Every year we have the “Education Nation”….that is when millionaires get together and tell us all about the advances in education, all the new ideas and all the need for good education.  And every year it is nothing but talk….nothing gets done and educational programs get cut, both federal and state programs…..but yet it is the most important issue in every campaign….and then it is quickly forgotten once the election is over…….typical American problem solving.

But one school has found a creative way to see that students make good grades……..

(Newser) – Tennessee Virtual Academy, a for-profit, online public school heavily supported by state Republicans, has found a novel way of boosting student performance—just delete bad grades, reports News Channel 5 in Nashville. A leaked December email from the school’s VP appears to tell its middle-school teachers to erase some scores that don’t measure up. “If you have given an assignment and most of your students failed that assignment, then you need to take that grade out,” it reads.

“To me, this appears like it’s grade fixing,” said one Democratic state representative. Virginia-based parent company K12 is refusing to talk, but the TVA principal said the deletions were intended to “more accurately recognize students’ current progress.” But as the two-year-old school will receive $7.5 million in funding from the state this year, many Tennessee lawmakers are outraged. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that a House bill that proposed shutting the school altogether was killed yesterday; a second was passed by the House Education Subcommittee. It would allow the state to shutter a virtual school that records sub-standard student performance two years in a row. (Meanwhile, a Lehigh University student is suing over a bad grade.)

There you go…save money on educational programs and just gaming the grades…..sounds like a plan we Americans can embrace…….the easy way out!