LETTER: Clark County School District puts lipstick on a pig

Earlier this summer, the Clark County School Board adopted grading reforms. Supporters telephone it an “equitable” strategy for each students. The reforms volition let students to revise assignments and retake tests and destruct immoderate behavioral factors specified arsenic attendance and information from grades.

Some person opposed the changes, saying they little standards for students. Why would immoderate accidental that? Oh, yeah, due to the fact that that’s precisely what it would do.

But territory Superintendent Jesus Jara applauds the reforms (Aug. 4 Review-Journal) saying that it is not astir lowering the standards, it’s astir “holding children accountable to show what they larn and know.” Uh, nary it’s not. It’s teaching them that existent satellite rules should not use to them. The connection being conveyed to students: Come to people erstwhile you want, crook successful lone the assignments that you consciousness similar turning successful and don’t interest astir grades due to the fact that we won’t.

I’ll archer you for whom this is not “equitable”: the achievers who bash each the close things; those who survey hard, hole for tests and person a consciousness of accomplishment erstwhile a bully people is rewarded.

No wonderment the Clark County School District is ever adjacent the bottommost of the database for world proficiency. It appears territory officials won’t beryllium blessed until they deed dormant last. Mr. Jara should beryllium terminated. He’s starring our students into an abyss of failure.