Posted on 03/21/2015 12:52:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
That means that 50 will be equal to zero.
The only way you could possibly get a zero is by not doing anything, or completely failing. Most teachers at the grade-school level give you at least 5 or 10 points just for putting your name and date on the page.
If you look at high school, different teachers do different things. Some drop up to one or two of your lowest scores over the semester/year, almost all teachers allow you to make corrections for half or quarter credit.
If a student is getting a zero (or even mostly 50s and below), there’s something seriously wrong with either the student or the teacher, and simply requiring a 50% isn;t going to help the student and figure out the problem. What happens is 50 becomes the new 0 baseline.
I was born and raised in Germany and went to school there. 1 was the the best you could get, followed by 2 3 4 and 5 as failing
There is a reason while I type that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave while I start his last name with the number 0 and not the letter O
I hope you’re not serious
How else would we get our new Govt.employees ?
Reminds me of the “token” Lt. we got from Boston College ... was dumber than a fence post but had a nice personality and played well with others.
That looks like Navy variation on the old saw about knives and guns, never bring a Zero to an F18 fight :)
So a struggling student can put in lots of effort, and end up with a 47... and another kid can sit and shoot spitwads and disrupt the class and draw pictures all day and get the same grade, and mock the student for his effort. Great life lesson there.
They will become politicians where no intelligence, logic or common sense is needed...
“”but he also misspelled his name.””
He’s in Congress today, right?
VP material I’d say.
Socialism at it’s best.
Do they all get together, at the end of a class day -— and sing Kum Ba Yah?
Lets not offend the stupid
Since they’re not very bright, you could give them a negative number as their grade and they might be happy.
Geezz. This is old news. I teach at the lowest performing school in Gwinnett County (Georgia) , and we have been “encouraged” to give 50’s instead of 0’s for 4 to 5 years. Every year there is an article sent to us called “The power of 0”. It tells us the destructive effect of a 0 on a students grades and psyche. We are expected to give 50’s even if the students don’t turn in assignments. We are taken to the woodshed if we have more than 15% failure rate. Of course, this policy is never put in writing. It is always deniable.
You have to work pretty hard at doing nothing to get a zero anyway.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.