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[angry_chick]

 At West Potomac High School, taking F off the grade books.

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[angry_chick]

LJ IS FUCKING UP MY ENTRY *irritated*

[suzycat]

Interestingly enough I never saw or heard of an F throughout my schooling. But we all knew a D was a fail.

[angry_chick]

Same here. Anything that was D or below was failing. Now, with my sister's school, a 69% or below is failing.

[suzycat]

*A-type student goes into hysterics* Sometimes I *only* got marks in the high 70s in high school! OMG THE HORROR! I would never ever EVER have passed maths! The terror of falling below 70 would have KILLED me! Because *what if they scaled the marks*????

[angry_chick]

My sister's grading scale is seriously -

100-92: A
91-84: B
83-75: C
74-70: D
69 and Below: F

[sixteensims]

Pretty sure my high school had this in place back in the day. I never recieved an "I" grade, but others did. You could still fail the class though, if you had an I at the end of the year.

I didn't think this was such a ~BFD.

[dreamoftheday]

we had F's in my high school but we also had "I" grades and then if you didn't complete the work by a certain point you failed...it wasn't really in place of an F per se but it could happen if say you were missing major assignments or had missed major exams, etc. I never got one but I knew people that did.

[andnightsgrow]

idk, i fail how to see this is a bad thing. they can still get fs, and this way the teachers and the students will both be forced to see the root of WHY those students are getting fs in the first place and give them a chance to fix it before the fs go on their record. it all comes down to caring more about the students LEARNING the material than just retaining the material long enough to pass a class, which is what most public schools seem to concentrate on these days

as a person with adhd who didn't KNOW i had adhd until i nearly failed out of high school, i wish my own school had had such a policy, and as a future educator, i'd be more than happy to practice such a policy

[mercat]

My thoughts precisely. After reading that "shadow writer"'s essay talking about how the schools are the ones not making sure kids actually learn the material, anything that's educational rather than just about getting a piece of paper is okay by me.

[romp]

Yeah, I'm of the opinion that if a student in crashing and burning that badly, everyone should chill the fuck out on the testing and find out what's going on. Maybe the kid needs another place to live, needs support in learning how to live, and then, when that's under control, she can get passionate about learning.

[moonshaz]

MTE

[kapt_krunk]

I don't necessarily hate it. I mean as long as the kid knows an F is still a very real possibility, it might be initiative enough to get their failing ass in gear and get rid of the "I." You can't graduate with "I" grades as far as my high school was concerned so it might help?