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I suppose this is the latest front for the anti-racists (as compared to the not-racists): Now, misbehavior (within some reasonable limits) should not result in a lowered grade; there are other places on the report card for identifying social adjustment issues. But no penalties for missing...

The latest nonsense on education courtesy of FauxNews claims that the Baltimore school system has re-orientated from Equality of Opportunity (Everyone has a chance to learn) to Equality of Outcome (Everybody passes)...

In my day the breakdown for grades was something like this: 3.3 - 4.0 = A 3.2 - 2.5 = B 2.4 - 1.7 = C 1.6 - 1.0 = D .9 - = F I vaguely recall it varying some (eg some places 3.0 was the A cutoff etc) but can anyone confirm/deny a "norm" and/or how to translate a numeric grade (eg 90%...

I know that there are some experienced teachers ( I use the term with its broad meaning--teachers of every level of education) in this forum so I thought to ask for your input and discuss the matter theoritically.:) I am grading the papers of the exams in Criminal Law II, the course that goes...