re: Teacher says she was fired for giving zeroes to students who didn't turn in their work

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I understand the gripes about a policy like this, but I'm just pointing out a few of the arguments in its favor.

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enrolled kids determine funding

giving grades of zero increases the dropout rate

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No Profit

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This kid will end up hating life when he figures out the real world has consequences

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I respectfully disagree. This kid is being taught that he doesn't have to be accountable for his actions, and the government will take care of him. In his mind, why put forth effort when social promotion will pass him on to the next grade level ? Once he enters the real world, he will be primed to take advantage of the welfare system supported by tax payers. He will be a sperm donor and the cycle continues for the next generation of kids.

Regardless if the student is a male or female, the same aforementioned logic applies when parents set their kids up for failure. 30+ years ago it I didn't turn in my homework, my parents would have beaten the shite out of me. We live in a much different world today where the inmates run the asylum

Nah I got a lot of zeros because I wouldn't do shite and my parents would be livid with me. It wasn't used in place of discipline, I didn't do the work so I didn't deserve the credit.

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enrolled kids determine funding
giving grades of zero increases the dropout rate
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No Profit

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, I completely agree there are ulterior motives. However, logical motives can exist too.

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Ended her sentence in a preposition

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Which is perfectly fine. The rule that people often cite is intended for Latin grammar and has no bearing on English grammar. There are times when trying to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition creates unnecessary and awkward phrasing. Of course, in this case, it could have been easily done.

Winston Churchill once allegedly exclaimed, "That is the sort of thing up with which I will not put!" to mock someone who criticized him for ending a sentence with a preposition.

I agree for not getting a grade for not turning in any work. But teachers just love to mark points of of grades, some do anyway.

Oh, you did it in wrong color, oh you forgot it in your car and turned it in after class, oh, any other reason I can subract points to show you how I am really in charge here.

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So you could legit not do shite all year and then get a D by trying the last 2 weeks. It’s not hard to go from a 50 to a 60

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Completely untrue if you waited until the last two weeks to gear up. For example, say you get 50% of 2000 points for doing nothing the first majority of a year, and then in the last 2 weeks you get 70% of 300 points, you will end up with 1210 of a possible 2300 points, which is tada 52.6% , which means by improving by 20% over the last 2 weeks of the year you have added a grand total of 2.6% to your average, and let's face it , no one that gets 50% over the first all but two weeks of a school term is going to get anywhere close to 70% on the last two weeks.

That being said, this is a terrible policy, that's independent of your statement about improving your grade to such an extreme. Do zero work, get zero points, that's my belief.

You telling me a student can make As and Bs for half the semester and then literally do nothing for the rest of the semester and finish with a C? That will really set them up well for college!

frick this gay earth.

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Students can take the same test up to 4 or 5 times until they get an acceptable grade.

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Do they get the answers after the first test?
How long between tests do they get before re-taking the same test?