Source: Yahoo News
Credits: Faux News
Dated: 2010-07-31

Emilie says: Huh? They don't accept anything less than average means that about half of everything is unacceptable. Now they are going to raise the average so that nobody gets below the average anymore. Maybe they should have an arithmetic test before appointing people to be president of school districts. TOEFL might be a good idea too. At least it seems that English is not Mark Warner's native language and he needs more practice before being interviewed or he will make the district sound stupid.

School will no longer give out any D's to raise school standards

Interview with Mark Warner, School Board President of the Mount Olive School District

"What do you have against D's?"

"Well I don't personally have anything against D's except that it's unacceptable. We don't accept as a society anything below average, and why would we allow students to get grades for graduation if they are performing below average."

"So explain to us how it works, cause we understand that in your school district 384 students a month ago in June ended the school year with a D as a final grade. What happens to those 384 students come September?"

"First of all I want to apologise to those students, cause we allowed it to happen, and it shouldn't have happened in the first place. And what will happen will be a greater support network for anyone receiving a grade lower than 70%. We have tutoring, we have support groups, we have even to the extent that we will have extended an after nightschool for students in that situation."

"So basically the way you plan to combat it is just help them not get a D, help them do better, but here's why some parents argue with your philosophy here, they say that C is an average. C is considered an average grade. So now you are saying that if anybody is below average they automatically fail."

"But that is what we are supposed to be doing in real life. Real life does not accept anything less than average. Be it job performances. Be it job. What you do on the job. Are not accepted by employers. So why would we allow children to graduate and go into the real world and be below average. I can't understand it."

Emilie says: Neither can I