She passed high school math with A’s and B’s. In college, she had to start over.

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Anonymous wrote:These quotes stood out to me:

"we were granted so many opportunities to redo exams and homework"

and

"Do you know why you were given so many opportunities?

I’m sure it’s because they wanted us to not have F’s and D’s on our transcripts. It was just wanting us to be able to move on to the next grade. It never really was to hold us accountable. Instead of being like, hey, you only get one retake, it was just, you can retake it as many times as you like, to get a grade that you’re comfortable with."

wtf? how is this helping anyone? why are these kids getting compared to other kids who get zero chances to retake, much less unlimited, until they get the score they want?

Zero retakes is also a terrible system, pedagogically. The purpose of a school is not to evaluate once, but to teach. Retakes unto mastery is the way to do it. Public schools that offer retakes without mastery are failing their students, but so are private schools that offer zero retakes and simply counsel out students who don’t get Bs the first time.

Absolutely wrong. “Retakes until mastery” is lipstick on a pig. There is a reason the traditional format of homework - study - test is traditional. because it is an effective way to learn.

Homework - study - fail the test - now I know it - move on to the next unit.

Is that how it works, in your mind?

Yes because if they fail all the tests then they repeat the class.

You mean they retake the class until they learn the material? But you just told me that retakes until mastery doesn’t work!