Eyebrows raised over city school policy that sets 50% as minimum score

Judy Leonardi, a Stanton Heights resident and retired district home economics teacher, said she objected to the notion that a student could “walk in the door, breathe the air and get 50 percent for that.” “I don’t think it sets kids up properly for college, for competition in life,” she said. To Ms. Leonardi, a 20 percent score means a student isn’t trying or needs more help with the material. Automatically putting 50 percent in the grade book, she said, doesn’t help the student in either case. “To me, it’s morally wrong,” she said. Ms. Leonardi worries that the policy could cause high-performing students to goof off from time to time, safe in the knowledge that they wouldn’t have to bounce back from anything lower than a 50 percent. [...]

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