Perspective: An effort to foster equity by easing grading standards that might frustrate students has become one of the most divisive educational issues in the country.
At a meeting with district leaders, he and other teachers objected. The rules destroyed important incentives for learning, they said. The response from the leaders at the time, Sherwin said, was: “Thanks for your input. No change.”
Some teachers are willing to complain to me, but many don’t want their names used. “When students are not taught about negative consequences, then they never learn how to come back from a bad grade, or the value of sticking with something that is hard and really working through it,” said a teacher at Wootton High School in Montgomery County, Md. While his district “continues to do everything they can to make things easier on kids, they also continue to not give a whit about teachers.
A Maryland teacher said her high school students who are dually enrolled in courses at a local college “are like deer in the headlights. They do not understand … why they got a zero for something they chose not to do.” One D.C. teacher called the 50-percent rule “a security blanket that lifts everyone’s grades and lets us all feel better about student achievement even if there isn’t any real academic growth at all.
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