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I first heard the term equitable grading during the COVID-19 remote learning period and during hybrid instruction. Our district used it as the justification to create a 50% grading floor. The idea was that if an F is 50% then there is no reason to give a student less than 50%. This obviously didn’t take into account that 50% of 0 should still be 0, but nobody consulted teachers on the matter. Making the floor 50% made it easier for students to make a mad dash for graduation a

As a “Millennial,” I am part of the generation that bridged the gap into the digital age. I was born in the time before a desktop computer was in every home, and you could still find pay phones to make collect calls. I graduated from high school with an iPhone that could make phone calls and search the internet from anywhere in the world. I can remember my teachers telling me to memorize math formulas because “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time,” while in the n