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Originally Posted by bizaro86
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.
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I hear things like this, but let's just say I know a certain young man very well who is about to experience failure at 46% and I'm thrilled! Don't get me wrong, I'm nowhere near thrilled for his effort (and complete lack thereof) in this particular course. But he tried to worm his way out of that and I didn't actually want that to happen. It's hardly catastrophic failure and this is a fantastic outcome. He has no option but to re-take this course, and it's purely an effort scenario.
So...who knows, but there was no "just throwing the kid 5%" and getting him across the line here. It's disappointing and frustrating as a parent, but the truth is, he's going to learn a good lesson here where it really doesn't matter a lot. He'll buckle down next time and the failure will teach him more than somehow passing undeservedly ever would have.