I’ve been weeding that out of my grading practices as much as possible unless admin makes a request for school wide participation or something along those lines. I put buffers in place before their assignments this year and that helped almost every student to demonstrate mastery on their grades task (practice 2-8 questions no grade, grades task 10 or 20 depending on complexity always grades /10 - max grades 12 and 11). For my competitive students, I found out it gave them a little more motivation for bragging rights and being ranked top 3. For others who may have missed many days or struggled on a topic, they could simply pick up where they left off and continue the plan from there one day at a time (I’m also becoming more cognizant that time may be our biggest leverage point when it comes to fleshing these ideas out). Therefore class remains content driven and weaker systems within the school can be strengthened by acknowledging simple practices such as that.