It turns out that in the pursuit of progressivism, the last thing leftists care about is academic excellence. That is likely because they must dumb down society to prepare it for their woke revolution. And because math is racist, the San Francisco Unified School District decided that earning 41% should be equivalent to a C. This was on top of slashing attendance requirements and allowing students to retake tests.

However, because this was painfully asinine, school officials had no choice but to reverse course just ONE DAY after approving the new grading system, as they faced a humiliating amount of backlash.

According to the New York Post:

San Francisco school officials took a sudden U-turn Wednesday on an initiative that would have effectively let students skip homework, cut class, and re-take their exams.

Parents and politicians alike – including SF Mayor Daniel Lurie – trashed the experimental “Grading for Equity” initiative as soon as the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) unveiled it on Tuesday.

Things like class attendance and homework wouldn’t have affected a student’s final grade under the new system — instead, grades would have been left up to a final exam, which students would be allowed to redo, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

If leftists want kids to succeed, why don’t they want them to succeed? That is something they will never be able to answer, as they pathetically set them up for a system that will do them zero favors in life.

Under a similar system at the nearby San Leandro Unified School District – which SFUSD officials have praised – students need a score of just 80% to get an A, and a score of 41% earns them a C, according to The Voice of San Francisco.

The purpose of the alternative grading approach was to minimize the impact of challenges that disproportionately affect low-income students, such as traveling to school and finding time and space to do homework.

“Low-income” students have been a thing since the beginning of time, and they somehow always found a "time and space to do homework." So, not only was this a pathetic excuse, but that was the best justification they used to change the status quo drastically. And to claim that would set up the most vulnerable students for failure does not even begin to explain it.

Superintendent Maria Su was forced to put the plan on hold, but instead of acknowledging how foolish these plans were, she chose to criticize and slander the public.

“It’s clear there are a lot of questions, concerns, and misinformation with this proposal,” Superintendent Maria Su said in a statement to the Chronicle. “We want to make sure any changes benefit our students. I have decided not to pursue this strategy for next year to ensure we have time to meaningfully engage the community.”

If she wants “to make sure any changes benefit students,” why have they made zero changes to benefit students?

And LOL. Of course, she blames “misinformation” and not the fact that this was the stupidest thing in the history of things. No one can claim they care about the students when their sole intent is to set them up for failure.

The whole premise of this system is also deeply deranged, as one must accept the notion that economically disadvantaged students are too stupid to function. And given that that could not be further from the truth, school officials have proven how bigoted and deranged they truly are. Thus, in the pursuit of whatever dystopian reality the left tried with this one, they have proved themselves to be dumber than the system they wished to enforce on students, and the fact that these are the people in charge of our education system is a scandal in itself.

It’s unclear why children must always bear the burden of progressive social experiments, but they do, and that's something that will never be moral.

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