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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So everybody was failing the math exams, so their solution is to get rid of the exams? Brilliant!

I understood getting rid of the MS exams. This, I don't get. So when are kids supposed to learn how to take long exams and cumulative finals? When they get a 2 on the AP? When they bomb them in college and spoil their med school admissions?

American students would be left helpless if they ever had to take the kind of high school exit exams they have in other countries, like the Abitur or the Baccalaureat or Matura or A-levels.  [/quote]

+1.

Failing Math finals became embarrassing only when it happened to students in W schools who were getting As in the quarters.  The reason they were getting As was because of grade inflation and being allowed to redo the same assignments and same tests multiple times so that they could get an A.  These kids were cheating and getting away with it. Unless WaPo did an expose, the grades of final exams was not something anyone gave a thought to.

The underperforming minorities in poor schools were not getting straight As in the two quarters. They probably did not even know how to game the system. Anyhow, when they bombed in the finals it did not make any difference because they were also bombing in the two quarters.

But the A students failing in Finals was too shady to let go by the WaPo reporter. So, now they are doing away with it, so that the grade inflation of the W schools will continue.[/quote]

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