The thing that gets me about all this is that these policies are all being developed by people who went through school when you got real marks, and either passed or failed. It wasn't that hard. I can't imagine where this world is headed. I get the need for adapting the environment to help the kids who struggle, but to just push them through is doing them a disservice and setting them up for failure. I have three kids, two who do phenomenal in school with little to no prompting and one who struggles. This system has gotten him in over his head several times and the stress compounds quickly. Some days we can't even get him out the door, but when the school actually spends some time teaching him one on one, he learns and he feels so good about himself.
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