Here again we are enabling stupid kids to move forward in life and become stupid adults. How about we just make a policy that kids need to work harder and pass? Oh no ... that's just silly.

Quoted: Proposed policy would allow student scores of zero to equal 50.
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Their argument: Other letter grades — A, B, C and D — are broken down in increments of 10 from 60 to 100, but there is a 59-point spread between D and F, a gap that can often make it mathematically impossible for some failing students to ever catch up.