School district’s new grading system gives students a low grade of 40% instead of a zero:
A school district in Missouri adopted a new grading system that prevents students from receiving a zero even if they didn’t do the assignment.
The Kansas City Public School district launched the “no zero policy.’
Essentially, the minimum grade on any given assignment is 40%. The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up, KCTV reported.
I laughed out loud at the story. But it’s not funny.
Sadly, the recent paradigm has been that a student can turn an assigment in late for half credit. So now actually doing the work, albeit late, only will yield one up to an additional 10% for the student’s efforts. So why bother?
Because it makes the administrators look good.
