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No, she did get straight As, but so did everyone else around her.  She works hard.  We moved.  She is working harder to maintain her As. She's on a three-year plan to graduate from high school.

She's working PT, keeping up her grades, and is very involved in music.

Let me fill you in on a little secret:  When you eliminate the 50% rule and put the onus on the student so that re-teaching and re-assessing are not necessary, children will rise to meet the expectations.  That means an A TRULY stands for high academic achievement.

Unfortunately, we tend to judge others when we know very little about their own experiences.  I am an expert in education after being in the field for over 25 years.  When you can no longer maintain integrity, it's time to move out or move into a place where instruction is still rigorous.

So the fighting on these threads is useless.  Some parents will continue to defend the system b/c they don't know any better.  Others will leave for another system or head toward private.

So it's a win-win for all, right?  You do you, and I'll do me.
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If I were school administrators, and my job performance would be largely judged by how well (test scores I suppose?) students perform, what would I do?
If I could, I might choose to prevent those bad apples from entering the school. Unfortunately, I could not.

And I know no matter what I do, some of these students simply will not put more effort in studying.

Then the natural choice, would be to give everyone better grades. That may not increase their SAT or MAPS, but at least it will make their GPA look better.

That, is a win-win for all.

We know what the problems are, there is simply no solution.
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you got halfway there school administrators are judged on the achievement gap

how do you do that ensure the top and bottom students get closer together

how do you do that eliminate tracking and try and groups students homogeneously across schools that second point is what this new policy does

ps if some high income folks leave the system that actually helps you towards your goal
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