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I read a post on Roger's personal Blog called Retakes and it was about how he has been giving the option for retakes and some people do them but some of them don't even do any better and there is a few that do worse. This is how I responded:

I think that it is good that you give your students the choice to have retakes but if no one does it then it is kind of a waste. I Like retakes because if I get a bad grade on something that I don't get then I can go in and talk to my teacher and take it again. Retakes are good not only for getting your grade up but they can help kids make sure that they understand the material. Also it is a waste of the kids time when they come in and don't even do much better than they did before. It is probably because they just hope that because they have seen the test before they can do better on it. Whenever I go in for a retake I study more to make sure that I can do better, or I try to study in a different way to see if it can help more than the previous. Maybe you can Have a couple quizes where if kids do bad on them they have to retake them until they do good that way they would have to find a way to do good on them and they would eventually get used to doing it.