Scores rise after Mount Olive Township school district eliminates 'D' grade
Published: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 2:45 PM Updated: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 2:54 PM
MOUNT OLIVE TOWNSHIP -- The township school district says that eliminating the "D'' grade for students has been a success.
The new policy in Mount Olive, which took effect in September, raised the failure score to anything under a 70.
Larrie Reynolds, superintendent of the school district in Morris County, said the number of failing grades for district middle and high school students dropped 42.5 percent in the first quarter. And more students earned A's and B's.
Reynolds had proposed the policy last summer, saying he was tired of kids getting credit for not learning.
But some school officials and teachers say it's too early to declare the policy a success, since its