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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, there’s literally no risk for them. They don’t have to study (they clearly know the material already), they can do it during the remediation block so they don’t have to stay after school, and if it’s a worse grade it doesn’t go in the gradebook and the original one stands. I don’t blame them.

OTOH, it’s a boat load of work for teachers to grade half the tests over again.[/quote]

There is a risk in that they get a lower grade and my child’s teacher has been clear that the retake will be much harder.[/quote]

But then the original grade stands. FCPS central office was VERY clear to staff on this policy at the beginning of the year (to prevent what you are saying, discouraging kids from even trying by making the retake insanely hard).  If you are encountering teachers who are dropping grades after students struggle on a punitively hard retake, you should be reaching out.

--teacher (who doesn't love the policy, but if we are going to do it we should all do it the same way)[/quote]

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