When does 2 + 2 = 5?
When you’re taking the state math test.
Despite promises that the exams — which determine whether students advance to the next grade — would not be dumbed down this year, students got “partial credit” for wrong answers after failing to correctly add, subtract, multiply and divide. Some got credit for no answer at all.
For this reason alone (and there are many more presented in the article), local schools need to maintain control over which students advance to the next grade level. As this “partial-credit” mentality gets more prevalent, it’s only a matter of time before our gifted students start getting credit for unacceptable work.
In the real world, you don’t get partial credit. The outcome is either right or wrong- there’s no middle ground.
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