Grades Are Now “Racist” According To The Left

This week, “grades” joined “time,” “money,” and “capitalism” as White Supremacist concepts to the left, as the San Diego Unified School District has announced it’s changing grading policies to be more “anti-racist.” Fun! 

Of course, this comes after the summer of protests that came as a result of the George Floyd protests and the assorted unrest that plagued the country. Of course, society’s natural response to injustice is to make school easier for Black kids because of antiracism or something.

Removing the impact of tardiness or truancy on grades will not help these students; it will only teach them the wrong lessons that will hinder them once they get out into the real world. 

This is why so many lower-income students of ALL colors enter college woefully underprepared for the level of work they will receive there because the American Public School system has so coddled them. 

The new grading system will no longer count turning in work late and lousy behavior against the grades themselves, meaning that students in this district will learn that deadlines and behavior mean absolutely nothing – and will likely take those “lessons” into their lives outside of school.

As Breitbart reports, “Black students received D or F grades 20% of the time, higher than the districtwide average of 16% and more than double that of white students, who received Ds or Fs 7% of the time.”

This is yet another example of what I like to call the soft bigotry of low expectations. Well-meaning liberals are lowering standards in an attempt to “help” Black kids (who in their minds are nothing but perpetual victims of racism) who will only eventually be hindered by these things. 

These disparities exist for various reasons, but loosening the standards to “help” these students will do the exact opposite. We want ALL kids to succeed, and yes, want to give underperforming Black kids the same opportunity to do so as everyone else. However, loosening the standards will teach the same destructive lesson: their race is somehow a barrier to success and a deficiency that only well-meaning liberal intervention can solve.

The district means well, I’m sure, but it is failing these kids. This public school district is teaching the WRONG lesson, and it is the kids they’re failing.