Teachers want to flunk the new grading policy for students
One of the most contentious of the policies allows a student who fails a test to retake it, with the lower score being tossed out. "Instead of setting high expectations and the high standards and holding them to that, we seem to be wanting to lower the bar and give them an excuse not to succeed," said Dale Kaiser, president of the National Education Association, the teachers union.
Dallas Independent School District officials refused a lot of interview requests from CNN, but in interviews with CNN affiliates and in documents outlining the grading policy, district officials say the goal of the grading system is to more towards learning, not failing.
This is not about giving anybody any sort of free ride. What this is about is giving students a second chance to be successful. The policy allowing failed test scores to be thrown out is just one of several changes to the grading policy that went into effect at the......

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Title: Grading Policy
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