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The 50% Bare Minimum: How It's Becoming Impossible For Students To Fail

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Phoebe Jacobson
May 08, 2024
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The subject heading in the email was in bold, cc’d to my supervisor: BELOW 50%!!! It was referring to the 37% one of my students had earned so far. Nothing else needed to be said—it was a self-evident smoking gun, like a woman holding up her husband’s shirt with a lipstick stain. 

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Award-winning urban public high school teacher and writer. Proud single mom of five adult children. 15+ years in education.
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