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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those rules are offensive to students who actually prioritize their schoolwork. [/quote]

Only if you think the entire point of school is to rank students.

If you think it’s to get the most kids possible a basic level of knowledge so they can be productive members of society, it’s not.[/quote]

Another part of school is learning to be a productive citizen who not only has a basic level of knowledge but also has a work ethic,  knows how to meet expectations, handle deadlines, etc.  A basic level of functioning.

Ranking students is a way to bring in people's natural competitiveness in order to help them learn these skills, it's not the end goal.  [/quote]

This. Plus, like it or not, ranking matters for colleges. So yeah, if some slacker or disinterested kid has a shot at the same schools as a kid who actually did the work and didt have to do constant retakes- not ok. [/quote]

The idea that giving a high F on an assignment instead of a low F is going to make Lazy Larlo into your kid's competition is nonsense.[/quote]

It’s not about high F v low F. It’s about kids who would normally earn a D or a C earning B’s even though they have a significant number of missing assignments due to those missing assignments being marked as 50% instead of zero. It inflates the grades A LOT.[/quote]

How in the universe is a kid getting a B if they have "a significant number" of 50%s?  
Like for real - what is the grade spread you are imagining that results in a B?[/quote]
There are different variations of equity grading. Some allow teachers to assign a semester grade based on the best test result attained.  So, if a student got a D, C, B within a semester, the teacher could give a semester grade of B, pointing to the progress the student has made. Unclear what the teacher would do if the progression was B, C, D. Could they still assign a semester grade of B since it was the best grade even though the progression was down?  Hard to know. Another teacher might not follow the "best grade counts" approach at all and would average test grades to get a C. [/quote]

It’s really all over the place. [/quote]

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