At my wife's school in Maryland they decided that it was too hard for students to recover from a uncompleted assignment so they made the lowest grade you could get a 50% and now kids do less work because they can do fewer assignments and still just barely scrape by.
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At my wife's school in Maryland they decided that it was too hard for students to recover from a uncompleted assignment so they made the lowest grade you could get a 50% and now kids do less work because they can do fewer assignments and still just barely scrape by.
Two words Open Source.