It's called Mastery Grading, and we at LAUSD are under tremendous pressure to do it. The logic is that 60% to pass is too high, and besides, a zero pulls kids down so far that the poor, soft little darlings just give up and return to their feather beds with their iPads and chips and weed.
I've personally mastered the fine art of creating assignments where the first 50% is so easy, even the Geico caveman could do it, so that all kids who even make an effort (and I'm pretty good at drawing effort out of them) can get to the 50% mark, and from there I can usually get them to put forth the effort to get to the 70%. But it involves a lot of pulling and tugging and pushing and nagging and encouraging on my part.
“But it involves a lot of pulling and tugging and pushing and nagging and encouraging on my part. “
I’ve experienced the same thing: Instructors practically begging students to turn in anything, even the last day of class, anything at all.
Instructors are graded by how many students pass at what grade, yet, the schools let in anything with a pulse and demand instructors keep them enrolled somehow so the school gets the money.
This leads to grade inflation. What was an F is now a C, and a C is now an A.
> It’s called Mastery Grading... <
It’s a bit off-topic, but I am amazed how the left comes up with that kind of wording. Liberals are now progressives. Illegal aliens are now dreamers. Lowering standards is now mastery grading.
The list goes on and on.