The Denver school district is changing its approach to high school grading during remote learning, after hearing feedback from students, families, and educators.
Students will now have a choice: For each class, they can decide whether they want to receive a letter grade or would prefer their transcript to show that they earned or did not earn credit for the course. No student will receive an F this semester.
Thatap according to a newsletter Denver Public Schools sent to families Thursday. The new grading approach differs from , which did away with letter grades in favor of a credit-or-no-credit system.
District officials last week said that a system in which students either earned credit or no credit was more equitable because it wouldn’t penalize students for whom remote learning is difficult or even impossible because they lack the technology or time to participate.
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