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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These posters obsessed with the 50% rule are misguided. There are dozens of far greater issues facing our schools including a lack of emphasise on academics.[/quote]

I think the people complaining about the 50% rule view that as interlinked with the lack of emphasis on academics......because how can you have a focus on academic excellence when a kid can get 50% for doing nothing? Those two things aren't compatible.[/quote]

We've talked this to death, but the 50% rule is only through the end of the quarter. If the child actually does nothing by the end of quarter, they take the 0. It's meant to give kids enough room to scramble back up if they try hard enough. We want that, considering we're talking about brains that are a decade from being fully developed. [/quote]

That is what's supposed to happen in theory, but I promise you, in practice, it stays a 50% through to the final grade in all instances I've seen it with my kids.[/quote]

Kids that are getting 50% clearly don't care about school and there isn't a lot the county can do to change it. So this just doesn't seem like a pressing issue.[/quote]

Or, maybe the do care and their teachers, schools, and parents failed to help them early on with the bad curriculum and now they struggle with basic things like reading, math and writing which makes it impossible to keep up in HS.[/quote]

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