Minimum F

     So, apparently this is a thing. My principal wants us to use this policy on all students. It's pretty much a policy that tells me, no matter what a student turns in, I have to give him at least a 50% on his assignment. They've also told me I have to go back and change all student grades from quarter one to at least a 50%.
     While I have heard positives for this. Every student that fails my class has deserved it.  I hold make up days, they can retake any test, turn in late assignments, and I'm in my class before school, after school, and even during lunch.
     I'm apparently supposed to have less than 15% of students fail my class. I work in an inner city school, and while I have a ton if great kids, I have my fair share of shit-heads.  Kids I've seen three or four times, kids that when I ask are they going to work today just blatantly tell me no, kids who come to class high and can barely keep their eyes open... I could go on and on. Telling me to have less than 15% is basically telling me to just pass kids, even if they aren't ready.
     This, ladies and gentlemen, is why Nevada is last in education. No one cares about the students. It's all a numbers game. Everything that was wonderful about our old principal is being flushed down the drain by the new one. He makes teachers feel inadequite, unwelcome, and unappreciated.
     While I understand giving kids a fair shot. Just giving them a free 50% isn't teaching them anything.  I wonder if I just did 10% of all that's expected of me, I would get at least 50% of my paycheck.