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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Its seems most teachers and parents share concerns about declining standards and grade inflation. So where is it coming from? Who’s pushing the policy of passing everyone regardless of how much work they do?
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School administration. I'm familiar with one high school teacher who got tons of flack for failing kids, with a stated rule being that 45% or lower got rounded to 50%.
I think incentives matter here - the school board automatically gets their funding for students who pass and get the credits for a course. To get anything for students who fail they have to submit a form justifying what % of the course they delivered. So getting as many people as possible to pass is incentivized, whether they know the content or not.