Miss the deadline for turning in an assignment? No problem. You won’t be penalized with a “zero” if the Chapel Hill/Carrboro school board adopts a new grading policy being considered for next year. According to the Herald-Sun:
The new grading practices also should do away with punitive grading, such as students getting a zero for missing a due date, Knott said.
“What we do is look at students and focus on what they’re learning,” she said. “Is a zero a reflection of what they’ve learned?”
But she said the new policy was definitely not grade inflation or being too easy on lazy students. The new grading practices instead will more accurately reflect what a student has learned or not learned.
“We’re still holding students according to higher standards than ever before,” Knott said.
Evidently meeting deadlines and keeping commitments isn’t deemed an important skill anymore. Just wait until these folks enter the job market.
