A 60% average is needed to pass. Teachers have been instructed to enter minimum grades of 50% if students turn in nothing. Teachers have also been instructed to override quarter grades to a minimum of 58%. A student can literally turn in fewer than 5 assignments all year and be promoted to the next grade.
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We are creating a generation of scared idiots
Worse. We're generating people who will have no skills and abilities to solve problems themselves.
That is what communists need. OPeople who cannot act unless told.
They will welcome socialism with open arms.
When I was in high school I picked up on that deal. Nobody got a grade lower than a 50, a 50 asterisk was an incomplete. But it got averaged together, four quarters plus the final. So you could totally blow the final or pick a quarter to blow off and still pass with a reasonable grade.
Really they should just hold everyone back a year and do it over, in person. Because that's more or less whats' going to happen, teachers will have to spend tons of time teaching things kids should have learned in the previous grade.
must be GA.
Nope! The Free State... kek!