NYC High Schoolers Can’t Earn ‘0' Even If They Skip Class, Miffed Teachers Say

Parents and teachers alike are upset with the policy. ‘Not only are they not letting teachers teach, they’re not letting teachers grade,’ one mother said. But an education department rep noted, ‘Schools do not typically use the full 0-100 scale for the reason that doing so makes it extremely unlikely that a student can recover if the semester gets off to a difficult start.’

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