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Dragonlady
Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 720 Location: Chillinfernow, Canada
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:21 am Post subject: no-zero policy in Edmonton (Canada) schools |
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An Edmonton high school teacher says he has been suspended for giving students zeros on uncompleted assignments or exams.
Lynden Dorval, a physics teacher at Ross Sheppard High School, has been giving the mark for work that wasn't handed in or tests not taken even though it goes against the school's "no-zero" policy. |
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Parents are largely unaware of the policy, as teachers were instructed not to speak about it, he said. |
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Other schools in the Edmonton public system also use no-zero marking, he said. |
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Schools as far away as Ontario and Texas had also adopted, but later abandoned the philosophy. |
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/05/31/edmonton-teacher-zeros-sheppard.html
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:52 am Post subject: |
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What replaces the zero? An I for 'incomplete'?
An 'A' for 'absent'?
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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A one-way ticket to Siberia for disobeying his superiors! Wrecker! |
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Eagle Eyes
Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 121 Location: Istanbul
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:14 am Post subject: |
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I guess this means that students are teachers and teachers are students! |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Would that be "zero zero tolerance"?
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Theory
Joined: 21 May 2012 Posts: 19 Location: Japan
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Eagle Eyes
Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 121 Location: Istanbul
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:35 am Post subject: |
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This is precisely why I left Canada for greener pastures as an EFL teacher some two decades ago. I have ZERO tolerance for their educational system anymore as it discriminates against teachers and only favours students needs today! |
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posh
Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 430
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Eagle Eyes wrote: |
I guess this means that students are teachers and teachers are students! |
That was the idea in China's cultural revolution |
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