When hear terms like "equal outcomes", "equity" or "fair share", think of these terms for the Marxism they represent. Government ghouls on the left prefer these terms because it empowers them.
When we supplant “equitable grading” for real grading, we are dumbing down our youth. When everyone gets a trophy regardless of merit, the idea of competition diminished. Without a meritocracy, we become a society of unaccomplished lemmings looking to Government for favors.
The Biden Presidency and his administration are perfect examples of mediocrity that is becoming a societal norm; when you are promoted based on gender identity and the color of your skin, not on your accomplishment or the content of your character.
There used to be a saying for this, but today it is probably racist; you've reached your "peter principle"; that members of a hierarchy are promoted until they reach the level at which they are no longer competent. This Presidency and the society they desire for us are evidence we have reached it.
The Slow Rise of America Mediocrity
In 1958, sociologist Michael Dunlop Young wrote a dystopian book called The Rise of Meritocracy. Young depicted a future where merit, defined as intellectual talent and achievement, will be the central organizing principle of society. Merit will replace previous divisions of social class, creating a world where the merited power-holding elite will oppress a less merited underclass.
The book popularized the term “meritocracy,” but the term was supposed to be negative.
As time went on, those who wanted a society based on performance and achievement adopted the word “meritocracy” and promoted it as a traditional value, while those who wanted a more equal society were against “meritocracy” because they thought it led to inequality.
In 2001, it disappointed Michael Dunlop Young that the term “meritocracy” entered the English language with no negative connotation. Young said, “It makes good sense to appoint individual people to their jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others.”
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Nomani explained, “This episode has emerged amid the school district’s new strategy of ‘equal outcomes for every student, without exception’.” In other words, if all of the students aren’t “commended” it violates their no exception policy. Nomani also mentioned that school administrators implemented an “equitable grading” policy that eliminates zeros, gives students a grade of 50 percent for just showing up, and assigns a cryptic code of “NTI” for assignments not turned in.
Nomani called the district’s new strategy a race to the bottom.
Except it’s not a race, it’s the slow rise of American mediocrity.
https://jpharoahdoss.medium.com/the-slow-rise-of-america-mediocrity-a6c128e697be
When we supplant “equitable grading” for real grading, we are dumbing down our youth. When everyone gets a trophy regardless of merit, the idea of competition diminished. Without a meritocracy, we become a society of unaccomplished lemmings looking to Government for favors.
The Biden Presidency and his administration are perfect examples of mediocrity that is becoming a societal norm; when you are promoted based on gender identity and the color of your skin, not on your accomplishment or the content of your character.
There used to be a saying for this, but today it is probably racist; you've reached your "peter principle"; that members of a hierarchy are promoted until they reach the level at which they are no longer competent. This Presidency and the society they desire for us are evidence we have reached it.
The Slow Rise of America Mediocrity
In 1958, sociologist Michael Dunlop Young wrote a dystopian book called The Rise of Meritocracy. Young depicted a future where merit, defined as intellectual talent and achievement, will be the central organizing principle of society. Merit will replace previous divisions of social class, creating a world where the merited power-holding elite will oppress a less merited underclass.
The book popularized the term “meritocracy,” but the term was supposed to be negative.
As time went on, those who wanted a society based on performance and achievement adopted the word “meritocracy” and promoted it as a traditional value, while those who wanted a more equal society were against “meritocracy” because they thought it led to inequality.
In 2001, it disappointed Michael Dunlop Young that the term “meritocracy” entered the English language with no negative connotation. Young said, “It makes good sense to appoint individual people to their jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others.”
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Nomani explained, “This episode has emerged amid the school district’s new strategy of ‘equal outcomes for every student, without exception’.” In other words, if all of the students aren’t “commended” it violates their no exception policy. Nomani also mentioned that school administrators implemented an “equitable grading” policy that eliminates zeros, gives students a grade of 50 percent for just showing up, and assigns a cryptic code of “NTI” for assignments not turned in.
Nomani called the district’s new strategy a race to the bottom.
Except it’s not a race, it’s the slow rise of American mediocrity.
https://jpharoahdoss.medium.com/the-slow-rise-of-america-mediocrity-a6c128e697be
