These policies can help to improve the mental health of students
all or nothing educational policies fucked me up so bad in school. classes where being late was counted as an absence, where late assignments were not accepted, where incomplete assignments were counted as late which were not accepted.
like, sometimes I’d go “fuck I can’t make it to class on time” and so just… skip. Or I’d go “can I finish this by the deadline? I don’t think I can. Might as well not do it at all.”
It promoted giving up, and it’s habit I’ve spent most of my adult life breaking. I have spent years re-training myself to understand that something is better than nothing, and that every little bit counts.
