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The issue about equity and early poor performance dragging down the grade even when by end of course mastery the material has been known for years.

The solution is to weigh work from the end of the course to be worth more, to have some assignments early in the course where you drop the two lowest score ones, or similar. Not to just stop grading.

This way you can give critical feedback and establish the framework for evaluation without ruining any GPAs. It also protects the students because the instructor is behold to the framework, the students ca. appeal to higher authorities that the framework is unfair/flawed, etc.