The high school that my daughter is going to attend in the fall has a
minimum grade of 50% on any assignment. It is a magnet school and the top
school in the county -- open by invitation only.
Needless to say, these kids all calculate their grades down to the decimal
point. When they reach the point in the semester where all they need for an
A is 50% on their remaining assignments, many of them stop doing any work.
No homework, no tests, nothing. They just take the 50.
Yeah, that's a good system.
Oddly, this is the only high school with this policy. The 'regular' high
schools allow zeroes.
Tom
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bob Whitmire
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:46 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Revenge
We freely bestow all kinds of titles, honors and other such crap in
this country. Nothing means anything anymore. There was a time, for
example, when being on the Dean's List was an achievement. Now, I
understand at places such as Harvard, the percentage of students on
the Dean's List exceeds 50. It may even be more than that. (Unless
publicity in the past few years has shamed them into giving it real
meaning again. I dunno. Don't spend that much time keeping up with
what's going on at Harvard.) They've raised pretentiousness to the
level of high art down there.
--Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
On May 5, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Always amazes me how freely the title 'professor' gets bestowed in
> the US.
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