No-Zero Grading Policy Trend

I absolutely disagree with a no-zero grading policy for students!!!!!!!!

I imagine that the people who support this ridiculous policy also support the idea that every kid on a sports team deserves a trophy - NO THEY DON'T!

We're supposed to teach our children/students how to be successful upon completion of their secondary education, but we can't teach them that if we are constantly lowering our standards.

I believe that if a student does not meet the deadline, that student has demonstrated disregard for the deadline, therefore that student needs to understand that their are consequences for not getting work turned in on time.

What do we think will happen when that student becomes an employee somewhere and they don't meet deadlines set by their employer?  Employers speak in the language of money, if they miss out on making money because an employee missed a deadline, that employee has lost their job. 

This is what a no-zero grading policy will create, a culture of students who become employees, who feel that the rules don't apply to them.

Students who feel that the rules don't apply to them can easily become criminals who feel that the rules don't apply to them.  Is this what we want?! NO!!!!!

This may be what the prisons and jails want, but as an educator, this is not what I want to teach or be taught to my students.

We must teach our youth to be on time, to read everything, to ask questions, to meet deadlines, and to accept the consequences of their actions with dignity and understanding.

The no-zero grading policy will teach them the opposite.