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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - and "F" is an "F" is an "F". And it's awfully hard to come back from an F. Stop obsessing on "these kids should be punished!!" An "F" grade is bad-enough.

If there's a way for them to work extremely hard and have a prayer of bringing the grade up to a D or low C, let it happen. In almost all cases it won't end up higher than a D. Not affecting you. Not causing any problems for your student who does their work and does well. Get off your high horse.[/quote]

Not the OP (I'm the PP who said the policy used to bother me but it's growing on me).  The issue (for me, at least) isn't what grade some other person's kid is earning, but the incentives my own kid is facing.  I try to teach accountability at home and I really feel undermined when the teachers are letting so many things go.  This particular policy has grown on me because I think 50% can create accountability without tanking a kid's grade with one bad decision.  But some of the other policies (not enforcing due dates is a big one) really make it hard for me to parent.  The intersection of this practice with delayed grading makes it difficult for me to even see when dd isn't turning things in on time.  And my lectures on consequences for actions fall on deaf ears when teachers tell kids not to worry about it.  I can be the bad guy, but life would be so much easier if the school's approach to accountability was the same as my own.  [/quote]

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