TIFU by joking with my students

They're already sort of doing that. Many schools will make the lowest score on any assignment a 50% because giving anything lower "makes them fall so far behind they don't feel like they can catch up." Don't turn in the assignment? Here's your 50%. Thankfully my admin doesn't enforce that, but our district policy is still that final grades below 50 are marked on report cards as 50%. There is also a limit on common final exams for the lowest score as 59%.

Not to mention the push to accept late work the entire marking period with no penalty. It's fine, kids don't need to learn about deadlines. We'll just make the teachers grade a bunch of late work just before grades are due.

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