‘What if we blew all of it up?’ Self-described ‘educator’ proposes changing capitalistic relics like grades, assessments, and topics with ‘an antiracist system’

Based on her Twitter bio, Shane Safir is an “educator, mother, aspiring antiracist, working each day towards fairness and justice.”

And if we had been you, we’d preserve your children far, far-off from her. As a result of her instructional philosophy leaves, properly, the whole lot to be desired:

Eradicate D’s and F’s. If it’s important to have grades, go ABC/I (Incomplete) so children could make up any courses they struggled in. D appears like defeat and F indicators failure. Get failure out of the classroom!

— Shane Safir (@ShaneSafir) December 18, 2020

What if we blew all of it up?
– grades
– homework
– report playing cards
– assessments
– topic areas
– sorting & rating
What would an antiracist system constructed from the CHILD up (not the coverage room down) and round our most marginalized learners seem like? @DenaSimmons @chrisemdin

— Shane Safir (@ShaneSafir) December 21, 2020

Or — and listen to us out — what if we didn’t try this?

What if we blew up your mother? https://t.co/yVh1SKKZDW

— James Lindsay, Bd.E., respect my diploma (@ConceptualJames) December 22, 2020

Nonetheless a greater concept than something Shane has proposed.

Wow, y’all, the trolls got here out THICK for this one! Fascinating! https://t.co/wAE9K36xaq

— Shane Safir (@ShaneSafir) December 22, 2020

Is it being a troll to level out that Safir is insane, although?

They’re doing that in BC. It is watering down the training system. Competitors is a part of the human situation. If left to progressives, there will likely be no competent human beings left to take the roles that had been as soon as competed for. 1/2

— J Delbert Tarkanian (@themudtark2000) December 22, 2020

Competitors will not be inherent to the human situation. It’s a core worth of capitalism & Western epistemology, each constructed methods of working and viewing the world. And with all due respect, the concept grades and take a look at scores result in “competent human beings” is deeply flawed. https://t.co/EANu14Ecuj

— Shane Safir (@ShaneSafir) December 22, 2020

That’s plenty of phrases simply to say “I’m insane,” Shane.

Mates. The purpose is to not NOT assess competency or to domesticate a era of incompetent people. The purpose is that our present evaluation devices are literally insufficient at assessing competence! Efficiency-based assessments w/ public defenses of studying a lot better.

— Shane Safir (@ShaneSafir) December 22, 2020

We’re not your mates, girl.

Ah sure, the delicate bigotry of low expectations https://t.co/JQpWuC4fYn

— Jen Monroe 🗽🌐 🎧 🦥 (@jenniferm_q) December 22, 2020

China’s going to eat our lunch not due to commerce, diplomatic affect, and even brute pressure. It’ll be as a result of whereas they’re coaching a era of children within the highest echelons of STEM and our youngsters gained’t be taught primary arithmetic, not to mention calculus and pc science. https://t.co/pwe3o5dkVH

— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) December 22, 2020

Sure, let’s take away all measurements of benefit. That method we are able to get rid of all social and financial mobility.

The present aristocracy can preserve their positions for themselves and their descendants. Sounds nice.

And we are able to simply give everybody participation awards.

— Tony Byergo (@TonyByergo) December 22, 2020

We would find yourself marginalizing actually *EVERYONE*. If training needs to attain excellence, it has to measure it in some way. I am all for becoming a toddler’s studying to their particular wants & skills, however we should prioritize excellence, not mire ourselves in mediocrity.

— Paul Roundy (@PaulRoundy1) December 22, 2020

One thing to ponder earlier than we go:

Humorous how all the novel proposals to remodel training— you recognize, for the youngsters— additionally are inclined to imply quite a bit much less work or sensible accountability for academics https://t.co/GD6WHjILLk

— Griswold Household Trip (@HashtagGriswold) December 22, 2020

Yeah, bizarre.

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