Michael A. S. Locklear

As George W. Bush put it, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

@RogersHistory @MrDixonMath In South Carolina, the school district can put damages on the student’s “Senior Debt List.” The student won’t be given his/her diploma until all debts are paid. I’ve had 12th grade students who had to pay late fees for library books from 3rd grade!

@MrDixonMath Can you insist parents pay for the damages?

Is vandalism a problem in your school? How does your school respond?

@Ed_Realist @wight1984 @tombennett71 *its own little fiefdom

@Ed_Realist @wight1984 @tombennett71 Well until we do, each school will be it’s fiefdom with the power to badger and pressure and paperwork every teacher into lowering their standards until they pass along students who haven’t mastered the subject all so the almighty graduation rate doesn’t decrease.

I was an astonished when I discovered as an adult that some countries did *not* do this. This is like measuring your height every day for ten years through adolescence and using the average to decide if you get to ride Space Mountain.

@Ed_Realist @wight1984 @tombennett71 Ok. They need external assessment too.

@mas_locklear @wight1984 @tombennett71 Yeah, a lot of those would fall under CTE in the US.

@Ed_Realist @wight1984 @tombennett71 And that’s just 1 exam board. Other exam boards may offer GCSEs in different subjects. Not to mention the other qualifications that students can take which all have their own exams.

@Ed_Realist @wight1984 @tombennett71 The average English student takes between 8-10 GCSEs and the study each course for 2 years. So it would be most subjects studied. aqa.org.uk/qualifications…

@Ed_Realist @wight1984 @tombennett71 Multiple choice exams on 4 or 5 courses that don’t count or only count 20% of a final grade is not the same as what they are talking about. Most high school teachers in the US do not even teach tested subjects.

@wight1984 @tombennett71 They are run by a state board and we could do it. Again, it's not alien to the US. We have such things. We just don't use them as qualifiers.

@_Felton @HKorbey *classwork, not classes

@_Felton @HKorbey Any assignment you give students. Homework, classes, quizzes, and tests. They’re all graded and averaged usually at different weights. So tests might count 40% of the final grade, quizzes 30%, etc.,. Most schools will set minimum numbers in each category and grading period.

I've interviewed multiple parents about this style of math "ungrading," here's how it often works in reality: no one checks HW, they work on it in groups in class or teacher puts problems on the board, no one checks in with kid to see if answers are right, kid fails test.

@jim_again @edudissenter 1/2 AP is not accessible. Some schools only offer 1 or 2 courses and in most only Honors or GT students take them. Also, it’s testing them on COLLEGE LEVEL CONTENT for COLLEGE CREDIT. I have a problem when our gold standard of HS assessment was not even designed for grades 9-12.

@jim_again @edudissenter 2/2 The idea is that all students take a more standardized curriculum and after they take the GCSEs they move to either A-Levels (AP Exams) or they focus on vocational/technical qualifications. We don’t need to copy their entire system, but there’s a lot we could learn.

Imagine standardized exit exams for each high school subject. This is what England does. Everyone knows whether or not the student learned. Contrast with our high school diplomas.

@stepvision34 @edudissenter Are you referring to STAAR EOCs? They only test 5 courses. They’re a joke compared to England’s examination system.

@edudissenter Texas does that. It's still a rubber stamp

@TeamYouTube @Ovhan You did not simplify anything. You're deliberately making it harder for us to find what we are looking for. Why are you making your platform unusable?

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@YouTube removed the search feature to sort by upload date :/ I can't remember the last time they did something to make the platform better, it's just been worse and worse.

@YouTube @TeamYouTube has me about to throw my laptop at the wall! Who thought getting rid of "sort by upload date" was a good idea? I thought the point of an update was to make a site better-not unusable😡

@Wisdom_HQ (2/2) If other people are coming to the meeting I’d probably pick 4 so I could see everyone but wouldn’t be close to the main presenter/chair. If 4 was occupied or it was my first time in that space or with those people I’d probably just sit in 6.

@Wisdom_HQ (1/2) Ok, so it depends if other people are coming to the meeting and if this is a regular meeting or a one-off. If it’s just a one on one I would prefer 1 so I could see the door but I’d probably feel awkward walking behind him or around the table and would just sit in 9.

@Darmir100 @jeffreyhwalton @The_ACNA It’s crazy how Anglicans are left depending on screen shots when all ACNA had to do was open up the document center as they have in previous years. It’s also shameful that none of the business meetings were live-streamed. At least post the recordings.

@jeffreyhwalton @The_ACNA Thanks for sharing! Do you know if they’ll publish this online like with previous reports? Also, did they define “Decisions”?

More tidbits of interest from @The_ACNA Provincial Council congregational report. Note that the province in 2024 began tracking youth and teens as a subset of overall average Sunday attendance. #anglican

@jeffreyhwalton @The_ACNA Is there any way to view the Provincial Council meetings? Or even to read the reports? ACNA used to have document centers and live streams/videos of Provincial Councils since last year's Assembly everything seems locked down. This is different from every other serious denom.

Bishop Steve Breedlove speaking on @The_ACNA Common Life Commission, which exists to address overlapping jurisdictions, work towards regionalization, help mediation/training of diocesan leaders.

@john_seelke @erickalenze I understand what it is supposed to be about. I’m saying that the problem many teachers have with it is that for many students and parents it becomes about endless retakes until they get the grade they want. For admin it’s an easy way to keep kids from failing.

@mas_locklear @erickalenze Wait - grading for equity is just about the grade? Perhaps you don’t fully understand grading for equity.

I have been pushing back on this for decades. One of the dumbest 'innovations' we've ever fallen for. wsj.com/us-news/educat…

@4qmTeaching I really wish you had one for high school world history.

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