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Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:25 pm**

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:59 pm**

That's kinda insane. But, it's middle school, so grades don't even matter.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:26 am**

Principal Susie Shepherd says it's not enough of an impact to change a student's overall grades.

What if it is enough to keep a kid from failing, then not being held back. The moral. If you have money you can buy your way out of anything. Insane indeed.

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Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:02 am**

Officials at the state Department of Public Instruction say exchanging grades for money teaches children the wrong lessons.

I disagree. It sounds like it's the one practical and realistic thing about how the world works that they may be learning.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:33 am**

Adding content to a thread about N.C. schools:

You did WHAT on your fieldtrip?

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:01 pm**

TPRJones wrote:
Officials at the state Department of Public Instruction say exchanging grades for money teaches children the wrong lessons.
I disagree. It sounds like it's the one practical and realistic thing about how the world works that they may be learning.

I agree with that in principle, but school isn't supposed to be the real world.... it is (among other things) a place to see if your brain is any good. If we can just buy grades, now, then we don't know if a graduate has a good brain, or just parents with money.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:08 pm**

Troy wrote:Adding content to a thread about N.C. schools:

You did WHAT on your fieldtrip?

"There is a lingering pain, a lingering bitterness, a lingering insecurity and a lingering sense of inhumanity since slavery," said President Kojo Nantambu. "Because that's still there, you want to be more sensitive than politically correct or historically correct."

What the fuck? Yeah, let's just ignore the past. Not like similar shit ever happens in the future.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:01 pm**

GORDON wrote:If we can just buy grades, now, then we don't know if a graduate has a good brain, or just parents with money.

You're joking, right?

When teachers are told that 90% of their students will be passing their class, regardless of if they can even sign their own name, then diplomas are hardly a way to tell who can think and who can't.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:19 pm**

Yeah I guess I am joking, the system is broken and never works so we might as well make som phat lewt

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:23 pm**

Bye bye

A North Carolina principal is retiring after school district leaders halted a cash-for-grades fundraiser she approved.

Wayne County Public Schools said Friday that Rosewood Middle School principal Susie Shepherd has gone on leave for the rest of the month and will retire at the beginning of December.

The Goldsboro middle school had planned to allow students to buy 20 test points for a $20 donation. Shepherd says she approved the idea after a parent advisory council presented it as a way to raise money for new technology for the school.

School district officials stopped the fundraiser this week, saying no students will get extra credit and any donations will be returned.

The district says a new principal is expected to be named next week.

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:11 pm**

She got cashiered because of the parental advisory council? What the hell?

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:28 pm**

I still think it was an obviously bad decision, and that's what got her shitcanned.

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