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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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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I don’t think making an incomplete count as a 50 is really making grades meaningless.

The wider point is that grades are already meaningless.

It's so sad that people here believe that some imaginary meritocracy is being destroyed.