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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a sad situation, another historically good Fairfax County school being dragged down by educational experimentation. Apparently for the purpose of inflating the grades of those at the bottom by ignoring missed assignments, and suppressing the grades of those at the top that work hard.  I suppose for the purpose of creating the appearance of a large mediocre middle, with no winners and no losers. But once real life hits, many will likely be losers, and consider their education from a supposedly “good school” in Fairfax County to be a complete failure.

High school is the time that students learn the work habits that are required to succeed in college, and life in general. Madison students will sadly forgo the important lesson that hard work/preparation leads to good grades, and individual success. Why study hard to master Newtonian mechanics in physics, when you can make it up later, hopefully, in electricity and magnetism to erase your poor effort in Newtonian mechanics. (These are two totally different topics covered in the 1st year Physics). Even if the student pulls this off, the chance to learn Newtonian mechanics (the basis for all mechanical engineering) in high school will be lost forever.

The workforce today is global. That means our students will have to compete with those from China, Japan, S.Korea, etc. for future jobs, even in US-based companies. And I can guarantee you they are not doing this nonsense in China, they would simply laugh in your face for even suggesting it.

[b]Who is the bigger winner from all this ? Its Amazon (and the like), because they will have plenty of “drones” competing for their low-wage jobs due to their failed public education[/b]. But some of us had higher hopes for the future, and are paying ever increasing high property taxes to support, what is supposed to be, a “good” school district.

It’s just sad.  
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I’m so embarrassed for you,[/quote]

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