Texas school districts would no longer be allowed to mandate minimum grades for failing students under a “truth-in-grading ” law unanimously passed by the State Senate Monday. Controversies over such policies have flared up here and there in the last few years, but I’m not aware of any states banning the practice to-date.
“Teacher groups, who have called such policies the ‘ultimate grade inflation,’ are strongly supporting the Senate bill,” the Dallas Morning News reports. The Texas School Alliance, made up of large, urban districts is crying foul saying it usurps local control of schools.
I get the arguments that minimum passing grades provide a “safety net” for potential dropouts. Still, it’s hard to preach high expectations out of one side of your mouth and no failures out the other.
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