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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With no scores below 50% (eg no 0s for missing assignments), mandatory retakes for anything under a B, how is anyone failing?[/quote]

Retakes are not mandatory and if they were you can still never do well on the test.[/quote]

A student who doesn't do the work and doesn't do well on tests or retakes or doesn't retake at all, is still going to fail no matter what policies you put in place.

Those ludicrous policies were established specifically for the students who were already failing.  50% is still failing.  Students failing because they don't do the work don't suddenly start doing the work when their minimum score is raised, even if it's still a failing grade.

I'd like to know how many students this 50% policy actually helps. I suspect it only benefits students (but doesn't make them better students) who were borderline and now get a D or maybe a C more easily because they don't have to counteract "zero" scores with D or C work.  I don't see how it in any way helps any student who is failing. And it doesn't motivate higher-performing students who can already get away with a bad score here or there and/or make up for it with their otherwise straight A's.[/quote]

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