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[quote=Anonymous]Actually, it happens often that a student will have a C quarter 1 and then not even bother to do anything quarter 2. I have had kids ask me to "bump up" their D grade. When I discuss ways they can raise their grade to a C on their second quarter and still have a C on their transcript, they laugh me off and say they don't care about that. They just want to pass the class. Turns out a C on quarter 1 and an E on quarter 2 (even if they have a 0%) is a D for the semester. You are right that kids have always gamed the system. The problem is that we are making it easier for them to game the system. As more and more kids do it, they pull the rest down with them. They divert resources from kids trying to learn because the teachers are spending all their time trying to get a kid to work who has already decided they just won't do it. [/quote]
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