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[quote=Anonymous]I can see it both ways.  On the one hand you don’t want to allow kids to game the system and only turn in a couple of assignments the whole quarter and make a D because of the 50% thing.  On the other hand, these are not kids who are trying for a college application, at least not for awhile.  And as teens they don’t truly understand how not having a high school diploma will cripple them in the US job market. They’ll be at a crossroads soon where with a high school diploma they might settle down and turn things around.  Without a diploma their options will be so few, they’ll be more likely to head down negative paths.

The temptation is to say, when they’re more mature and ready, they’ll have learned their lesson about not trying and get their GED.  But will they?  Will most of them?  Unlikely, and the paths they start heading down will become set.  I can see the school’s standpoint of trying everything they can to give kids shots at a better life before those choices disappear.  Yeah, they’re encouraging gaming.  But for every kid who games the system, there is a kid who realizes the hole isn’t so deep it’s impossible and turns things around enough to accomplish a diploma.  And that’s who they’re trying to help.
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