Title Also Applies to the ASUO
Chuck Slothtower talks about “A complicted, expensive, rubric-ridden farce”. Of all the things he could finally be recognizing, it is the CIM.
Sure, I have issues with the CIM (Certificate of Initial Mastery). I think it’s bullshit, but just as much bullshit as anything else they put upon high schoolers in effort to make education worthwhile. The CIM falls into the same hole as everything else in high school curriculum: some people don’t want to go to college, and that is a perfectly acceptable path to choose.
Chuck’s argument is right on track, and is a vailant attempt to right the wrongs of one Ailee Slater: “The CIM is a solution in search of a problem. Long ago, teachers invented these things called ‘grades’… students who did well enough earned a ‘diploma’…An even simpler way to deal with grade inflation would be to grade tougher and make assignments more difficult.”
Sure, but that would make things a lot harder for the kids who come to class drunk after lunch. Like I did. Suckers.
