How Passing Grades Are Formulated

As I read this Dilbert cartoon this morning, I thought of school grades.  When too many students were failing regents, raw passing scores were lowered.  When kids failed classes, they were able to make them up by doing online assignments (or usually by having others do the assignments for them) or by showing up for two weeks at some Mickey Mouse class.  I even heard of an AP who let kids sign in for a gym class and then go to a room to have a teacher do the online assignment for with them.  It was reported to me that the same AP miraculously got failing grades on Friday to be passing grades on Monday.

The school is highly rated because it keeps graduation rates high.  It doesn't matter that kids are graduating knowing nothing and prepared for nothing and expect the world to keep operating in the same manner.

How The AP Became A Success

This is what you do when you know nothing and have zero education or experience and become boss.

Bet everyone knows an AP or Principal in this category.  I can think of a few but one really stands out.

Dilbert Does It Again

Scott Adams must be portraying a Packemin graduate.  The prospective employee expects a paycheck with no work and no attendance requirement, exactly the way he got his high school diploma,  

Okay, no fair picking on Packemin.  Kids got diplomas requiring no work all over the city.

Fine

When my former AP had a problem with something, we would meet, he would babble, I would say fine but he kept going and going. He knew I thought he was full of crap but fine was the only word I ever used.  He wanted an argument and I refused to give him one.

I know he was never happy at the end of a meeting.  I, on the other hand left feeling fine.  Scott Adams knows plenty of bosses like him to be able to put this in a cartoon.

Department Conference

This reminded me of the department conferences I used to attend.

Nothing the AP said made sense.  He never lacked for words either.

Dilbert Does It Again

Ever wonder how some of those AP's become APs?  You know, the ones who never taught the subject they are put in charge of or the ones with 2 years experience, still wet behind the ears?
Well. leave it to Dilbert to explain how they got their jobs.

Birth of School Administrator

How else can the people in charge be explained?  Or, more importantly, the people that put the people in charge?  

VAM

Dilbert nailed this one.