Would....

And just give them all gold stars and a social promotion. Who gives a damn if they can read or make change out of a $20?

It's one thing if someone's dopey enough to not understand how 'activity doesn't mean accomplishment' ... it's an entirely different kind of animal (and one that should be slaughtered at that) to now suggest that 'no activity nevertheless means some accomplishment'.

it's funny because all you really need to do to get a passing grade is basically show up and turn in something

have not mastered basic math skills.

My sot so humble brag sister in law always like to run her mouth about her son ( often at the expense of running my son down) doing coding as part of the cirucculum in fucking kindergarten at whatever better than your school north side CPS he goes to

It's difficult to address the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, let alone jobs that pay well and have a future, when schools are apparently taking an active role in sending kids out into the world with no education and no marketable skills.

I think there is a mathematical argument here for a minimum that isn't 0. Someone could get a 0 on one assignment and a 100% on the next assignment and it is the equivalent of someone getting two 50% on each of them. If it is really about knowledge and achievement that doesn't make a whole lot of sense since we can assume that the 0 did not reflect a complete lack of understanding of 100% of the subject matter.

It's not about a person's level of understanding, it's about that person's level of accomplishment.

My sot so humble brag sister in law always like to run her mouth about her son ( often at the expense of running my son down) doing coding as part of the cirucculum in fucking kindergarten at whatever better than your school north side CPS he goes to

Are you saying school is not about understanding?

You can't assess level of understanding in this sort of situation. Any grade provided would be purely based upon presumption. It also would be solely arbitrary.

Sure you can. Use the hypothetical of one student who misses an assignment and gets a 0, and then gets the next one in and gets a 100. The second student gets a 50% on both assignments. They receive the exact same grade when combined but unless we assume the first student would have gotten a 0 if he had turned something in then we can assume he would have shown more knowledge and/or understanding of the subject manner than the first one.

That is why having a minimum score on the assignment makes sense in a pure mathematical sense if the goal is to judge the knowledge and/or understanding of the student.

Sure you can. Use the hypothetical of one student who misses an assignment and gets a 0, and then gets the next one in and gets a 100. The second student gets a 50% on both assignments. They receive the exact same grade when combined but unless we assume the first student would have gotten a 0 if he had turned something in then we can assume he would have shown more knowledge and/or understanding of the subject manner than the first one.

That is why having a minimum score on the assignment makes sense in a pure mathematical sense if the goal is to judge the knowledge and/or understanding of the student.

teacher can just adjust the grading to achieve whatever ends they want. for the most part. I think a major problem is the 0% if it is late no matter what policy. turn in a great project one day late does not deserve a 0%.

That only carries weight if there are very few (such as 2) assignments.

If you're giving grades for daily work (and if there aren't pretty much daily work assignments, then what the hell's going on?), a missed assignment becomes essentially irrelevant when if comes time to tabulate grades.

Not to mention, again, that it's still receiving something for doing nothing; you can't argue that simple fact away.

No it doesn't because you are rewarding a kid for not doing anything. Surely someone with your non-socialist leanings can "understand" this?

teacher can just adjust the grading to achieve whatever ends they want. for the most part. I think a major problem is the 0% if it is late no matter what policy. turn in a great project one day late does not deserve a 0%.

teacher can just adjust the grading to achieve whatever ends they want. for the most part. I think a major problem is the 0% if it is late no matter what policy. turn in a great project one day late does not deserve a 0%.

Correct. No teacher would ever provide a quarter grade based solely on two assignments.