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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by yogeshlor on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:39AM (#18895471)
how about hyphen -
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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by tatami on Sunday January 13, 2019 @02:30AM (#18895588)
Which is not an Integer and the whole view crashes after the ConversionError.

You know it

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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by saagarjha on Sunday January 13, 2019 @02:42AM (#18895610)
My high school system used to convert those to zeroes, just FYI. Anything that was nonnumeric and not a fixed set of "aliases" (for example, "pass" might mean 100% if the teacher set it up that way) became a zero.
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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by nailer on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:19AM (#18896756)
How about using an integer where an integer is needed and false where no grade has been produced, with the teacher and student UI showing 'Not yet graded [x]' rather than using magic numbers?
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