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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There should be no retakes. If you don't study or bomb a test, a bad grade should be your consequence.

That's how it was in 2000 when I graduated from a HS in this area and that's how it should be now. A 4.0 or higher used to be impressive back then. Seeing the way things are in schools now with my kids, GPAs are pretty much a joke at most high schools. Retakes for tests, late work accepted without penalties, full credit given for attempts instead of credit for right answers, etc.

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A lot of research has been done in the past 23 years that suggests that allowing retakes makes for better student outcomes in terms of learning, motivation, and final exam scores. I am agnostic on whether or not teachers should allow retakes but I don't think allowing retakes is the problem. I think the big problems are 1) teachers are expected to deal with all behavioral issues *in* the classroom so they are spending all their time on that instead of teaching and 2) students who fail a class take it in summer school, which is online, which means they just cheat and are passed along without knowing the material. Also these days it's often really hard for a teacher to fail a kid in the first place.

I'd also like to blame iPads in the classroom, because often kids just open up Desmos and copy down the answers, but I'm not sure that is to blame. [/quote]

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