Photograph by Phil Esposito
On Monday, Dana Simmons got here downstairs to search out her 12-year-old son, Lazare, in tears. He’d accomplished the primary project for his seventh-grade historical past class on Edgenuity, a web-based platform for digital studying. He’d acquired a 50 out of 100. That wasn’t on a apply take a look at — it was his actual grade.
“He was like, I’m gonna should get a 100 on all the remainder of this to make up for this,” stated Simmons in a cellphone interview with The Verge. “He was completely dejected.”
At first, Simmons tried to console her son. “I used to be like effectively, you understand, some lecturers grade actually harshly initially,” stated Simmons, who’s a historical past professor herself. Then, Lazare clarified that he’d acquired his grade lower than a second after submitting his solutions. A…
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