A grading system that is starting to be adopted by high schools. Basically, homework doesn't count, only tests. Supposedly it is to prepare students for college, but it just results in failing grades. Seriously, this system is stupid. Even honor roll students are failing.
Guy 1: I'm failing Algebra 2. I missed one question on my test and my grade dropped from a B to a D. I hate Standards Based Grading.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)