Statistic Of The Day: Hey, Teachers, Maybe We Can Give Our Students A Break As We Enter Great Depression Territory?

 

April’s unemployment figures came out this morning, and they are awful.

What is going to be gained by failing a student this year?

What is going to be gained by putting any kind of pressure on our students right now?

Shouldn’t we just be making any kind of class work purely voluntary at this point?

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