Why Easy Grading Is Good for Your Career

[jamesford]

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many of his regular students refused to do the work. They did not show up for tests and did not take makeups. They did not turn in lab reports. Homework was often ignored.

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“Still, the principal told me that the failure rate was unacceptable, and I needed to fix it,” Hibbard said. "The pressure to give grades instead of actually teaching increased.

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<p>The kids don’t do the work, get 0’s on tests, and people are somehow surprised that they’re failing? And to top it all off, the principal isn’t addressing the problem, emphasizing the grades over the actual learning. This is partly to blame why the American high school education system as a whole is so crappy.</p>