Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading

Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by cbozeman on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:50AM (#29186597)

Yeah, because in life you have to put in the work.

Using math as an example, you can't master it without a lot of practice, and that practice is homework. Albert Einstein wrote that he was practicing mathematics often and at length from an early age.

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by bedobi on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:10PM (#29193856)

> because in life you have to put in the work

what about the kids who, instead of doing the homework, have to do actual minimum wage work and house chores and help raise their siblings? They probably put in a lot more work than you, but it doesn't show in their grades.

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by dls2016 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:52AM (#29187810)

And to put in the work, you need motivation. The existing homogenized K-12 system of mathematics is not very motivating to a lot of students. Hence the inequality.

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