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[quote=Anonymous]I haven’t heard of this at any privates we’ve been at, but it makes a lot of sense. Hear me out. At our private, privileged kids whose parents went to prep schools or elite colleges know how to work the system. Get a bad grade? Go in to the teacher and say “how can I improve my grade?”. Often, teacher offers an additional assignment or extra credit work. Overwhelmed by travel sports? Parents will often ask ahead for extensions on behalf of the kid. However, if you’re a first generation private school family or from abroad or a stricter school, you probably have NO idea that you can work the system like this. I think making the secret behind-the-scenes system of grading/assignments/teacher relations public is what makes this “equity”. It’s exposing a shadow system of teacher-student interaction and making it available to all students. Kind of brilliant![/quote]
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