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[quote=Anonymous]Coming in humility, thinking my family made a colossal mistake enrolling DS in J-R (DCPS) and not pursuing private school options when we moved to DC two years ago. Wondering if we need to make a move into privates soon for his elementary-aged younger sibling.

DCPS still has their extremely lax Covid-era grading policy. Highlights:
- The lowest F a student can get is a 63% in the grade book. (Student fails test by getting 40 questions out of 100 correct? 63% This doesn't really impact our kid, but noting it for context)
- Even if a student doesn't submit an assignment, it's 50% in the grade book. Submitting *nothing* = 50%
- This is the part that's killing us: a student can hand things in at *any point* in the quarter and a teacher must accept it, even if the class moved on from the unit eight weeks ago.

This last part has exacerbated his "lazy smart kid" tendencies. His teachers hate the policy, as they say this procrastination is very common and they get an onslaught of late work at the end of each term. I hate it. Everyone hates it but the kids.

Is this just the world now and the bar is just this low? Are privates are doing the same (I highly doubt it...)? Please share your middle & high school's "late work" policies and any relevant info about the grading policy.

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