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Originally Posted by Slava
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.
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I agree completely that's the better outcome for the kid. If you got less than 50% in a high school course you don't know the material or didn't show up much of the time or both.
So that's awesome that the school administrators allowed that - it's more work for them so that doesn't always happen even when it should.
Way better to learn about the consequences of not working hard at 16 than 26 or 36.