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Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education.
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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The purpose of a class is to instill a specific set of knowledge and skills.
The purpose of an assignment is to provide the student with sufficient pressure to study the expected knowledge, and practice the expected skills. The assignment is the pressure to learn; it is not evidence of learning.
To the student who has achieved mastery of that knowledge and skillset prior to completing the class, an assignment has no valid purpose. For such a student, the assignment is busywork, and serves only to distract the student from further study.
If your grading style does not allow for a student to demonstrate mastery and refuse busywork assignments, your grading is a problem.
A student with test scores equal or better than the class average does not deserve to fail your class for having refused assignments.
A student who ritualistically completes all of their homework assignments with excellent marks, but is entirely unable to pass a test on the subject matter, is a student who has failed your class.
If a teacher gives out homework and a student masters the homework, then they fail the test... Then the teacher fucked up obviously.
All we can say from the given scenario is that the student has not demonstrated mastery of the subject material.
It could be that the teacher fucked up, and tested improperly. I've seen tests that didn't reflect the subject matter; the teacher failed.
It could be that Mom or Dad were the ones completing the student's assignments for them all year. The student never actually learned anything; the student failed.
If every student had the same experience, I'd be happy to point fingers at the teacher. But when virtually all her students pass, and this one "workaholic" kid can't, that's not on the teacher. That's on the kid.
(Apparent) hard work is not evidence of mastery.