I did some extra credit in high school...

Yeah, some of you people need to get off your high horse. The kids I coach need help sometimes due to having rough home situations, so I talk to the teacher and work something out. We keep it under the table, but that's how it is sometimes.

I can promise you that I know.
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ncaa, alabama hs assoc., and bham school system have all cleared the situation. when Eric's grades were so low, he was living in a car people. he was homeless. some of ya'll may make fun of that, but imagine being 16 years old and having no home to go to. eric, and kid's around this country everyday, are lucky to have teachers who care enough to let them do the extra things to try to get them in the place they need to be to be successful. it happens with non-athletes too.

That's still academic fraud (if that was the case). I can't say I'm a teacher yet, but I'm working to get there. Personally, I can't believe some of you educators are openly admitting you would give a student something they did not earn for completely subjective reasons. I mean seriously, did you guys not have to work for anything in your lives? Maybe I'm just too uptight, but your reasoning seems unethical to me.
 
I am a teacher. I do not do this but some of my colleagues will give a student an opportunity to re-work missed problems and will give them 10 points to do so, or so many points per problem missed. I do not know the extra credit policies in the school district he attended nor the grading scale; but, if that was the case, and it was a high c, raising it to a low a is completely feasible. That being on the standard grading scale.

A perfect example of why US students lead the world in science and math proficiency.
 
A perfect example of why US students lead the world in science and math proficiency.

Yeah really....When I was in HS, there were definitely extra credit opportunities, but only things like adding a few points to your lowest test score, or getting half-credit for finishing up some incompletes. The reports have been making it sound like several of his internal course grades had been changed dramatically, and this would have to be so for such a radical final grade difference (from a C to an A). So, it had to have been quite a few internal grades, and for it to average out to an A, he must have been getting full credit for work he either previously failed or did not do. If that's the case, what is the point of due dates for assignments or even trying to do well on them or tests? Since you can just make it up later and get full credit for it, why put forth the effort?

So, if what I'm saying is correct, and the Algebra teacher still has "no credible reasons" for altering the grades, you can put your money on the speculation that Bledsoe got credit for a lot of stuff he didn't do. Either that, or the teacher gave him full credit for all the make-up work. Remember, his final grade of a C was recorded before he ultimately received the A. So, he was allowed to do all that make-up work, I guess only a few days before school got out, and received full credit. My HS would have had a decent graduation rate if all the teachers were like that.
 
A perfect example of why US students lead the world in science and math proficiency.

It could also have something to do with the fact that teachers get paid for class size. Students are herded through graduation every year regardless of their proficiencies. High school and college are (for the most part) nothing more than vocational schools. No need to teach logic or language anymore. Let's just make sure the kids know how to take standardized tests.

Pretending like this is some black eye to a perfect education/grading system is an absolute joke.
 
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It could also have something to do with the fact that teachers get paid for class size. Students are hearded through graduation every year regardless of their proficiencies. High school and college are (for the most part) nothing more than vocational schools. No need to teach logic or language anymore. Let's just make sure the kids know how to take standardized tests.

Pretending like this is some black eye to a perfect education/grading system is an absolute joke.
Until science and math are categories on American Idol and America's Got Talent, good look on getting kids to care enough to be proficient in either.
 

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