“H” is the new “carbon credit”.
I’ve got no problem with it.
The goal is to educate them. All this does is have them retaught until they get the material or concept involved.
The problem with this whole thing lies with the insane requirements placed upon these kids in the first place!
I have been concerned since these new graduation requirements came out over year ago. They put in place a new graduation system that was far too restrictive. The issue I raised back then was this fact that kids would become discouraged and they would quit rather than face this new system. I was ridiculed for my thoughts. Now, I see I was not wrong.
These kids are from school districts that are already “at-risk” situations. They do not have the support systems at home or the incomes for stability. They cannot keep up with these new requirements, so they quit. The requirements should have been instituted at a slower pace.
The teachers do not have the skills to help these at-risk kids. They can argue all they want, but the current education system cannot help the kids because they are not skilled themselves.
Give this situation another year and you will see incredible drop-out rates in places like Detriot, Flint, Saginaw, Battle Creek and some Kalamazoo schools, as well as Grand Rapids and Muskegon. The inner city kids are the ones who are being hurt by all of this. I want kids to learn well, but if you do not put the proper support system in place first, then the rest means nothing.
When I was growing up in the Dark Ages we called that option “Summer School.” Seeing a big red “F” at the end of the school year you knew half of your summer was going to suck. Or you knew it was coming and did a slew of extra credit the last couple of weeks to at least get it to a D.
H = Do over.
I have no problem with forcing students to retake courses until they learn and pass them . . . but why change the ‘failing’ grade letter to an “H”?
This is unreal. When I was in school there, a failing grade was an E. The only reason they are doing this is so athletes who are failing all their courses can continue to play sports. The GRPS has become an absolute disgrace.
H? We just called them “E’s” back when I was in school, but the effects were the same. Summer School or retakes. That’s why I avoided them. You had to work to get a E. I got mostly B’s by coasting.
Yeah, it was on the front page yesterday.
I wonder what happened to “I” (incomplete)?
The teacher’s union sez it’s going to wind up lowering student performance because they figure, I’ll make it up later.
A college prof I know sez, oh no, now these kids are going to expect his college to give “H”s.
Which means, of course, that he expects these failures in high school somehow to make it to college.
Oy freakin' vey!