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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a third grade teacher and I don’t offer retakes.[/quote]

I'm betting you are over 50, OP.

The idea of a rigid "sink or swim" approach to childhood education is very Old School. Is the goal to evaluate performance or to gain mastery of a concept or idea?
If your goal is mastery, then retake-retake-retake UNTIL mastery is the name of the game. If it's just to tick the Pass/Fail box and give a gold star to the kids who got it on the first go (either by studying or b/c they didn't need to!) then that is a completely different system.[/quote]

And what about the kids who do all their homework, listen carefully in class, ask questions when they don't understand something, study hard for exams and basically take personal responsibility for themselves and their own learning... what are they learning? Aside from not to bother.

This is just yet another step in the direction of "a trophy for everyone" which anyone who has been paying attention can easily see has NOT been working out well for the youth of today.[/quote]

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