{"id":34328,"date":"2009-12-23T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:30:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:30:29","slug":"rush_s_morning_update_buy_a_grade_original_airdate_november_16_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/12\/23\/rush_s_morning_update_buy_a_grade_original_airdate_november_16_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush\u2019s Morning Update: Buy A Grade\r\n\r\nOriginal Airdate: November 16, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rush\u2019s Morning Update: Buy A Grade<\/strong><\/line>Original Airdate: November 16, 2009<\/strong><\/strong><\/line><\/line>Watch It!<\/strong> <\/strong>Download Morning Update Video in QuickTime<\/a><\/line>Listen to It!<\/strong> Windows Media Player<\/strong><\/a>|RealPlayer<\/strong><\/a> <\/line><\/p>\n

You know, folks,sometimes innovation just isn\u2019t appreciated.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro, North Carolina decided that a “chocolate sale” would be a good fundraiser. It flopped. So this year, the parent advisory council came up with a bold, innovative approach. For a mere $20, the school would sell 20 points– which students could apply toward two test grades.<\/p>\n

In some cases, those extra points would allow a student who got a “B” on a test, to get an “A.” For others, the points could have been the “make-or-break”;the deciding factor between a passing or failing test grade.<\/p>\n

The principal of the school (appropriately, a chick), Susie Shepherd, signed off on the idea. She said the bought-and-paid-for points would not be enough to have any real impact on the students\u2019 overall grades,so no problem-o, amigos! (A little Bob Griese lingo there for you.)<\/p>\n

Sadly, state officials at North Carolina\u2019s Department of Public Instruction did not see the visionary promise of this great idea. They said exchanging grades for money is a wrong lesson for children to learn. Then county administrators got into the act,and killed the idea<\/p>\n

So no extra credit will be awarded after all,and all donated money will be returned. Thus, innovation in school gradingdied…which reallyis a shame, folks, because in many public schools– especially in blue states– the “buy-a-grade” concept might be the closest thing to capitalism that students will ever be exposed to in the classroom. It really is too bad. <\/p>\n

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