Who likes to get a ZERO on a quiz or a test?
This is a question you might ask a few elementary school kids in your audience as you begin to speak. Or ask a middle-schooler or high school student how they feel when their test paper comes back with a big fat ZERO on it in red ink?
Perhaps it isn't a ZERO. It might be a 25 percent, or 40 percent — something like that.
In some school districts across the country, these kinds of grades are a thing of the past. No more ZEROS! There's a movement afoot in some educational systems that is designed to keep students from feeling the pain of a ZERO. These school districts are creating a grading scale in which failure is not an option.
Under a new policy in Virginia's Fairfax County Public Schools, middle and high school students can earn a score no lower than 50. Across the Potomac River in Maryland, Prince George's County will limit failing grades to a 50 percent minimum score. All the students have to do is show a "good-faith effort."
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