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[quote=Anonymous]Agree the retake policy is an abrupt change.  As others have noted, the prior rule officially allowed retakes without a grade penalty.

I will say that not all teachers appear to understand the new policy correctly.  My kid brought home a summary of the new policy from one teacher that incorrectly described the grade penalty as 30 percent for late work.

I also expect that not all teachers will apply the new policy in a fair way.  Last year, my kid had a teacher who capped grades for any retake at 86.  This was clearly a misuse of the old policy, which only was supposed to apply the 86 grade cap for late work that was unexcused.  But to add insult to injury, the teacher would routinely give tests that the entire class would fail.  So even if my kid scored an 86 on the retake, they still had to offset it with grades in the 90s to bring their grade up to an A-.

I was so relieved my kid was done with that teacher, and am even more glad about it under this new system.  A ceiling of a 76 for retakes under a teacher who routinely fails the entire class would be impossible to overcome.
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