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Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education. (lemmy.nz)

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, sorry, actually teachers have always done that occasionally. It's just that now administrators are forcing it to be done in bulk.

The other thing is grade inflation. A D is passing, right? But many bosses pressure you to give your worst students Bs. And that has definitely gotten worse, too.