Dallas Schools Extend Homework Due Dates Indefinitely

New classroom grading rules in Dallas are drawing fire from teachers and parents as being too lenient on lazy students. The new rules would require teachers to accept late work, give retests to students who fail and force teachers to drop homework grades that would drag down a student's class average. Nancy Bingham, a former teacher, said that she didn't think the rules would help really lazy students adding, "If the kid is hell-bent on failing, they're going to fail anyway." Dallas school superintendent Michael Hinojosa disagrees, saying, "Our mission is not to fail kids. Our mission is to make sure they get it, and we believe that effort creates ability." It's a lot easier to reach for the stars if you lower the sky.

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This will teach children that is ok to be lazy, that if you have a deadline you can extend that indefinitly and no bad consecuences will happen, just like the real world. /sarcasm

The problem with the alarming rates of failing is that education is supposed to be two sided, one part is done by the teachers in the school grounds, while the other part is done by the parents at home, and both sides are very important.