High school Grades entered at last minute that impact 25-50% or more of grade for quarter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:History has bene updated!!!

Ok cool now get off SIS and go live your life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If teachers feel the final grade for the year is accurate, do teachers even give a crap regarding the grades along the way. Parents do. Not sure teachers do. I think they only care how things look at the end. Teachers are, generally, going to fit class grades into an accepted overall grade distribution.

???
As a teacher this makes no sense to me. The only way we GET a grade at the end of the year is by grading along the way. The end result is what it is and yes, it reflects the work the child put in, for better or worse. I swear this is the same idea the kids have, that we just make up number for them. You and they seem to not understand that the grade comes from the amount of work they turned in that demonstrates accurate mastery of the skills. If it’s an 80% that means they could independently demonstrate mastery of the skills with 80% accuracy. It doesn’t mean “I came up with this number because I dislike you.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TODAY IS A PERFECT DAY TO UPDATE Gradebook.

English grade hasn't been updated since December 8th
History Since December 19th
Geosystems since Jan 8h

January 8 was 11 days ago, and of those 11 days, 5 were either weekends, holidays, or snow days. If that was an A Day, that class has only met on:

January 10
January 12
January 17 (late start day)

Therefore, that is not even close to a problem. There isn't a graded assignment every day.

My kid has grades not updated since the first week of the quarter. Is that a "problem"?

The response above is about the parent complaining the one grade hasn't been updated since January 8. It is NOT about grades not being updates since the beginning of the quarter.

Perhaps you should take a few deep breaths, drain the piss from your Cheerios, and reread.

[Anonymous]

It’s infuriating. I’m checking at the end of every period to discover a teacher hasn’t put the grades in.

Every. Single. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s infuriating. I’m checking at the end of every period to discover a teacher hasn’t put the grades in.

Every. Single. Period.

What do you mean by period? Class block? Quarter? Semester? Hour?

[Anonymous]

I haven't recorded grades since January 11 because I only saw each class once last week. I wonder if any parents are furious with me the way so many parents here are.

Students' grades won't change much anyway because they've had 210 points of grades this quarter (400+ points this semester), and they only have 15 points left to be recorded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't recorded grades since January 11 because I only saw each class once last week. I wonder if any parents are furious with me the way so many parents here are.

Students' grades won't change much anyway because they've had 210 points of grades this quarter (400+ points this semester), and they only have 15 points left to be recorded.

I don’t care if parents are upset. I follow the grading policy. They’d also be freaking out if I graded their kid for mastery on something I had barely introduced and practiced because I saw them one time last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't recorded grades since January 11 because I only saw each class once last week. I wonder if any parents are furious with me the way so many parents here are.

Students' grades won't change much anyway because they've had 210 points of grades this quarter (400+ points this semester), and they only have 15 points left to be recorded.

I don’t care if parents are upset. I follow the grading policy. They’d also be freaking out if I graded their kid for mastery on something I had barely introduced and practiced because I saw them one time last week.

Sometimes, my son has to do some classwork and it they never grade it why? What the point of making a 14 year old do extra work when its not being graded?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't recorded grades since January 11 because I only saw each class once last week. I wonder if any parents are furious with me the way so many parents here are.

Students' grades won't change much anyway because they've had 210 points of grades this quarter (400+ points this semester), and they only have 15 points left to be recorded.

I don’t care if parents are upset. I follow the grading policy. They’d also be freaking out if I graded their kid for mastery on something I had barely introduced and practiced because I saw them one time last week.

Sometimes, my son has to do some classwork and it they never grade it why? What the point of making a 14 year old do extra work when its not being graded?

That’s called practice, friend. They do it so they learn on something that isn’t graded BEFORE it’s graded. You also did this growing up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TODAY IS A PERFECT DAY TO UPDATE Gradebook.

English grade hasn't been updated since December 8th
History Since December 19th
Geosystems since Jan 8h

January 8 was 11 days ago, and of those 11 days, 5 were either weekends, holidays, or snow days. If that was an A Day, that class has only met on:

January 10
January 12
January 17 (late start day)

Therefore, that is not even close to a problem. There isn't a graded assignment every day.

My kid has grades not updated since the first week of the quarter. Is that a "problem"?

The response above is about the parent complaining the one grade hasn't been updated since January 8. It is NOT about grades not being updates since the beginning of the quarter.

Perhaps you should take a few deep breaths, drain the piss from your Cheerios, and reread.

Perhaps you should F all the way off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
If teachers feel the final grade for the year is accurate, do teachers even give a crap regarding the grades along the way. Parents do. Not sure teachers do. I think they only care how things look at the end. Teachers are, generally, going to fit class grades into an accepted overall grade distribution.

???
As a teacher this makes no sense to me. The only way we GET a grade at the end of the year is by grading along the way. The end result is what it is and yes, it reflects the work the child put in, for better or worse. I swear this is the same idea the kids have, that we just make up number for them. You and they seem to not understand that the grade comes from the amount of work they turned in that demonstrates accurate mastery of the skills. If it’s an 80% that means they could independently demonstrate mastery of the skills with 80% accuracy. It doesn’t mean “I came up with this number because I dislike you.”

When parents/students see teachers aren't doing their job -- they think all kinds of things. We really do. Work isn't returned, Things aren't graded. We don't know what's going on. If you don't want crazy parents, there needs to be evidence that there's some sense to it. Maybe you're making it all up.

[Anonymous]

Maybe you just take stock of who in the class is a C student and assign that student a C. A known B student gets a B. And so on..

If you don't grade, don't go over tests or correct their work, this is the nonsense we believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If teachers feel the final grade for the year is accurate, do teachers even give a crap regarding the grades along the way. Parents do. Not sure teachers do. I think they only care how things look at the end. Teachers are, generally, going to fit class grades into an accepted overall grade distribution.

???
As a teacher this makes no sense to me. The only way we GET a grade at the end of the year is by grading along the way. The end result is what it is and yes, it reflects the work the child put in, for better or worse. I swear this is the same idea the kids have, that we just make up number for them. You and they seem to not understand that the grade comes from the amount of work they turned in that demonstrates accurate mastery of the skills. If it’s an 80% that means they could independently demonstrate mastery of the skills with 80% accuracy. It doesn’t mean “I came up with this number because I dislike you.”

When parents/students see teachers aren't doing their job -- they think all kinds of things. We really do. Work isn't returned, Things aren't graded. We don't know what's going on. If you don't want crazy parents, there needs to be evidence that there's some sense to it. Maybe you're making it all up.

This is insane. You should see every graded assessment that goes into the computation of the final grade in SIS. You really think that teachers conspire to come up with some random distribution of grades at the end of the school year for their 150 plus kids?

-A parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't recorded grades since January 11 because I only saw each class once last week. I wonder if any parents are furious with me the way so many parents here are.

Students' grades won't change much anyway because they've had 210 points of grades this quarter (400+ points this semester), and they only have 15 points left to be recorded.

I, as a parent, don't even register if grades aren't entered since January 11th. There are grades from November-beginning of November that have not been entered, but no missing assignments. There are teachers who haven't entered since mid December and it's mildly frustrating, but not worthy of posting. November though is nuts. They get tested on material and don't know how they did on assignments on that same material.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If teachers feel the final grade for the year is accurate, do teachers even give a crap regarding the grades along the way. Parents do. Not sure teachers do. I think they only care how things look at the end. Teachers are, generally, going to fit class grades into an accepted overall grade distribution.

???
As a teacher this makes no sense to me. The only way we GET a grade at the end of the year is by grading along the way. The end result is what it is and yes, it reflects the work the child put in, for better or worse. I swear this is the same idea the kids have, that we just make up number for them. You and they seem to not understand that the grade comes from the amount of work they turned in that demonstrates accurate mastery of the skills. If it’s an 80% that means they could independently demonstrate mastery of the skills with 80% accuracy. It doesn’t mean “I came up with this number because I dislike you.”

When parents/students see teachers aren't doing their job -- they think all kinds of things. We really do. Work isn't returned, Things aren't graded. We don't know what's going on. If you don't want crazy parents, there needs to be evidence that there's some sense to it. Maybe you're making it all up.

This can literally be about one of your kids’ teachers MAX or your kids aren’t being honest with you about work being returned. It’s possible they’re returning the work and doing corrections in class but not letting kids keep the test so they can’t pass it around. The notion you’re peddling that most of your kids teachers aren’t grading at all and aren’t giving the kids any feedback or returned work is not believable.