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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First year teacher here so i cant compare to previous years but 40% of my 9th graders failed semester 1 of Honors English 9[/quote]

??? Are you in a low-income neighborhood? [/quote]

I am outside the Beltway.  That is all i will say[/quote]

That's unusually low. If it's in-line with your school's previous achievement, it's not you. If it's not, it's you. Be prepared to document how you did things.[/quote]

It was because of zeros.  We had 12 AT assignments and 12 PP assignments in Q2.  24 assignments.  The kids who failed on average had 18 missing assignments.  I even disobeyed the grading policy and had unlimited deadlines.  Nothing.  Even the [/quote]

I hope you reached out to your team lead or department head to assist you in managing this. You have terrible or even catastrophic stats and really need to figure out how to work through this if you expect to keep your job. I’m not a teacher but it seems like there have to be strategies beyond extending due dates to get kids to a passing level. [/quote]

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