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Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education. (media.piefed.world)

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The problem is students are awful at knowing what assignments are busywork assignments, and every one of them thinks they're experts. I tell my students "You don't have to do any of the assignments, but make sure you understand what's on there before you decide not to - I might ask you later." And almost without FAIL, every single time I ask a student who didn't do one about one of the questions, or ask them to demonstrate one of the skills they were supposed to be practicing, they can't.

Most daily assignments are neither hard nor time consuming if you know how to do them, which is why the students who DO do them eagerly are actually the ones who don't need the practice. The ones who don't want to do them usually want to avoid them because they are difficult for them, which are the students who need the practice the most.

I'm not saying it's a great system - but it has its reasons.