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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are the far-right astroturfers so obsessed with the 50% rule? They seem to bring it up every couple of months. I'm okay with it. [/quote]

You are really dense.

The whole reason the rule exists is because progressives saw too many brown kids failing out and not being able to pass. Rather than do the common sense thing of holding them to a high standard and offering them more help to reach the bar, they went with bigotry of low expectations and lowered the bar for them.  Yay!  Our numbers show more minority kids passing now!  Yet the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  If kids know they can get automatic 50% grades for doing zero work except fir basically putting their name on an assignment and turning it in weeks late, it incentivizes them to jerkoff during school hours and roam the hallways doing whatever they want.  They can skip school and have many days of truancy with basically no consequences. Parents know that if they take even less active interest in their kids’ education that teachers cannot give zeros if the parents don’t respond.  You can fane the entire system so that you can do virtually zero work during the semester and still pass due to the rule.  In the end you just keep pushing through a bunch of loser kids who can only read, write, and do math at the second grade level by the time they’re in high school.  The rule also contributes to the extreme problem with discipline rampant in MCPS.  [/quote]

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