns (Lots of commuters), not too mention interstate commerce in the region.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (991eG)

211 205 For reasons I'll never understand, STEM professors often have overly complicated and elaborate grading schemas that are opaque to students. In my job we strongly discourage this practice because it means students have no idea how they are actually performing in class.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:58 PM (7fElN)

This wasn't even college. I didn't get to go to college. ("No Straight As, No College!", my father decided right before I graduated) This was still high school.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (UnA8+)

212 My Congressman is, until this weekend, Mike Gallagher. I'd sell him for a used vhs copy of Ishtar.
Posted by: Bete at April 19, 2024 02:52 PM (7h8I3)

I tried to watch Ishtar once. Don't recall if I finished it or not, but I do remember thinking "this thing really is crap."

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (dGCAG)

213 I think my truck has on speedometer miles and Km. Not really sure

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (fwDg9)

214 >This curly-haired bikini brunette would have been...

hey lady, watch out for that guy behind you

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (oCjPU)

215 If G*d had wanted Man to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 Disciples.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 02:57 PM (a3Q+t)

Jesse Helms. LMAO

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 03:01 PM (lX8VI)

216 Betterhalf was convinced by a idiot *friend* to take Econ pass/fail in college.
At the final the instructor said something like "we have a pass/fail student with all the points available. The rest of your grades will start at a B." Then he looked directly at the Betterhalf and told her to just sign her name to the final and leave.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2024 03:01 PM (df90r)

217 This wasn't even college. I didn't get to go to college. ("No Straight As, No College!", my father decided right before I graduated) This was still high school.
Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (UnA8+)
----
That makes the grading policy you suffered through even more stupid...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (7fElN)

218
I seem to remember, seems like just a few years ago, this concept of "equity grading" was used a counter for things like redistribution of wealth and other communist crap.

Hey, kids, how would like your grades to be redistributed in similar fashion? They didn't like that.

And now, it's here. You can't do parody anymore. No matter how extreme an example of something like this you come up with to carry something to its logical conclusion, they'll do it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (w6EFb)

219 Yeah baby. I'll come over and give you my 15.24 centimeters.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (J8LnB)

220 The imperial system put a man on the Moon.

Tell me which is superior.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

IIRC, back in the 90s, we lost some sorta spacecraft that was destroyed when it crashed on the Moon or Mars. The reason for the crash was that part of the craft had been built using the metric system (I guess outside the US), and part had been built here using the Imperial system, and nobody had thought to make sure there was no mismatch in the specifications between the two systems.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (9yWhg)

221 208 OT - The voting age population is estimated to be 260M as per the Federal Registry as of Dec 2023...

Posted by: Boswell at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (K+UlC)

They would also need to be registered and eligible. Due to mass migration, illegal and not, a lot are not eligible.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (eYoxG)

222 Tell me which is superior.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Myanmar Johnson agrees~~!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 03:03 PM (IG4Id)

223 2. You can't keep other groups on the plantation if they learn to get it done for themselves. So you have to keep those capable of self-improvement from doing so. If they succeed, they won't need their white saviors, race hucksters, and other assorted do-gooders and grifters. That kind of independence cannot be allowed.

Posted by: It's intentional, planned at April 19, 2024 02:56 PM (myMpi)

---------------

AKA "Crabs in a bucket." [h/t Larry Elder]

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 19, 2024 03:03 PM (u6pOz)

224 Furries get the bullet.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 19, 2024 03:04 PM (ONQzN)

225 Devin Nunes wrote a letter to the SEC about illegal naked shorting of truth social stock. He explained what naked shorting is. The specific regulation being violated, how he knows it is happening, and who was doing it.

Twitter responses: Devin Nunes stoopid he doesn't know shorting stonks is legal.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 03:04 PM (PI/SC)

226 I wish I was 16 again and going to a California school. I would have graduated with a 6.0 GPA..........

Posted by: Ferd Berfal at April 19, 2024 03:04 PM (qpLSv)

227 I'm working on one course right now where the professor has a "mastery" policy where students MUST get 100% on the required assessments. If they don't, they fail the course. Granted, these quizzes are falling-off-a-log easy and you get as many chances as you need to pass them, so it's not that much of a burden.

That's just for a C. If you want an A or B, you can do the optional assessments that are more challenging and complex.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 03:04 PM (7fElN)

228 217 That makes the grading policy you suffered through even more stupid...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (7fElN)

He was... eccentric. Had a touch of "mad scientist" to him.

But he also took himself very seriously, about 99% of the time.

The only thing he had a sense of humor about was the time he got hit by a truck.

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 03:04 PM (UnA8+)

229 OT: US Hwy 50 in Western Colorado will be closed in both directions for an undetermined length of time due to concerns about a possible crack in the bridge across Blue Mesa Reservoir. There is no local detour available. To get from Montrose to Gunnison, a 60 mile commute, the CDOT recommends using I-70, a detour of about 350 miles or US 1160 out of Durango, also about a 350 mile roundabout route..

This will have a major impact on commerce between the two towns (Lots of commuters), not too mention interstate commerce in the region.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (991eG)

If a guy had a couple of nice buses and a helicopter, he could make bank.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 03:05 PM (tkR6S)

230 >Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (9yWhg)

same thing happened with Hubble Space Telescope-
the specs to grind the mirrors were off, and the damn thing couldn't 'see'

NASA had to send up a crew to correct it

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:05 PM (oCjPU)

231
Typical marxism. One size fits none.

Posted by: Speller at April 19, 2024 03:05 PM (pSotA)

232 "The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way..."

Looks like another dystopian sci-fi book has come true ahead of schedule.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 19, 2024 03:05 PM (FCbAQ)

233 It needs to be stressed that this is all about protecting teachers, not students.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 19, 2024 03:05 PM (VskGF)

234 209 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 02:47 PM (0FoWg)

Sometimes I think kids know more than we do.

Yes, Yes we do.

Posted by: Greta at April 19, 2024 03:05 PM (og5mY)

235 Go bang a cheerleader
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 02:55 PM

Only if he's a winner.

Posted by: John Patrick Mason at April 19, 2024 03:05 PM (a3Q+t)

236 The metric system is for soccer fans.

Posted by: Kratwurst at April 19, 2024 03:07 PM (nIRE6)

237 Glad to see lots of people recognize which Dystopia we are racing towards.

This one is "Harrison Bergeron".

But our rulers are using all of them as how-to manuals.

We've got Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, 1984 going on as well- and probably a bunch more I haven't read.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 19, 2024 03:07 PM (JMAcK)

238 We live in interesting times.

BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

https://shorturl.at/NOW12

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 19, 2024 03:07 PM (FVME7)

239 If G*d had wanted Man to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 Disciples.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 02:57 PM (a3Q+t)

That's funny.

Metric does make the math easier, but it's not required for "True Science (tm)"!!!!! In a fluids class, I routinely converted Imperial units into metric, solved the problem, and then converted back to Imperial.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2024 03:07 PM (pJWtt)

240 This curly-haired bikini brunette would have been pissed to have her 4.0 stripped away to make her less-capable classmates feel better:
http://tiny.cc/qj4txz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:59 PM (HnUIn)

I'd give her an A. I'd give her all the A's she could handle.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 03:08 PM (k/iTO)

241 That grading system gives parents no idea how their children are doing.

On a related note, our boss went to a few conferences at which other administrators touted the "50% rule". That meant that EVERY assignment, quiz, or test earns at least 50% of the points. Turn a test in with only your name on it? 50/100 Turn in something late and/or incomplete? You're failing, but not miserably.

He brought it up at meeting, where it was promptly shot down by everyone.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 19, 2024 03:09 PM (fxCK2)

242 One thing I've realized after working with teachers for 12 years is that it's very hard to get them to commit to political or ideological neutrality in the classroom because:

C. They do not recognize particular beliefs as political or ideological, and believe they're "just teaching truth.
=========
C. Totalitarianism - They swam in politically tainted waters so long long they cannot even see the water or know it exists.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2024 03:09 PM (cOq4q)

243 BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

https://shorturl.at/NOW12
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 19, 2024 03:07 PM (FVME7)
---
To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, at least he'll be warm the rest of his life...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 03:09 PM (7fElN)

244 >It needs to be stressed that this is all about protecting teachers, not students.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM
---

it's also about assuaging the feelings of certain demographics that historically perform poorly in school

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:10 PM (oCjPU)

245
---
For reasons I'll never understand, STEM professors often have overly complicated and elaborate grading schemas that are opaque to students. In my job we strongly discourage this practice because it means students have no idea how they are actually performing in class.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 02:58 PM (7fElN)

This would have worked well in a Computer Science course that the college foolishly put in the courses for Linguistic Degrees from Liberal Arts. Hey, they have Computer Languages, right?

The course started with Turing Machines, algorithms, and worked up to Assembler.

It was throwing these liberal arts people into a wood chipper. One of the three sessions had an average grade of 31. The CS people had decent grades, and the liberal arts did terrible. And as a grader, we tried *hard* to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 19, 2024 03:10 PM (eoQWY)

246 Metric does make the math easier, but it's not required for "True Science (tm)"!!!!! In a fluids class, I routinely converted Imperial units into metric, solved the problem, and then converted back to Imperial.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2024 03:07 PM (pJWtt)

I often do the same. And the conversion itself serves as a check on the reasonableness of your result.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 03:10 PM (tkR6S)

247 >BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

that's a little over the top

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:10 PM (oCjPU)

248 Futa Ponies > Furries >>> Bronies

Posted by: wth at April 19, 2024 03:10 PM (v0R5T)

249 We've got Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, 1984 going on as well- and probably a bunch more I haven't read.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 19, 2024 03:07 PM (JMAcK)
===

Ref. 1985 by Anthony Burgess

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2024 03:11 PM (RIvkX)

250 >BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place
.......

THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY

Posted by: wth at April 19, 2024 03:11 PM (v0R5T)

251 229 OT: US Hwy 50 in Western Colorado will be closed in both directions for an undetermined length of time due to concerns about a possible crack in the bridge across Blue Mesa Reservoir. There is no local detour available.

How does that area of CO typically vote? That will be your estimate for how long it takes to fix.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 03:11 PM (PI/SC)

252 It needs to be stressed that this is all about protecting teachers, not students

Maybe. But you can't teach people who don't want to learn.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2024 03:11 PM (YRsIm)

253 237 We've got Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, 1984 going on as well- and probably a bunch more I haven't read.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 19, 2024 03:07 PM (JMAcK)

Don't forget Zardoz ("The Penis is Evil").

Posted by: XTC at April 19, 2024 03:11 PM (UnA8+)

254 Perfessor at 227 - I sorta like that grading system. You either have a grasp on the essentials or you don't. Some people will be more adept and will be rewarded accordingly. Nobody will be below the minimum threshold.

Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2024 03:12 PM (NABBY)

255 I'm old enough to remember the HQ's resident tranny furry

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 19, 2024 03:12 PM (BKRsK)

256 240 This curly-haired bikini brunette would have been pissed to have her 4.0 stripped away to make her less-capable classmates feel better:
http://tiny.cc/qj4txz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2024 02:59 PM (HnUIn)

I'd give her an A. I'd give her all the A's she could handle.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 03:08 PM (k/iTO)

C'mon man, there are two obvious jokes right there.

I'd give her a C. I'd give her all the C she could handle.

And then same joke using D.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 03:12 PM (KbCG3)

257 One thing I've realized after working with teachers for 12 years is that it's very hard to get them to commit to political or ideological neutrality in the classroom because:

C. They do not recognize particular beliefs as political or ideological, and believe they're "just teaching truth.
=========
C. Totalitarianism - They swam in politically tainted waters so long long they cannot even see the water or know it exists.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2024 03:09 PM (cOq4q)

So much for "my truth" from the folks who reject the concept of objective truth.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2024 03:12 PM (pJWtt)

258
Yep, often do (or used to) calculations in SI/MKS. But the trouble is, I "think" in terms of English Customary units. If something is "small" or "big" or a little bit or a whole lot, I need it in English units.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 19, 2024 03:12 PM (w6EFb)

259 BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

that's a little over the top
Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:10 PM (oCjPU)

Burnin', burnin', burnin'
I got my skin a-burnin'
No hide!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 03:12 PM (tkR6S)

260 How to crash a country for dummies.
Next, Congress spouses will service with new citizens.
And the draft renewal.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 19, 2024 03:13 PM (J8LnB)

261 I'd give her an A. I'd give her all the A's she could handle.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 03:08 PM

Many here grade on the Cup scale.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 03:13 PM (a3Q+t)

262 247 >BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

that's a little over the top
Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:10 PM (oCjPU)

"We said medium rare!" - Cannibals that ate Biden's Uncle

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 03:13 PM (KbCG3)

263 I'm an imperial/SAE man all the way, but I would be ok with all fasteners being metric.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 03:14 PM (oJb1g)

264 Extra credit is a way for low-achieving students to raise their grade through additional work. Can't have that, let's slam the door on that escape route from failure.
Posted by: Socratease at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (t8Egx)

its virtually always the excellent students who do extra credit stuff because they enjoy the subject and have time since the assignments are straightforward for them.

Now, if the credit is for marching in a riot or something, that's just a way to bypass the class entirely.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 19, 2024 03:14 PM (eoQWY)

265 >>BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place
---

a CNN reporter on the scene said a man has just 'emblazoned' himself

em·bla·zon

verb
emblazoned (past tense) · emblazoned (past participle)

conspicuously inscribe or display a design on:

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:14 PM (oCjPU)

266 Yeah doing away with the SAT scores was a thing when my kids were entering colleges. Then the scoring system was diluted to make scores appear higher than the old system.

Call it the great dumbing down. Call it everyone goes to college.

I call it gold-plating the road to indentured servitude for our new feudal system.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 19, 2024 03:14 PM (wBaIH)

267 220 The imperial system put a man on the Moon.

Tell me which is superior.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

IIRC, back in the 90s, we lost some sorta spacecraft that was destroyed when it crashed on the Moon or Mars. The reason for the crash was that part of the craft had been built using the metric system (I guess outside the US), and part had been built here using the Imperial system, and nobody had thought to make sure there was no mismatch in the specifications between the two systems.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (9yWhg)

Changing the measurement standard for screw threads in the nation that outstripped the world combines in manufacturing would have been ultra-costy and non-US consumer friendly.

As in, guy goes into an auto-parts store and asks for some item with threaded holes in it. Clerk asks him if the engine was made before or after year X. Guy tells him before. Clerk checks inventory and tells him they ran out of the one he needs two years ago; no one makes them anymore because they have the old, Imperial-thread studs. Then tells the poor guy, you know you should replace your engine with a metric thread one. Guy is acquitted for murder.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 03:14 PM (5fDan)

268 BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

So, anyway

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 03:15 PM (sHgnb)

269
If you wanted to switch to a new system of units, you've got get the young 'uns to "think" in terms of the new units from the get-go. That's very difficult, since the older folks doing the teaching think in terms of the old.

In college, I had a math prof who took it on himself to make his students like in terms of radians, and not degrees. He tried to do that, never using degrees.

But, then he messed up and used degrees. I think that took the wind of out of his sails. We all chuckled.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 19, 2024 03:15 PM (w6EFb)

270 C'mon man, there are two obvious jokes right there.

I'd give her a C. I'd give her all the C she could handle.

And then same joke using D.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 19, 2024 03:12 PM (KbCG3)

I almost said I'd give her all the O's she could handle.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 03:15 PM (k/iTO)

271 I don't know how the human torch voted before, but I assume (if he dies) he'll be a reliable Democrat voter in the fall.

Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2024 03:15 PM (NABBY)

272 Asian Tiger patents gonna love that equity grade redistribution!
That was sarcasm btw
I predict Godzilla shows up at the next school district meeting

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 19, 2024 03:16 PM (Ka3bZ)

273
Ooh-ooh-ooh, I feel my temperature rising
Help me, I'm flaming
I must be a 109
Burning, burning, burning
And nothing can cool me, yeah
I just might turn into smoke but I feel fine

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:16 PM (oCjPU)

274 271 I don't know how the human torch voted before, but I assume (if he dies) he'll be a reliable Democrat voter in the fall.
Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2024 03:15 PM (NABBY)

======

Implying that there is voter fraud in NYC, the home of Tammany, is just backwards thinking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 19, 2024 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

275 BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place
---

The good news is, He will still be able to vote for Joe Biden in Nov.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 03:17 PM (PI/SC)

276 Yeah baby. I'll come over and give you my 15.24 centimeters.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 19, 2024 03:02 PM (J8LnB)

Braggart.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 03:17 PM (dGCAG)

277 Kit Ramsey: Happy Premise Number Three: even if it feels like I might ignite...I probably won't.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 19, 2024 03:18 PM (Be/+i)

278 How does that area of CO typically vote? That will be your estimate for how long it takes to fix.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Buttplug will get right on it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 19, 2024 03:18 PM (FVME7)

279 I hope one of the jurors sets himself on fire during the trial.

Posted by: wth at April 19, 2024 03:18 PM (v0R5T)

280 Wonder if he had a cigarette to go out on

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 03:18 PM (fwDg9)

281 The good news is, He will still be able to vote for Joe Biden in Nov.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 03:17 PM

He's exactly what they want - an enthusiastic, indeed fired-up voter.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 03:18 PM (a3Q+t)

282 ABC news-douche Terry Moran already blamed the self-immolation on Trump. No kidding. Said it was the "culmination" of his ride down the escalator in 2015.

Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2024 03:19 PM (NABBY)

283
🔥I'M JUST A HUNKA HUNKA BURNIN' LOVE🔥

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:19 PM (oCjPU)

284 BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

*clap clap* FLAME ON!

From the looks of the video, he went full well done.

Never go well done.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 03:19 PM (sHgnb)

285 This would have screwed students like me. In grade school - high school I did the bare minimum needed to get good grades. Often I would do all homework minutes before class started, or during class, and coasted through with 90.01% A. If they would have changed it to harder I would have done nothing. Zero effort. Which I guess is what they want.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 19, 2024 03:20 PM (Y6IkP)

286 159 This will only affect poor kids, rich people will make sure their kids are in private schools and are learning.
I want to know why this school district hates poor people and wants them to be illiterate and just not able to function?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 19, 2024 02:49 PM (Wc94H)

Well they will TRY.

The trigger for the Recall of Governor Newsome was rich So Cals finding out that their expensive private schools were teaching the same DEI / anti american stuff that the poor kids were getting.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 19, 2024 03:20 PM (eoQWY)

287 268 BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

--

OMG! Did they just assume xir gender?!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 19, 2024 03:20 PM (Ka3bZ)

288 OT: US Hwy 50 in Western Colorado will be closed in both directions for an undetermined length of time due to concerns about a possible crack in the bridge across Blue Mesa Reservoir. There is no local detour available. To get from Montrose to Gunnison, a 60 mile commute, the CDOT recommends using I-70, a detour of about 350 miles or US 1160 out of Durango, also about a 350 mile roundabout route..

This will have a major impact on commerce between the two towns (Lots of commuters), not too mention interstate commerce in the region.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (991eG)

Holy smokes! I've driven over that bridge many times. It's a lovely area.

I wonder what happens when I-70 gets shut down (and you know it will) due to debris falling on the lanes through Glenwood Canyon, and/or a vehicle falls from the elevated westbound lanes onto the eastbound lanes.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 03:20 PM (dGCAG)

289
Never go well done.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 03:19 PM (sHgnb)
----------
That's what A-1 Sauce is for.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 19, 2024 03:20 PM (Be/+i)

290 Never go well done.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 03:19 PM

No respect for Chemjeff?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 03:20 PM (a3Q+t)

291 Hot blooded! Check it and see. I've got a fever of 803!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 19, 2024 03:21 PM (FVME7)

292 Muldoon: that bridge in CO. Is there easy road access, maybe boat ramps, to the reservoir on both sides?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 03:21 PM (tkR6S)

293 This would have screwed students like me. In grade school - high school I did the bare minimum needed to get good grades. Often I would do all homework minutes before class started, or during class, and coasted through with 90.01% A. If they would have changed it to harder I would have done nothing. Zero effort. Which I guess is what they want.
Posted by: banana Dream

Fist bump. A 75 graduates the same as a 95.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 03:21 PM (sHgnb)

294 Build a fire for a man and he'll be warm for one night. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

- Deep Thoughts by banana Dream

Posted by: banana Dream at April 19, 2024 03:21 PM (Y6IkP)

295 BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

He'll be a lot easier to get the polls dead than alive - Dems always play to their strengths.

Thanks, Burning Man!

Posted by: Boswell at April 19, 2024 03:21 PM (K+UlC)

296 > How does that area of CO typically vote? That will be your estimate for how long it takes to fix.

well it's Western Slope, which tends to mean authentic Coloradans, so it probably leans a little rightward unless I'm completely wrong in which case someone here will tell me

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 03:21 PM (oCjPU)

297 nood

Blower

Posted by: banana Dream at April 19, 2024 03:21 PM (Y6IkP)

298 Nood karma

Posted by: Bete at April 19, 2024 03:22 PM (7h8I3)

299 Muldoon: that bridge in CO. Is there easy road access, maybe boat ramps, to the reservoir on both sides?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Ahhhhh... man. Boat ramp just closed

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 03:22 PM (PI/SC)

300 BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

--

OMG! Did they just assume xir gender?!
Posted by: vmom

Flamers are men.
Flamettes are women.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 03:22 PM (sHgnb)

301 This would have screwed students like me. In grade school - high school I did the bare minimum needed to get good grades. Often I would do all homework minutes before class started, or during class, and coasted through with 90.01% A. If they would have changed it to harder I would have done nothing. Zero effort. Which I guess is what they want.
Posted by: banana Dream

Fist bump. A 75 graduates the same as a 95.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2024 03:21 PM (sHgnb)

Like it says on the bumper sticker, "My C Student knocked up your Honor Roll Student."

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 03:22 PM (k/iTO)

302 265 >>BREAKING: A man just set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place
---

a CNN reporter on the scene said a man has just 'emblazoned' himself

em·bla·zon

verb
emblazoned (past tense) · emblazoned (past participle)

conspicuously inscribe or display a design on:
Posted by: Don Black at April

I thought you were kidding until I saw the same quote - with no correction- on Breitbart. Help us.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 03:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

303 Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2024 03:00 PM (991eG)

Holy smokes! I've driven over that bridge many times. It's a lovely area.

I wonder what happens when I-70 gets shut down (and you know it will) due to debris falling on the lanes through Glenwood Canyon, and/or a vehicle falls from the elevated westbound lanes onto the eastbound lanes.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 03:20 PM (dGCAG)

And if you can get on 92, which is east of Montrose, just west of the reservoir area, it's a gorgeous drive. Take you forever to get back to civilization, but it's quite worth a leisurely trek on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 03:24 PM (dGCAG)

304 ABC news-douche Terry Moran already blamed the self-immolation on Trump.
.......

You don't have to sell me, I'm already voting for Trump.

Posted by: wth at April 19, 2024 03:24 PM (v0R5T)

305 > Call it the great dumbing down. Call it everyone goes to college.

75 years ago, the average college kid's IQ was 130. Today it's 100.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2024 03:25 PM (eyxn4)

306 And I'm not saying Montrose or Gunnison are exactly "civilization," but close enough.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 03:25 PM (dGCAG)

307 He was... eccentric. Had a touch of "mad scientist" to him.

But he also took himself very seriously, about 99% of the time.

The only thing he had a sense of humor about was the time he got hit by a truck.
Posted by: XTC
------
He has no business being an instructor of anything. His ego was driving the grading policy===not common sense as to educational goals for students.

I am familiar with assessment of student learning outcomes having been tasked with it at the collegiate level as well as how to test for it.

My courses pretty much followed that pattern before I became involved with assessment at the departmental level but dealing with departmental assessment goals and integrating those macro outcomes with the university where I worked sharpened my educational practices.

Posted by: whig at April 19, 2024 03:26 PM (nWD6/)

308 I've always heard that the gross IQ of the planet doesn't change at all, but the population keeps increasing...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2024 03:26 PM (MeG8a)

309 305 > Call it the great dumbing down. Call it everyone goes to college.

75 years ago, the average college kid's IQ was 130. Today it's 100.
Posted by: bonhomme
======
Average students can achieve mastery of many subjects--it just takes longer for them to do it and often takes multiple teaching techniques to get the a-ha! moment.

Excellent students get it pretty much regardless of the format of the class and many times regardless of the quality of their instructor if the course is memorization and reading primarily. True STEM courses can be a bit different depending on the student's mathematical background and ability.

Posted by: whig at April 19, 2024 03:28 PM (nWD6/)

310 264 Extra credit is a way for low-achieving students to raise their grade through additional work. Can't have that, let's slam the door on that escape route from failure.
Posted by: Socratease at April 19, 2024 02:28 PM (t8Egx)

its virtually always the excellent students who do extra credit stuff because they enjoy the subject and have time since the assignments are straightforward for them.
Posted by: Oldcat
=====
I found from my career in higher ed that it was bimodal. Hardworking students often did the extra credit if the assignment was reasonable as did those few excellent students that found education as 'fun'. Lazy students went with the flow until after grades posted made it apparent that they would fail--thus the late minute appeal for extra credit after they took my finals and did poorly on them.

Posted by: whig at April 19, 2024 03:33 PM (nWD6/)

311 Colleges where skill matters - STEM and Business colleges in large universities - will realize this high school sucks, and won't admit them to those programs.

The only people who get hurt here are high achieving students, because there is no way for the college to know if they were a good student trapped in a B, or a B student. You'd better nail your SAT or ACT.

Better yet - move out of the district or home school.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 19, 2024 03:44 PM (GZYu7)

312 Give the Principal 4 D's a F and a H and the whole School district to since they don't want to harm the feelings of whining little snowflakes

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 19, 2024 05:33 PM (wGqjj)

313 Held: An employee challenging a job transfer under Title VII must show that the transfer brought about some harm with respect to an identifiable term or condition of employment, but that harm need not be significant.

Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 09:19 PM (RovqD)

314 Average students can achieve mastery of many subjects--it just takes longer for them to do it and often takes multiple teaching techniques to get the a-ha! moment.

Lol

Posted by: Justin Pinochet Castreau at April 19, 2024 10:18 PM (V8yYW)

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