New policy paves a way to cheat in school.
But for kids who fail, without safety rails, in life they’ll fail for sure;
a callous delay from a School Board cold and cruel.
(The Random Poet: 06/24/2022
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<<<< Quotes from public comments made at the Jul 19,2021 meeting include for example: “… how, students struggling with their studies, can improve if they don’t receive a true assessment of what they really understand.” They suggested that “… multiple retakes of a test will encourage recalling words that are ‘right answers’ with no understanding of their meaning”. Some attendees, through personal stories, explained how these policy changes “could be most harmful to those students who struggle hardest to understand the material”, and questioned “why encourage cheating?” >>>>