Monday, January 24, 2011

Grading Parents Again

Katie Allison Granju writes about yet another proposal to grade parents on Strollerderby.

(See also Grading for Learning.)

3 comments:

  1. That's right! If we blame the PARENTS when things go wrong, there is no way to substantiate when the schools are doing a crappy job.

    This is a brilliant piece of work. Guess I can infer from this idea that blaming bad test scores and the like on socioeconomics or RACE is going out of vogue? Let's hope so.

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  2. Don't count on it, Happy Elf Mom. Blaming will always be a popular strategy. It gives people an outlet for their pent-up hostility, and it's so much easier than actually solving the problem.

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  3. Something tells me that FedUpMom will have report cards of her own for teachers and principals if this proposal is ever adopted. Bring it on!

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