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		WalterBright on Nov 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching... Redoing things until you understand them thoroughly is the point of homework assignments. The test is supposed to assess if the material was learned, not teach it.

thioordc on Nov 12, 2021 [–]

Yeah but being able to retake them just does both well! It’s purely better in most cases

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