The "H" grade

Okay so some schools in our country have decided to take Fs away and replace them with Hs, which stand for held, and this means that no students fail and will have the opportunity to make up the work late on for full credit. Now I think that is BS but many people think that this might actually be a good thing. People are saying that if students don’t have the negative connotation of failing, then they will do better in school, and that if the F is replaced then students would never fail and grades could be made up. Some people back up this argument by saying that there has been a 15-48% raise in students passing classes, well that’s no shock to me because if you let a student choose when they want to do their work and let them do whatever the hell they want, then they are obviously going to do it later on for a full grade once a kid who actually deserves the grade has done it.

In my opinion this is ridiculous, and even stupid. All this does is promote laziness and say that its ok for you not do your work because you can turn it whenever you want, well that’s wrong because that’s not going to prepare anyone for the real world, and all it’s going to do is baby people. The argument of F having a bad connotation is also a poor argument because failure often drives to kids to do better in school because they have the fear of failure and they don’t want it to happen. It is also unfair to the kids who try and do their work on time because the lazy kids are going to get the exact same grade for putting in less effort, that’s cheap an it really is unfair to the kids who try hard and actually do the things they are suppose to do. All this is going to do is create a lazier generation that will eventually fail in the real world because they wont have any sense of punctuation or doing their work on time, and it will also cast a giant shadow over those kids who actually try because as far as grades go, the kid who did shit, and the kid who did everything on time will have the same grade. This is a ridiculous idea and I don’t even see how people find excuses for kids not doing their work and they are now changing the grade system for the kids who don’t deserve the grades and do nothing. This will only give the ability to not do work and make kids who don’t deserve grades equal to the ones who do, and that’s just not fair because eventually they will have to compete for college spots, and the ones who did the work on time will be no different from the others.