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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does it help against failures? I don't see this happening. I just saw someone post their grades in this pyramid and they are all F's with less than 20% completion rate and there is no disability. They just don't do any work and are online all day gaming and chatting.[/quote]

For the failing students, according to Feldman, the teachers would then adopt a mastery implementation plan after the end of term final. Students would be able to review and or learn areas of inadequate mastery. The teachers and those students would work together towards the goal of some level of mastery. Thus many fewer students would fail. For those students that develop some level of mastery during the end of term assessments, their final grades are baked in, and no extra credit allowed. I don’t believe those students would be allowed to retest to get a higher grade. Any initial “passing” assessment would likely be permanent.

So there’s much more work involved for teachers, hence the pushback amongst teachers. The skills based grading is also more time consuming. [/quote]

Is this a thing?  My kid currently has 2 Ds and 1 F.  We have an IEP meeting next week and I haven’t heard of any sort of plan.  Teachers keep saying he needs to come to Warhawk Time more.  That’s the only plan I’m hearing about.  At this point I’m looking into summer credit recovery options.  I thought electives would be easier grades and he didn’t take them pass fail but they are 2/3.  I really can’t understand the grading in those classes. [/quote]

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