Once, perhaps 4-5 years ago, I received a call from my sons high school math teacher. The teacher was pleased to tell me that my son was receiving a "C" in his class.Despite knowing that my son has had great difficulty in math since Junior High school, I exploded on this teacher asking by what measure he considers a "C" good enough to call home about. Needless to say my son received a private tutor within a few days, the teacher never called my home again, and I eventually enrolled him in self-paced on-line high school (ended up graduating with a 3.7 GPA - still not so great with math but functional).

As a veteran public school teacher, I have witnessed the "dumbing down" of our nation's children at an alarming rate. I was told by my principal that I should never tell a child that he/she had the wrong answer. For example, if a child answered 5 to the question, what is 2+2, I could say only, "you're getting close or try again." I finally couldn't take what was happening and left a job that I had loved for many years. If you have children in the public schools, get them out now.

OMG. I scanned this earlier today and dismissed it as one of those parodies that are going around.

This time I tracked it back to the original paper and it's not. Clearly the policy was put in place by people who can't do math so that other people who can't do math can succeed too!

More or less harmful/dangerous than the "educator" who told us 24 years ago that it's "wrong and unfair to pin a child down to only one correct answer on a math problem."?
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They're doing this in China, India and Russia, right?

Parents don't rise up, because they have been told over and over, until they believe it, that schools know best. Stand back, support the programs, vote for the levies, and they will take care of everything.
Parents really do doubt that they know best what their child needs. I can't believe it has come to this, but it has, so if the child gets a C, that is great, they do not question what they did to earn it, or what they did not learn academically. This government driven dumbing down began 25 years ago, and parents did nto wake up, and when some did, they were exposed to the delphi technique into going along.

I couldn't understand why my sons weren't doing better in school. I talked to everyone, from teachers to shrinks. I almost failed to talk to the most important folk, my sons themselves. After much questioning and discussion, I discovered the problem -- they were bored. I challenged them by setting up projects for them to do and they would do comparison grading for their school projects. The kids improved but the school didn't grade very well. The "C" problem probably works because the parents aren't paying attention. If ever there was a program that got parents up in arms, this would be it -- but it doesn't seem to matter all that much to them.

I finally gave up teaching when most of my college freshman students were functionally illiterate. It's difficult to teach physics or astronomy to students that That can barely read or construct an intelligible sentence.

Government indoctrination centers. That's all public schools are

After some google digging I found that several scales exist in this system, not just the one that hands out C's for doing nothing. Nonetheless, They are making it easier to get an A and it lets each teacher choose a scale. Essentially a teacher can choose to give a C to a student who does nothing. Why give out grades at all at this point?

Even more importantly, grades aren't the best motivator for learning. Children have plenty of motivation to learn if we let them take on the responsibility of their own education, given adequate resources. In the end we can't force them to put anything inside their brain but the consequences of not learning are more than enough to ensure that they prepare themselves for life.

Interesting thought! Nothing goes in and no harm done...antilectually speaking that is.
Maybe...just maybe, at some point they can be fed the truth...especially after they see how it all spectacularly failed!

Makes me wonder...would one of these school officials consent to having open heart surgery performed by a doctor who graduated from one of their schools with an A- for only getting 8 questions right out of 10?

It's been a hard long road for regressivism but if all children are given Cs in this way then a major milstone of their equality and fairness schemes will finally be achieved.
What they have planned after this will shock you.

A couple years ago we had a district resource teacher ask our faculty "what would it take for a student to earn a zero" I replied "when they do zero work" clearly not expecting this answer she continued to share her great insight into student grades and future changes that she believed will happen. Well it looks like they have changed in Cali.

Been going on for years. Not news to me. This is how the schools get federal money.