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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
Grades have become a joke. Mainly because they mean nothing anymore. I'm one of those teachers who believes that in reality, only about 2 or 3 students in a classroom are smart enough for honor roll.
And while those students get Fs in subjects, we don't have the authority to retain them. We can recommend it, but we have no say in whether the student passes or fails a grade.
This helped me understand why, when teaching 6th graders, I had a kid in there who was 14.
Oh, and yes, that student got an F. In fact, she got an F in everything. She still passed 4th grade.
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It has been many years since I was in school and I wonder what benefit there is in passing these students on to the next grade. It seems like this is not good for the students, teachers, parents and society in general. Isn't this just making it extremely difficult for the teachers in the next grade level?