Many of our students come to us from the juvenile justice system. We are their last hope before incarceration. Others are bright students who do not function well in a traditional setting. Still, others are recovering from some addiction problem or struggling with just finding their place. We rarely find the need to give D s and will not accept 0 s on any work.
All work has to be completed before the student has the opportunity to take the test for the unit.
The exceptions occur in classes that allow pre-testing. Over the past 25 years, I have learned that nothing is more unproductive to a good student than having to re-hash the same grammar rules over and over again. I let the students prove to me that they can do the work, then I allow them to go to the next unit. I teach 22 half-credit courses all at the same time, so I must maintain the integrity of my tests. There are several versions of many of these tests.