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Time and money questions: do we give failing students course after course, in addition to their full load? Or force them to add time to their four years of college until they pass an exam? When would we give such an exam-during their junior year? Do writing skills need retesting in senior year? How would we test 250 seniors, and what would we do with those who failed? We would be valuing the test above teaching and learning. Who would be hired to teach chronic failers? What would this continual focus on failure mean to students and teachers? Sections full of failing students have ensured jobs for English teachers at the nearby state college, but no one I've met teaches them with any passion or interest. Besides, at Shakespeare College of the Communicable Arts, we could never support it financially. (This is a little more interesting as an issue, but again, not one for which I want to make room at the center of my essay.)
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