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[quote=Anonymous]First assessment in the books and as expected, the only kids coming to use for retakes are the ones who scored 90%.

The kids who need the retakes don't ever take them because most of them got that grade by barely doing any work in the first place.  They're certainly not interested in doing even more work in order to score a higher grade on an assessment they didn't care about in the first place.

We tried to tell parents at BTSN that it's going to be way too stressful for these kids if they plan on taking every, single test in all their classes twice in order to try to raise their grade on each of them.  Parents all nodded in agreement but here are their kids...taking every test twice trying to eke out a few extra percentage points.

I suspect what will happen is that after awhile, many of the kids will realize that they either can't score higher the second time around OR that it barely has an impact on their grade to go from a 90 to a 92 and that it's not worth the effort.[/quote]

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