EDITORIAL TAKING CHARGE SCHOOL BOARD MAKES THE RIGHT CHOICE ON STUDENT'S GRADE.AFTER trying to shirk shirk In Islam, idolatry and polytheism, both of which are regarded as heretical. The Qu'ran stresses that God does not share his powers with any partner (sharik) and warns that those who believe in idols will be harshly dealt with on the Day of Judgment. responsibility and dodge controversy, the Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board finally weighed in on the Taft High School grading dispute. What's more, it did the right thing. In a city where elected officials can't always be counted on to take a stand, let alone a principled prin·ci·pled adj. Based on, marked by, or manifesting principle: a principled decision; a highly principled person. one, this makes for a remarkable turn of events. But give credit to the school board; it did the right thing by taking on the case of Amanda (language) Amanda - A functional programming language derived mostly from Miranda with some small changes. Amanda was written by Dick Bruin and implemented on MS-DOS and NeXT. It is available as an interperator only. Wolin Wolin or Wollin (both: vô`lēn), island, 95 sq mi (246 sq km), off the coast of Pomerania, in the Baltic Sea, and belonging to Poland. Wolin is separated from the mainland by the Zalew Szczeciński (Stettiner Haff). and issuing its decision. Wolin, a previously straight-A student, claimed two teachers did her wrong by giving her B's. Her parents challenged the grades all the way up to the school board, the last avenue of internal appeal. (Although they now say they plan to take their challenge to court.) That's the way the process is set up to work, with the board as the ultimate decision-maker. And the board made what seems to be the fair call. The two teachers in question are widely considered among Taft's best and fairest. Absent any tangible evidence of discrimination, they deserve great flexibility in how they assign grades. Educating and grading are an art, not a science. And if a school's grading system is going to have any integrity, it must be subject to review, but not subject to revision whenever anyone's disappointed. |
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