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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness. [/quote]

I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.[/quote]

Professor here. This change will help prepare kids for college, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points. [/quote]

Uh, professor, the kids who routinely get 50 percent grades are not headed to college either way.[/quote]
This change will help prepare kids for trade school, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points.  Better?[/quote]

Sounds like you don’t understand how trade school works. Sure there are programs that require significant outside study. But there are also programs that are 100% hands on learning with no traditional tests and no outside assignments. And people who completed these programs are probably instrumental in keeping your day to day life afloat.

People have such a ridiculous knee jerk reaction to the 50% rule, like the kids who benefit would somehow compete with their kids for anything in life. They never even bother to consider the kids who benefit. The scorn for kids who are troubled is disturbing and the failure to see the larger harm for ignoring troubled kids, kids whose families cannot support them and kids with special needs is astounding. If a kid doesn’t get a HS diploma, likely someone is going to have to be supporting them later, like us taxpayers. [/quote]

I have posted this before.  I have a son who benefited from the 50% rule several times in HS.  He screwed up or totally did not understand a concept.  The 50% helped him recovered grade wise for the semester.  There seems to be this idea that everyone is just turning in a series a blank papers and handed a diploma.  Many kids benefit occasionally while working hard and mostly doing fine.  He is college grad and is self supporting.  I think the 50% rule has a place in education...though like all things it can certainly be abused.  [/quote]

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