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The goal of school is to learn the material. Why does it matter if they do retakes — they demonstrate they have learned the material.  If you fail the bar exam you can take it again. If you fail your drivers license exam you can retake. So why should school be any different?[/quote]
+1 That's growth mindset, "I don't know this [u]yet[/u]"[/quote]

Exactly. We want kids to learn the material and be motivated to keep trying.

My kid right now has a cool grading policy for geometry that is motivating: the grade is only based on quizzes and tests. If you do better on the test than the quizzes then your quiz scores get bumped up to the test score. And if you get any problems incorrect on the test, you can do a thoughtful exercise on why you got it wrong and how to do it correctly - to bump up grade by 1/2 point per problem.

It's been very motivating for my kid and I hope to see more teachers (esp math) use this grading policy. 
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I used to agree with this but then I heard someone say - what it’s going to be like when it’s these kids age working at nasa. Oops we just missed the moon - we will just do a redo. [/quote]

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