Destroy Grading ? Yeah Baby! By James Reed

From America, of course, but you can bet your pet gold fish that our crazy universities will be soon doing the same to catch up in the theatre of the absurd stakes. Yes, grading is racist. Everything is racist, including the very idea of the university, so close them down, after defunding.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-04-19-sjw-asu-students-color-write-white-supremacy.html

“In order to reinforce the “positive racial identity” of black students, an academic at Arizona State University (ASU) has written a book that calls on schools to “destroy grading.”

Grading students’ work, especially in the area of writing, is a form of “white supremacy” that must be abolished in order for black students to “achieve” at the same level as white students.

Asao Inoue, who works as associate dean for Academic Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion within the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, contends that merit should not be a consideration when dealing with black students’ academic performance. “Anti-racism,” he says, simply does not allow for it.

In his book Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, Inoue attempts to make the case that a student’s efforts, rather than actual performance, are what should be graded.

If it were up to Inoue, final course grades would be determined “purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing.”

“While the qualities of student writing is [sic] still at the center of the classroom and feedback, it has no bearing on the course grade,” Inoue writes.

“Why take our judgments of quality out of the tabulation of course grades and progress in a course? Because all grading and assessment exist within systems that uphold singular, dominant standards that are racist, and White supremacist when used uniformly.”

“Single, dominant” standards for grading are racist “white supremacy”

Inoue subscribes to a “social justice agenda” that disallows inequality based on performance. If one student performs poorly and the other one exceptionally, the exceptional student could end up getting a lower grade than the poor student based on labor involved.

For instance, if the exceptional student completed A+ work in an hour and the poor student completed D+ work in four hours, the D+ student may end up receiving the higher grade because he worked harder.

To grade based on a performance standard is “racist,” according to Inoue, because often it is black and brown students who perform poorly and end up getting bad grades. To equal things out, black and brown students need to be rewarded based on perceived effort.

“Grading, because it requires a single, dominant standard, is a racist and White supremacist practice,” Inoue says.

Inoue’s 358-page book outlines how his labor-based grading system helps to promote “antiracist writing assessment ecologies” in the classroom. These “curricular changes” are needed, he says, to “help our Black students develop positive racial identity.”

In addition, Inoue wants to “destroy the White habits of language that make all the standards of language in classrooms, not to ignore them but to stop thinking they are THE keys to success and good communication, critical thinking, etc.”

Getting good grades based on performance, Inoue further tweeted about his plan, is just “one way” among “many” to deliver rewards to students. Black and brown students who are unable to perform still need good grades as well, and Inoue regularly delivers them in his classroom.

“Get a degree in engineering and the plane you design will be ‘safe enough’ because of your efforts,” joked one Campus Reform commenter about the endgame of this insanity.

“Best of all, any lawsuits from the resulting crash will be barred because you tried really hard to build the plane. You did not design and build it ‘correctly’ because that is a white supremacist’s concept which has no place in this world. The bosses came around and saw you working really hard on the plane and gave you bonuses on your efforts alone. Now you are the boss because it was racist for you not to be the boss and especially prejudicial to require any qualifications other than trying hard.”

https://campusinsanity.com/2021-03-21-oregon-trying-abolish-math-racist.html

“The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) has launched a new instruction program for public school teachers throughout the state that claims the subject of mathematics is “racist” and promotes “white supremacy.”

The department sent out an online pamphlet called, “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” that contains a section entitled, “Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.” In it, teachers are urged to reimagine the nature of math to make it more “inclusive” for black and brown people who apparently have trouble understanding it.

Students should not necessarily be told that technically wrong answers in math are existentially “wrong,” the pamphlet suggests. Claiming that an answer to a math question is either right or wrong is inherently “racist,” it goes on to conclude, instructing teachers about ways to abolish this type of “white supremacist” thinking from the classroom.

“While supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” the pamphlet declares. “Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on [minority] students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics.”

In order to effectively dismantle “white supremacist” ideas like there being right and wrong answers in math, Oregon teachers are being told to closely examine their “actions, beliefs, and values around teaching mathematics.” Anything that might be “offensive” to students needs to be abolished.

A typical math class involves spending way too much time trying to achieve right answers, which the pamphlet says is “racist.” Students having to individually come up with these right answers is also “racist,” as math should be a group effort, according to the ODE.

“Often the emphasis is placed on learning math in the ‘real world,’ as if our classrooms are not a part of the real world,” the pamphlet further explains. “This reinforces notions of either / or thinking because math is only seen as useful when it is in a particular context.”

“However, this can result in using mathematics to uphold capitalist and imperialist ways of being and understandings of the world.”

Bill Gates helped fund anti-math curriculum for Oregon

As is often the case, the ODE links math, ideas of right and wrong, and traditional education to capitalism and imperialism, both of which it says are evil and embody “white supremacy.”

To make math less “racist,” there needs to be an anomalous middle ground where students are free to imagine whatever answers they feel fit the equation. In an “equal” world, there is no such thing as right or wrong answers, even in math, the ODE contends.

To help black and brown students achieve the same level of educational success as white students, the ODE is encouraging teachers to consider how they can reinvent math to “help solve problems affecting students’ communities,” as well as recognize “the ways that communities of color engage in mathematics and problem solving in their everyday lives.”

Public school teachers in Oregon are also being told to “challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”

“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,” the course reads. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate [sic] objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.”

Currently, the course is optional. Teachers who refuse it, however, could be subjected to “cancellation” and other forms of punishment designed to harm those who resist this attempted Marxist reprogramming.

“We cannot dismantle racism in a system that exploits people for private profit,” it contends. “If we want to dismantle racism, then we must build a movement for economic justice.”

As usual, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is behind the new curriculum, having given “generous financial support” to its creation.”

https://campusinsanity.com/2021-02-23-bill-gates-bankrolling-organization-saying-math-is-racist.html