I think that in this matter the policy is wrong. I think that the student's final grade should be reflective of the progress they have made and not about what their past grade was. I know that if I was this student I would feel disheartened. I would look at all the work I did to try to improve myself and see that it did not matter in the long run and probably give up. Why try if it does not help?
Since this is an English course how I would evaluate it would be to take the latest marks and use those ones. I would do it this way for this subject because I find English outcomes tend to be ongoing throughout the semester. I would do this too though for any other subject if I saw an increase in the mastery of an outcome. If a student shows mastery of an outcome later on in the course that they did not earlier on then it is only fair to use the latest knowledge indication.
If it was utterly up to me and I had the choice I would give the student the mark that reflects their growth and their achievement. I think that if they have done the work then they should get a mark that reflects it. Herein lies the sticky part of the situation though which is how unbendable is "policy?" Is that the final say and it does not matter what improvement a student has shown? There are no extenuating circumstances at all? This is the way it HAS to be for every student? I question this because to me it does not make any sense. We are being taught in our classes that each student is different and has different abilities and needs. If they are meeting the outcomes that are set out before them why have a policy that dictates what a student's success should look like?
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