[yaitsyaboi]

I don't think theres a school district in the country that will advance a kid with a 50% average to the next grade. Idk if there's some arcane No Child Left Behind provision about kids who have been stuck for 3 years, but in general a 50% is a no go.

And it's not like you can get 50s all year and get a few 80s and average it out. It takes a lot of really sustained effort to come back from that. Most kids won't. But at least it's mathematically possible for more of the year.

[csa]

> I don't think theres a school district in the country that will advance a kid with a 50% average to the next grade.

You’re half right.

Most school districts won’t let a student with a 50% average pass.

That said, teachers will be pressed to give extra points for participation or extra credit or just to change the scores to get said kid over a passing level. Some teachers will do this unprompted just to make sure they don’t have to see the kid next year.

Not to mention that there will undoubtedly be calls of some sort of discrimination if failing grades are common in any given teacher’s class.

[xienze]

> I don't think theres a school district in the country that will advance a kid with a 50% average to the next grade.

You’d be wrong to assume that. Here’s a kid that made it to 12th grade having only ever passed 4 classes. 0.13 GPA, and that actually put him in the top 50% of his class. Things are much, much worse than you think.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/city-student...

[refurb]

So if you’ll just fail the student overall, won’t that hurt them as much as a failing test grade?

If they can’t do the work you need to let them know at some point. Not sure delaying the news is that helpful!!