Tag Archives: Grades

Oct 2010

Staff Ed: The D grade passes unprepared student and should be eliminated from CHS

Every stressed-out student has dreamed about failing an unexpected but vital exam. At Clayton, failure is an ever-looming possibility in students’ minds. But what if it was impossible to fail? What if failure was no longer an option? New Jersey’s Mount Olive school district has recently instated a policy that changed the meaning of ‘pass.’ [...]

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May 2010

PowerSchool: an asset or addiction?

I have found, like many CHS students, that I have an addiction– and a rather serious one at that. I cannot say it is one that is so often addressed like drug abuse or alcohol. No, it is an addicting, painful and pleasuring experience that is reserved for the most grade obsessed students at our [...]

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