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Guest Commentary June 5, 2002
Political Correctness at Our Schools
The Honorable Curt Weldon
In what can only be described as two perfect examples of why our education system is so desperately in need of the sweeping reforms instituted last fall, two schools demonstrated this week their need for extra credit to boost their Common-Sense grade.
Students at the Palm Beach County High School will certainly get their studying done early this week thanks to a recommended grading scale for an upcoming history exam. On this one-hundred question test, students are simply required to answer fifty questions correctly to earn an A on the test. Thirty-nine correct answers will get the students a B and Twenty-three will still yield a passing grade.
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Any school administration that permits its students to receive a passing grade with fifty percent is failing its students -- one that hands out an A for such futility is simply outrageous.
Playgrounds are no less immune to this feel-good, political correctness. Six 10-year-olds were disciplined when they were engaging in a game of "army and aliens," where the students used their fingers as pretend guns. When angry parents called the school to find out why the students were in trouble, the principal informed them that the students had violated the school's "zero-tolerance" policy.
While the recent education reforms may not remedy these outrageous examples of the all too prevalent "zero-thought" policy present in today's schools, the new education changes bring a renewed focus on higher expectations and greater local control that will help bring common-sense back to the education of our students.
Curt Weldon, a Republican, represents the 7th Congressional District of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives. The above commentary has been adapted from a weekly column Rep. Weldon issued the week of June 3, 2002. To contact him, Click Here.
The above column has been distributed by PoliticsOL.com.
