Left-wing Lunacy

Just outside the nation's capital in Arlington County, Virginia, there's a revolution taking place in public education.  And not for the better. 

Bureaucrats in the Arlington public schools are pushing for radical changes to the grading system.  Here are some of the proposed changes:

• No penalties for late homework – because that leads to inaccurate grades as it reflects on student's behavior and not student achievement.
• No extra credit – extra credit leads to biased grades and penalizes students with fewer resources.
• Unlimited redoes and retakes on assignments.
• No grading for homework as mistakes are vital to learning and students are less likely to take risks when they fear they will be penalized for making a mistakes.

This is insane!  It won't help anyone achieve more.  It will simply lower standards for every student. 

Arlington County, Virginia, is solidly in the grip of the radical left.  Joe Biden won the county with 81% of the vote.  So, it's not surprising to learn that this radical policy is being proposed in the name of "equity." 

If you read our recent special report on critical race theory, you know that equity has nothing to do with equality. It's the one of the left's catchall buzzwords for their latest bizarre ideas.  Beijing's Communist Party bosses must be laughing their heads off.

The good news is that many Arlington public school teachers are angry.  They sent a letter saying that the proposed "equity" changes are letting students down by setting them up for failure in life. 

The year began with a rebellion of parents against leftist indoctrination.  I know from experience that there are many teachers who agree with those parents.  Now we are seeing more examples of teachers who refuse to accept the dumbing down of education in the name of equity. 

Hopefully, the new conservative government that is about to take over in Richmond will take action, and begin a new era of commonsense educational reform.

And while we're on the subject of left-wing lunacy, a Minnesota school board is making headlines for endorsing segregation and discrimination in the public schools.  The board voted unanimously to pay extra stipends to non-white teachers and to allow minority staff to work at sites with other "educators of color."

It's shocking how the progressive left's solution for racism and discrimination is more racism and discrimination.  But that's exactly what many proponents of critical race theory are demanding.

By the way, don't make the mistake of thinking that critical race theory is limited to just public education or that it doesn't affect you if you don't have children in the public schools.  It's infecting everything, even medicine.