{"id":1188011,"date":"2022-01-04T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188011"},"modified":"2022-01-04T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:50:43","slug":"virginia-teachers-fight-woke-plan-to-kill-extra-credit-homework-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-teachers-fight-woke-plan-to-kill-extra-credit-homework-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Teachers Fight Woke Plan To Kill Extra Credit, Homework Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-teachers-fight-woke-plan-to-kill-extra-credit-homework-grades%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188011&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Educators warn that push for &#8216;equity&#8217; will harm the most disadvantaged students<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ashburn-736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ashburn-e1602014117790.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ashburn-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ashburn-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ashburn-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAshburn, Va., classroom \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 January 4, 2022 4:32 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Teachers at a Virginia high school are pushing back against a plan to eliminate homework grades and extra credit in order to create a more &#8220;equitable&#8221; grading system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Arlington Public Schools <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/go.boarddocs.com\/vsba\/arlington\/Board.nsf\/files\/C7XLVB557627\/$file\/101421%20School%20Board%20Work%20Session%20-%20Grading%20%26%20Homework.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>in October<\/span><\/a><span> proposed the new system, which would also end penalties for late homework assignments. In a letter to the Arlington School Board and superintendent, teachers at Wakefield High School said the district\u2019s plan would hurt the very children it intends to help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The changes, if implemented, will also result in the decline of high expectations and rigor in the classroom across all [district] high schools,&#8221; the teachers said in the letter, which was first<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/crisis-in-the-classrooms\/va-teachers-push-back-on-equity-proposal-to-abolish-some-grades-late-homework-penalties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> by WJLA. Not holding students accountable, the teachers said, will give the &#8220;most needy students reduced probability of preparing for and realizing post-secondary opportunities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The proposed framework would transform a system district officials claim &#8220;leads to biased grades&#8221; and &#8220;penalizes&#8221; students with &#8220;fewer resources.&#8221; But according to the Wakefield teachers, the district\u2019s remote learning experience proves that students will not complete assignments without grades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Under the proposed guidelines, students are allowed unlimited redos on assignments, which the district claims will &#8220;increase rigor&#8221; by motivating students to &#8220;achieve mastery rather than accept failure.&#8221; At least three elementary and middle schools in the district have implemented similar plans, according to documents the school district shared with the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>Arlington Public Schools officials are in &#8220;the early stages&#8221; of updating grading rubrics for districtwide use, spokesman Frank Bellavia told the <\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span>. Staffers will provide feedback and bring revised policies to the Arlington School Board, which is scheduled to act on the recommendations in May, Bellavia said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If approved, the district will work over the summer to create implementation plans for the 2022-2023 school year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An Arlington School Board <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/go.boarddocs.com\/vsba\/arlington\/Board.nsf\/files\/C7XLVB557627\/$file\/101421%20School%20Board%20Work%20Session%20-%20Grading%20%26%20Homework.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>presentation<\/span><\/a><span> shows that the district\u2019s proposed grading framework was inspired by &#8220;antiracist&#8221; advocate Joe Feldman\u2019s book <\/span><i><span>Grading for Equity. <\/span><\/i><span>Feldman, the CEO of a progressive education consulting firm, has said he <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/crescendoedgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Equitable-grading-Leadership-Mag_NovDec.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>believes<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;standard grading practices &#8220;reward students who have privilege and punish those who don\u2019t.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Educators warn that push for &#8216;equity&#8217; will harm the most disadvantaged students  Ashburn, Va., classroom \/ Getty Images  Alex Nester \u2022 January 4, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}