This makes me wonder....it would be awesome if...for freshman year long courses...grades were reported out but not captured on transcripts until the end of the school year.  In December Ss would receive "grades", for Ss below a C conversations would be had between all stakeholders to create a success plan for the S.  But there is really incentive for all Ss...come May if the end grade is substantially higher than the December grade then it would trump that grade (so there would still be Sem1 and Sem2 transcript grades ).  Those not improving would simply have whatever grade documented for December along with the grade earned for semester 2.