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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hooray for the Wakefield teachers. It's time for APS to stop racing to the bottom. I'm a liberal who is all for most DEI initiatives but the policies they're choosing hurt everyone. [b]What an insult to low-income or ESL families to lower standards in their names. [/b][/quote]
What I am loving is that the ESL families are actually coming out and calling for more structure.  My my kid's APS middle school was proposing to eliminate letter grades, so many parents of all backgrounds came out against the proposal.  During the PTA meeting with the principal on this topic, it was very clear that the school was quite surprised at the negative parent response.  Leading questions about "how did you feel as a child when you received a bad grade?" were met with responses like "I thought I better study harder because I don't want to be the kind of person who gets bad grades and doesn't work to improve.  That's not who I want to be".  This was unanimously echoed by black, white, latino, and asian parents.  I'm so happy the Wakefield teachers are coming out against this type of lowering of standards.
  
I say this as the child of poor, immigrant parents myself- kids will rise to meet expectations put on them.  If you have no expectations for them, they will not rise.[/quote]

ALL OF THIS!!! Why the supposed expert professional educators in charge (many teachers, but particularly admin/central office) don't understand this, I just cannot figure out. It's about stats. APS wants better numbers.[/quote]

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