Top SF high school sees record spike in failing grades after dropping merit-based admission system

[Anonymous]

"San Francisco’s Lowell High School, regarded as one of the best in the nation, is seeing a record spike in Ds and Fs among its first batch of students admitted in fall 2021 through a new lottery system instead of its decades-long merit-based admissions.

Of the 620 first-year students admitted through the lottery, nearly one in four (24.4%) received at least one letter grade of D or F in the said semester, according to internal records obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. This marks a triple increase from 7.9% in fall 2020 and 7.7% in fall 2019."

https://news.yahoo.com/top-sf-high-school-sees-192303605.html

[Anonymous]

Why is this news? It went from students who have already proven themselves to random students. Of course they are not all capable. This will eventually turn into most public schools where grades are inflated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this news? It went from students who have already proven themselves to random students. Of course they are not all capable. This will eventually turn into most public schools where grades are inflated.

+1 Yea, who didn't see this coming. Even in MCPS when they changed the admissions criteria they found that incoming cohort needed more support and were less prepared.

[Anonymous]

Yep. My kids go to a lottery based immersion school. As good as the school is, it would be light years better if there were *some* requirements to get in. But that’s not “fair”. So the drop out rate from entry to graduation is nearly 40%.

[Anonymous]

US in decline.

[Anonymous]

Shocking!

Educational standards have been replaced by magical thinking.

[Anonymous]

SFUSF is such a tremendous mess.

[Anonymous]

SFUSD

[Anonymous]

Merit-based high school admission is so gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Merit-based high school admission is so gross.

How about appropriate challenge? Is that gross?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"San Francisco’s Lowell High School, regarded as one of the best in the nation, is seeing a record spike in Ds and Fs among its first batch of students admitted in fall 2021 through a new lottery system instead of its decades-long merit-based admissions.

Of the 620 first-year students admitted through the lottery, nearly one in four (24.4%) received at least one letter grade of D or F in the said semester, according to internal records obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. This marks a triple increase from 7.9% in fall 2020 and 7.7% in fall 2019."

https://news.yahoo.com/top-sf-high-school-sees-192303605.html

[Anonymous]

Will end up like Banneker or Basis in DC, with high levels of attrition. I guess that’s one way to do rigorous high schools, but doesn’t seem like a huge improvement. SF should have kept Lowell as-is then opened a Basis by lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Merit-based high school admission is so gross.

you sound like a teenager.

Why is it "gross"? Why shouldn't very highly able students attend a merit based program?

Did you know that in some public HS, a student cannot opt to take AP classes, that they have to take AP placement exams to take the class? Is that "gross", too?

[Anonymous]

the f-ed up thing about this is that SF chose to destroy a high-performing school in the name of creating opportunity, instead of actually creating more opportunity. why didn’t they create honors tracks at all high schools, or open a new honors high school by lottery? the careless destruction of a functioning institution is just unforgivable public malfeasance by SFUSD.

[Anonymous]

No big surprise there. The progressive left wants to destroy this country and undermining the notion of academic merit is just one part of their game plan.