THIS IS child abuse!-----Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading

Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
"...These days, the Alhambra High School English teacher has done away with points entirely. 

He no longer gives students homework and gives them multiple opportunities to improve essays and classwork. 

The goal is to base grades on what students are learning, and remove behavior, deadlines and how much work they do from the equation.
The changes Moreno embraced are part of a growing trend in which educators are moving away from traditional point-driven grading systems, aiming to close large academic gaps among racial, ethnic and economic groups. 

The trend was accelerated by the pandemic and school closures that caused troubling increases in Ds and Fs across the country and by calls to examine the role of institutionalized racism in schools in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer...Read all.