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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A 50 is an F[/quote]

If I can pick the assignments I don't want to do and know that they will receive a 50%, then I know that if I do certain assignments and earn a higher grade, it is easier for me to get to a 70%, a C- and passing grade. I can choose what I want to do and not do. I don't have to do the assignments I really don't want to do and I can still pass the class.

If not turning in work means a 0 then I cannot pick and choose what I want to do because even a perfect score on half of the work is a 50% and an F.

I taught at the College level. Every semester I had students ask me what they needed to do to earn a C. My class was required for their major or met a Gen Ed requirement but they didn't really want to take it. I always knew those students were going to fail because they were going to try and cherry pick what work they needed to do and that was going to lead to trouble. If I had to give those students 50% on assignments and tests that they did not take, they might have been able to get that C because the amount of work that they needed to do to get the C was significantly lessened.

It is a stupid policy. [/quote]

But we aren’t discussing college, are we? [/quote]

No, we are discussing a mindset towards education and life. The same mindset that leads to a kid in college, who is supposed to be motivated to receive an education, is driving kids in high school. Starting every kid at a 50% floor means that kids who are more interested in goofing off and slacking and trying to skate buy a pass. What the heck does that teach them and how is that going to track into their adult life? Are their jobs going to let them continue to pick and choose what they do and still keep their jobs? Are they going to be able to pick and choose what they do if they go to College?

The kids who are getting C's because of this type of a policy are the kids who everyone is pointing to in high school as needing ESSER funds because they did so badly last year. Guess what? These kids were struggling before but that was masked by this policy and the fact that Teachers could force them to turn in something in class so that they were a C student. Not because they were actually a C student but because of policies put in place that inflated their performance.

Why? Because we can't have kids not graduating because it looks bad. We can't have kids in remedial classes because they were failing because that looks bad. Instead we have MS moving to everyone is in Honors! And No one can score less then a 50%. All that tells me is I can't trust the statistics that FCPS puts out because I know Honors has been watered down so more kids can be in it and a lot of those C's are not really earned but given because of a false floor. [/quote]

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