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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
While that sounds like a great system to get kids to do their work, I really did not get that impression from the article.
Seems there are a bunch of kids who missed assignments and refused to complete them. End of the year rolls around and since we all know that kids can't fail either, they want to pass the course with those MEVs simply ignored and an average taken based on the stuff they did complete.
So instead of the MEVs being effective, they allow the students to have a scapegoat and force the teacher to pass them based only on the average of the assignments they chose to do.
The teacher stood up to them and gave them zeros.*
*I didn't read the article, that's just what I'm assuming is the case.
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We're talking about the policy from a pedagogical standpoint. Not based on the article you didn't read.