Our district shut down a little over a week ago and started pushing out lessons for students to complete at home. Yesterday there were a couple of somewhat vague emails from classroom teachers to students indicating that new work submitted after the physical shutdown of the schools wouldn't adversely affect existing grades (except in dual credit classes). I called a principal to find out what the rationale was. It turns out that the state is behind this. Apparently if they can't push out lessons that advance all students at the same rate, including students with IEPs and other specialized plans and hit all the required elements of all plans, then we're not legally permitted to advance anyone in the school district.

Basically teachers can push out all the lessons they want. If students do better homeschooling and can raise their existing grades, then they'll benefit. Otherwise students who are happy with their current grades can ignore the online lessons and keep their existing grades, even if they don't do another ounce of work for the next two months.

Is this something that's unique to our wonderful department of education here in my state, or is this going on everywhere else as well?