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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former teacher here.... If the goal is actually to help students LEARN the material, retakes are a good thing.  If the goal is to get a grade to put in the grade book, retakes are not given.  [/quote]

Teachers have posted in this thread that retakes don't actually help students learn the material.  [/quote]

Actually, they've posted the opposite.  Retakes don't help the student learn the material sooner, but they help them learn the material eventually.  As a society, we need to determine if the goal of school is to educate kids on subjects, or to grade/rank/compare kids for college.  It's very difficult to merge the two.[/quote]

+1
Do we care if children master the material or do we care if we sort out the highest and lowest students?
Or maybe there should be dual track grading policies.  In honors and AP classes, no retakes.  The purpose of grades is to rank and sort for college admission.
In on grade and remedial classes, retakes are fine.  Those kids probably aren't going to HYP anyway, so let's make sure they actually learn the material.[/quote]

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