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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My high school currently has 1,000 E grades with 50% or lower.

We are hoping this is a wake up call / FAFO moment for the students.  We’ll see.  So many students just put the bare minimum in and it has been a lifelong habit enabled by MCPS and parents.[/quote]

My HS is probably in that same boat.  Last I heard like 500-600 were below a 20% which means they might as well not show up until 2nd semester.[/quote]
This is where I wish schools would be proactive and put students in credit recovery for second quarter. Kids below 20% typically failed previously because the issue is most likely attendance. Yet the teacher was expects to jump through hoops to try to get them to pass because “there was a chance”. Maybe now there could be acknowledgment to kids and parents sooner that the student needs to get it together and redo that quarter.[/quote]

In defense of our school, the Asst. Principal sent letters and emails to every student that was in that scenario at Interims time and informed them of the consequences.  It wasn't like we waited until report cards were due to tell kids they had 0 chance at passing.

Credit recovery would be nice but the way it's set up, I fear kids would fail on purpose just to do the credit recovery during quarter 2 because it's typically a much easier and less involved process.[/quote]

Seems like there needs to be a new 'system' for credit recovery, at least at schools where there are a lot of kids in this boat.  Such as selecting a few of the courses with a lot of Q1 failures (probably math and english) and starting the kids back at the beginning of Q1-- i.e., redoing the full Q1 course concurrently with the Q2 course.  (Could be a double-period class that teaches both Q1 and Q2 content or just an add-on Q1 course).  Though the devil is in the details-- impossible in terms of teaching loads this year. Though in the future they could anticipate such a thing and arrange teaching schedules in a way that could have someone move into teaching this course at the beginning of Q2.  [/quote]

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