Oh, brother.

“Students [would] have a chance to recover,” Martin said. “Getting a bad grade or having a bad day does not mean you are a failure. This is about hope.”

Of course. What isn’t about hope these days? Reality is supplanted by wishes as teachers dream about what their students might have scored on the test they didn’t complete, what grade their pupils, in a better world, could have garnered on the homework assignment they neglected to turn in.