High school (and even middle school) is turning more and more into a joke. I have a teacher friend and she was telling me about some of the things the high schools were doing in her district.
In the middle schools they've apparently implemented a rule where the kids can retake a test as often as they want and each test has to be different. This means that kids no longer have a large incentive to study, grades are near meaningless if you can keep taking something until you get an A, and they are adding more work onto already oveworked teachers. It's an absolute joke. At least they started implementing something where if you retake the max you can get is a 90 but it's still beyond stupid.
Something else they implemented last year was a no homework, or at least no homework for grades rule. Teachers would try to assign homework to kids and the kids would rip it up right in front of them because they couldn't be graded on it. The (bad) idea is that homework is just busy work and they shouldn't be graded on that. This year they got a little wiser and made it so homework was worth 10% of the final grade but it's still a beyond stupid system.
They've also added a rule where teachers can't penalize students for not turning in their assignments (homework or major project). A kid could wait until the end of the year to turn in every single assignment throughout the whole course and still get full credit for everything. Of course, again, that screws the teacher because it puts even more work on them and, again, and just an overly stupid rule. They want kids to be judged on their work on not on if they can turn it in on time.
I know this is all off topic, but kids are getting less and less prepared for the college and the real world because of dumb-ass rules like that.
