[prepend]

> Students cannot miss a homework assignment, fail an exam, not achieve an A, make any kind of faux pax on social media, etc…

As someone close to a high school student, I’m actually surprised how much “make up” is allowed. All missed assignments can be done any time during a semester for no penalty. Two exams can be retaken for a max grade of 80.

When I was in high school there were no retakes at all.

[HollywoodZero]

+1. My oldest is in high school now and even in her honors classes there's the ability to turn on some things late and even some re-takes are allowed.

I don't know where these ZERO mistakes-type of mentality is coming from.

[prepend]

These are honors and ap classes. There’s also unlimited turins for higher grades. Each class is 20-50% assignments so if you just turn in your homework you’re kind of guaranteed a B.

I think this is because of hyper competitive college prep where everyone wants to get straight As.

[armchairhacker]

Back in the day, getting a C was fine but getting an A was really hard, most students got Bs or Cs.

Now, getting an A isn’t so hard but a C is seen as a terrible, because most students are getting As.

Lots of schools have policies like yours but they’re not removing the pressure, they’re just shifting what’s “acceptable”. Sometimes they actually make it worse because now near-perfect scores are the norm, and if you mess up there’s no way to do extra somewhere else to bring you back to average.

[sudosysgen]

There were none of these when I was in high school only a few years ago, and they still aren't a thing from the high schoolers I know.

The system is still the same - every day you miss the assignment is one fewer grade, except for some, where you automatically get zero. You cannot retake an exam without cause.

It's just selection bias.

[alphakilo]

not my experience... is this a board/school policy or a specific teacher?

never seen teaches let exams be retaken

[after_care]

I think it's more common than you would expect. It's a configurable option in many online learning solutions (Canvas, BlackBoard). InQuisitive allows you to keep answering questions until you reach 100% grade, and often represent 10%-30% of a course's entire grade.

[karmanyaahm]

Most of my school's core subjects allow retakes for a limited grade (not in AP classes though). Just one data point fwiw

[prepend]

It seems the district or at least the school because it’s every class and was similar in middle school.