Too Lazy to Fail

The new system is called the equal interval scale. Essentially, it makes it harder to get a failing grade. It departs from the traditional A to F scale in which students receive F’s for scores below 59 percent. Instead, the scale awards F’s only for scores below 20 percent. [More]

Why not? It'll help bolster the aptitude test-based contention about how U.S. kids are doing so much worse than the rest of the world in math and science, and the resulting perception that more money needs to be poured into "education."

Besides, Fairfax has been using a variation to come up with political grades for years.