San Francisco’s ‘Grading for Equity’ guidelines allow class completion with failing final grade
The San Francisco public school district rolled out a new grading policy. This new policy allows students to complete their classes with a minimum score of 21%. Under traditional grading, this percentage would cause the student to get an “F”. “Grading for Equity” removes homework and weekly test scores from the final grade. There will be a final exam at the end of the semester that could be taken several times. The school district’s superintendent implemented these new guidelines without seeking board approval.
From The Post Millennial:
On Tuesday, the San Francisco public school district announced a new grading policy that will allow students to graduate classes with a score as low as 21 percent. The “Grading for Equity” method eliminates homework and weekly test scores from a student’s final semester grade.
Instead, there will be one test at the end of each semester to decide if a student has passed the class. The final exam can be retaken several times, The Voice San Francisco reported.
Maria Su, the Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, enacted the new guidelines without seeking approval from the board, according to the nonprofit. The changes will impact 10,000 students across 14 high schools in California’s Bay Area.
Students may submit assignments late, fail to attend class, or choose not to attend at all without consequence to their academic performance. As of current, receiving an A requires a minimum score of 90 percent, while a D is set at 61 percent. Under the new scale, a student can obtain an A with a score as low as 80 percent, typically a B- and a D with a score as low as 21 percent, which is otherwise known as an F.
Additional Reading:
Daviscourt, K. (2025, May 28). San Francisco students can graduate with FAILING grades under new ‘Grading for Equity’ guidelines. The Post Millennial. Link.
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The “Grading for Equity” system proposed by the San Francisco school district, which has since been abandoned due to backlash, would have removed homework and weekly test scores from student grades, focusing instead on summative assessments and final exams. Rumors and misinformation suggested that late assignments, tardiness, and absence would also have no impact on grades.
The removal of homework and weekly test scores nulls and voids whether the assignments were turned in late or not. It also nulls and voids the need for constant attendance.
A source article added that late assignments would have no impact and would be accepted instead of being rejected. The trend for “Grading for Equity” was to remove the consequences for not doing homework on time, for not meeting the standards for satisfactory homework completion, for not studying to meet traditional test or quiz standards, for not even having perfect attendance, etc. The emphasis was on the final exam, which could be taken repeatedly under the move.
The author of a source article based his story on a 25-page power-point presentation. The woman reported to have put this in action said that she did nothing to implement the policy.
The fact that it was proposed is what is concerning. As with other leftist initiatives, “probing attacks” like this are not the final attempt, but the beginning of a series of attempts made until it becomes reality.
Smoking in the boys room…
And it’s a wonder why the Department of Education is being shutdown. The DOE rejected my application to receive a Pell grant because they think I made too much money 2-3 fiscal years ago (even though 2 months ago I needed small dollar loans from family members to get by). I was happy to learn they were losing their jobs soon after that. But, anyway, I wonder if jobs and careers outside of California will be really hesitant to accept applications whose resumes Californian Public schools have touched.
This is not the Dep Ed.
This is a municipal school district.
Learn the difference between federal, state, county, and local jurisdictions.
This has nothing to do with Dep Ed beyond the fact that reduction in federal special needs education funding has lowered school resources to educate children with special needs while simultaneously increasing per student costs by eliminating the economy of scale benefits of having a federal program.
“This is not the Dep Ed.
This is a municipal school district.
Learn the difference between federal, state, county, and local jurisdictions.”
Yes it is. The Feds have had top down control over our country’s schools for a long time. No Child Left Behind Act is a great example of this. Though it did get replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), we’re still lagging behind other countries and recent graduates of public schools say that they didn’t learn enough to prepare for college or entering the workforce. And let’s not forget the pandemic, where schools were arbitrarily shut down by school districts in lockstep with social distancing (what a joke!!!) Mandates instituted by both Federal and state governments. It’s not Dep Ed you say? Yeah, right! Federal, state, county, local, whatever! It’s controlled by some kind of government and smaller jurisdictions do take their cues from higher jurisdictions.
As for the rest of what you said, you want to try and fix something that hasn’t worked as intended for awhile and a good portion of people in the US are not convinced that the public school system can be fixed. That is why people support things like school choice and less government control (regardless of jurisdiction) of schools.
Plus:
It has been a few years but I once dated a school bus driver in So Cal. She got this really plumb job of driving a “special needs” kid back and forth. Kid got his own specially designed one person bus with a special ramp, hold downs etc plus a space for a nurse. Her and the nurse wound go to the kids house and load him and his own roll around bed on the bus. The nurse would care for him all day at school and then they would transport him home. Take in mind this kid was TOTALLY non responsive, no eye movement NOTHING. The driver was trained to do all this, so on the days he went to school she was not allowed to do anything but sit around until he needed moved. The parents had sued saying he needed education just like every other kid and won. All this on the district and the taxpayers dime, so cry me a river about cutting bogus special needs funds.
You actually used the word “economy” in the same sentence as “federal program”. C’mon man, you know economy doesn’t matter when there are federal dollars to burn! When the Dept. of education goes away, the federal money will still be available FOR THE STATES TO USE as they see fit. And this isn’t about special needs students. It’s about passing each and every student regardless. They don’t even have to show up. If you want to reduce the costs of education, I recommend looking into the salaries of teachers’ union reps.
Former union member here, and you could elect not to join as you saw fit. However, and there’s always a however, if you didn’t join, they still took out what they referred to as “fair share”. Fair share was $1.00 a month less than joining and paying full dues. Not a member? No representation if you got your tit in a wringer, but they still kept deducting “fair share”.
Yeah, the union reps clean up pretty well.
On the other hand, when it’s a choice between getting screwed by management or screwed by the union, at least the union gives you a ‘taste’ of the loot.
Major Moonbat, you do an outstanding job of being a blithering idiot, hands down.
He puts in the effort.
But he doesn’t do the homework…
“…the economy of scale benefits of having a federal program.”
I must admit to being mystified how adding another layer(s) of bureaucracy and administrative overhead is an “economy of scale”.
The Educational Genocide continues unabated. Hold students to a zero standard, then complain that they have no chance in succeeding in the adult world without resorting to crime. If the academics standards are lowered, then teacher salaries should be lowered, commensurate with student performance.
Hack Stone is aware that he use several multi-syllable words in the above statement that students and faculty of the San Francisco School District may not comprehend, but he is confident that the Deplorable Garbage who frequent this website actually earned their High School diplomas.
I gots my deploma from Auntie Nan. That bitch take.care.of.m.e. I know my maf.
1000 grams in a kilo. $125 a gram X 1000 = $125,000 take away 20% for the slingers:
– $25,000
My man Barbeque’s cut
– $35,000
Legal fees
– $28,000
My end be $125,000 – 88,000 = $37,000
If these are your grading “standards”, you could effectively shut down the schools, raze the buildings, sell the land, and send everyone to Berkeley. Same result, billions saved.
Nah, Harvard.
Good point. Teach the little numbskulls to be happy Hamas-supporting anti-semites.
It’s Hahvaahd…
Things were a lot different when I started PS 156 grade school in 1951.All these teachers that dont teach
readin, writin and rythmatic should be sent to south american prisons.
And the dumbing down of America continues…unabated.
Saul Alinsky…Grins!
Aren’t colleges now having to teach remedial maff?
These kids are soon to learn a very hard lesson about life.
Colleges don’t mind. They get to charge morons $$$ tuition for sh*t that doesn’t even count toward a degree requirement yet– cha-ching, baby! Remedial everything!
That’s why we can’t have nice things, and they will never have nice things.
They even taught remedial math and remedial English to certain freshmen back in my day, 1964 at University of Utah. Anyone who scored poorly in those subjects on the university’s entrance exam on those subjects was required to take and pass those 1AX classes.
It is still the same, in spite of billions of dollars in spending increases on education since then. All the metrics the teacher’s union et al. use have improved; class sizes are smaller, teacher’s pay is larger, teachers also have assistants now, physical facilities are newer and nicer, etc.
I had to take remedial math at Utah State in 1980. Wasn’t my school’s fault, my math skills are minimal and I was a shit student. Just didn’t care. Bit me in the ass later.
Every now and again I check the class schedule of my local community College. Every semester there are approx. 30 sections of remedial English and a similar number for remedial math. Then there are a similar number of ESL (English as a Second Language) courses. The county I live in is a rich county and is reputed to have excellent schools.
We are living Idiocracy
It’s all good.
Students can graduate and move on to college since standards across all levels of education have been lowered for some time now.
It’s not like they have to be smart to attend “higher education” since they’ll likely be indoctrinated to love Marxism, socialism, and develop a deeper hatred for capitalism, America and its allies, anything resembling virtue or morals, and just be the same uneducated dipshit morons that colleges are churning out now.
As noted above, just more proof the Department of Education has been an abject failure and waste of funds over decades.
Military has a problem with college graduates who want to join but can’t qualify on the ASVAB due to lack of basic readin’, wrtitin’, ‘rithmatic, science, etc. know-how they should’ve learned in high school or junior high nowadays.
Given human nature, since the dullards will get the same result (passing to next grade) as the excellent student, the excellence will fade from existence. The result of that will be true equality of ignorance across the student body.
In short that is not education, it is pandering to stupidity, sloth and ignorance providing yet more people unable to take care of themselves.
Idocracy was NOT supposed to be a how to!
“Georgia IS in Florida…Dumbass!”
(Line from the movie “IDIOCRACY”
An understandable mistake. Having lived in northern Florida I must say it is difficult to tell where Florida ends and Georgia begins.
Same proggie BS, different form:
Just what the country needs: More high school graduates that are barely literate and can’t do simple arithmetic.
I had a math book about grade school math lessons back in the early ninteen hundreds and late eighteen hundreds and that was stuff for High Schools…
I am convinced that is why so many more jobs these days require a college degree; at least college graduates are (mostly) literate and can do simple arithmetic.
People’s Cube, comrade– guaranteed equality of outcome, everyone is winner!
https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/k-J2uTmAav7eoQ7t1RY8RXu9_1WOHOYrqVwduGE3oCTmSFUDjH2JFvNXfJlzUCnkjP1w3Jko-A=s160-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj
See also:
https://thepeoplescube.com/mother
https://atbashian.com/satire/
Under these standards, I could’ve been inducted into the National Honor Society. Back before they ruled it to be unfair to the rest of the class.
Some, or maybe a lot of us, could have been valedictorians using modern standards. Today, we would be given a participation trophy and a pizza party.
Nothing more than professional embarrassment. The purveyors of this concept should be drummed out of academia.
This is some Dark Woke bullshit.
Gen Z and Millenials largely can’t afford to have kids. So enrollment is way down. Leading to lower funding. Coupled with rising costs.
A budget shortfall forced them to invent ways to cuts costs. Closing schools is often blocked by parents and takes at least a year or two.
Their plan is cutting remedial programs because passing the kids to the next grade reduced the need for remedial classes.
They decided to reduce the need for remedial programs by keeping kids out of them.
Somehow this dumb idea was created to reduce cost and pass students by helping them keep up with their peers and not fail and be “left behind”. They argued doing so was equitable since low income student were more impacted by budget cuts.
What is the point of sending them to the next grade if they have not even proven basic comprehension.
Fortunately, parents learned about this before it was implanted and the plan has been scuttled.
Hold the kids back until they meet the proficiency requirements. Holding kids back will increase enrollment anyway.
WOW, decently written and thought out. No one got called names. Hell Trump wasn’t even called Hitler. You get a thumbs up !
And yet he is still wrong. But you are right, we should give him good marks for “works well with others”.
They created an educational self-licking lollipop. Keep the grade reports up to keep the federal dollars flowing, nevermind the fact that you’re producing idiots. Randi Weingarten approves.
You, too? Maybe it’s just that you young folks don’t have enough experience. I can remember having classmates who were “reading below grade level” back in the ’50s. I can remember a guy in basic training who, when we were filling out some paper work, asked me how to spell “roofer”, which was his civilian occupation.
How old are you? Have you ever left your house? “Social Promotion” has been around for well over half a century that I personally know of, it’s nothing new. Budgets have nothing to do with it.
I’m not sure if you meant “implemented” when you said “implanted”, but what the hell. Works better that way.
Though a figuratively implanted boot has often worked wonders.
San Fran Problem Solving sample:
If Brucie blows 37 guys and 41% have Monkey Pox, how many guys have Monkey Pox?
15.17% + 1 (Brucie).
Wrong!
Correct answer; You are a despicable homophobe! Monkey Pox is NOT a gay disease!
And you can’t say “monkey pox”. It’s rayciss.
Goldstar!
This crap starts in our teachers colleges,where they are graduating utter morons incapable of teaching anybody anything,because they are border-line retards with diplomas and a union. They celebrate incompetence and ignorance. Sadly the parents can’t help them because they were robbed of an education in the same schools. Getting rid of the DOE is a major step in correcting this BS.
Dumbest students in college.
Don’t forget the biggest lame point– they don’t get a zero (0%) on something for not doing it at all because that’d hurt their poor little feelings, they get a 50% instead. (A freebie on half the sh*t they didn’t do.) That’s how some dork could skip school and miss most if their wotk, then the throw a few decent assignments on top and pass the class. (Easier with 50s than 0s on the work they didn’t do.)
50% is half?
I’ve been getting screwed at the grocery
dummies teaching dummies
We can’t have students wasting time in class, we need to get the little darlings to the auditorium for this:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/05/29/california-bdsm-training-for-lgbtq-students-is-great-n3803252
Uummmm,,,Eeewww!!
Plan abandoned. For now.
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/05/29/san-francisco-to-delay-equity-grading-after-backlash-n2413503
Rust and commies never sleep.
Some proggy ideas are just too stupid and dysfunctional to put into practice, apparently in this case.
History disagrees.
The movie “Idiocracy” was supposed to have been a comedy, NOT a prophecy!
A few questions about this proposal.
First, if a student does not need to attend classes in order to gain a passing grade, is he/she/xem still entitled to the government provided breakfast and lunch, or is it like the military who do not reside in the barracks receiving compensation? Will the School District deposit that money on a debit card for them?
And if students do not need to attend class in order to graduate to the next grade, why do we need to maintain schools and the requisite number of teachers, school administrators, janitorial staff, fleets of school buses and cafeteria workers? This proposal essentially says that formal education is not a requirement for the youth to succeed?
Finally, if the School Districts think that minority students are not progressing as successfully as other demographics, have they looked into what the root cause of that outcome is? It can’t be for lack of funding, some of the highest money spent per student always seems to be in School districts with the worst academic performance. Why is that? Inquiring minds want to know.
I just watched an animated show directed at young children (my granddaughter was watching it) and it stated that African Americans have long fought for and currently fight for equal education opportunities. If this is really the case, why do they settle for BS educational systems in most of America’s inner cities and now this Grading for Equity crap when in reality it should be viewed as a slap in anyone’s face as a derogatory statement that their kids are stupid and not worthy of much more? Where are the two leading Demonrat goofballs AOC and Jasmie Crocket on this issue?
Careful, “Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem” and suggesting something different from the approved “woke” narrative got Bill Cosby jacked-up for his freaky sex life.
Heard these stats today:
-Harvard requires a 1500 SAT for admission.
-Of all African-Americans in the country, only about 1000 score that annually
-Harvard will accept a 900 SAT for “African Americans.
Someone is getting screwed. Now, I NEVER made a 1500 on an SAT anyway, so it ain’t me. However, the point is, what’s the point in Having any standards if you’re not going to use them?
Agreed.