Is hard to schedule just one Test a day

[Anonymous]

It seems that my DC seems to have 2 Test on the same day, how common is this?

[Anonymous]

Sounds normal to me. Especially near mid-term and end of quarter.

[Anonymous]

At the secondary level it's very common.

[Anonymous]

I do not expect secondary teachers to coordinate their exams with other teachers. That would be close to impossible.

In ES, it would be nice if they only had one assessment but I don’t care much about ES grades so not a priority for me. It also gets them used to having multiple, which will definitely happen in secondary school.

[Anonymous]

Wait until they have two AP's on the same day. It's not an allowed reason to use the make up day, and last year, they forced the kids to take those two tests ON The make up day b/c someone thought Eid was more important than AP exam day.

[Anonymous]

This would be absolutely impossible to police unless they made Monday = math test, Tuesday = science test, wednesday = elective tests, etc. With block, that would be a disaster.

Some kids are taking 2 sciences or two maths, some are in algebra, others geometry, others algebra 2 their freshman year. There is zero way to coordinate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait until they have two AP's on the same day. It's not an allowed reason to use the make up day, and last year, they forced the kids to take those two tests ON The make up day b/c someone thought Eid was more important than AP exam day.

I fail to see the problem. Your kid got extra days to study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This would be absolutely impossible to police unless they made Monday = math test, Tuesday = science test, wednesday = elective tests, etc. With block, that would be a disaster.

Some kids are taking 2 sciences or two maths, some are in algebra, others geometry, others algebra 2 their freshman year. There is zero way to coordinate.

My son’s private school has a 6 day schedule. Day 1 is a lecture day and that’s when tests occur. Each subject area has lectures on different days so math might be day 1, English is day 2 and so on. Because of this, he rarely has more than one test a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait until they have two AP's on the same day. It's not an allowed reason to use the make up day, and last year, they forced the kids to take those two tests ON The make up day b/c someone thought Eid was more important than AP exam day.

Happy Eid

[Anonymous]

Think of how many combinations of classes kids take... it would be nearly impossible to coordinate this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that my DC seems to have 2 Test on the same day, how common is this?

Next week my kid has 5 tests. And 2 tests on 2 days. So Monday - test 1, Tuesday - tests 2 and 3, Thursday - tests 4 and 5. This is 9th grade

[Anonymous]

Yes, it is too hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This would be absolutely impossible to police unless they made Monday = math test, Tuesday = science test, wednesday = elective tests, etc. With block, that would be a disaster.

Some kids are taking 2 sciences or two maths, some are in algebra, others geometry, others algebra 2 their freshman year. There is zero way to coordinate.

My son’s private school has a 6 day schedule. Day 1 is a lecture day and that’s when tests occur. Each subject area has lectures on different days so math might be day 1, English is day 2 and so on. Because of this, he rarely has more than one test a day.

So if I finish teaching my unit on Monday but my subject’s test day isn’t until Friday I…put in 3 days of fluff? Begin the next unit and just tell kids to keep current on old material? That seems exceedingly arbitrary. It’s not that big of a deal to take two exams in one day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This would be absolutely impossible to police unless they made Monday = math test, Tuesday = science test, wednesday = elective tests, etc. With block, that would be a disaster.

Some kids are taking 2 sciences or two maths, some are in algebra, others geometry, others algebra 2 their freshman year. There is zero way to coordinate.

My son’s private school has a 6 day schedule. Day 1 is a lecture day and that’s when tests occur. Each subject area has lectures on different days so math might be day 1, English is day 2 and so on. Because of this, he rarely has more than one test a day.

So if I finish teaching my unit on Monday but my subject’s test day isn’t until Friday I…put in 3 days of fluff? Begin the next unit and just tell kids to keep current on old material? That seems exceedingly arbitrary. It’s not that big of a deal to take two exams in one day.

No, you actually plan out the entire unit. You might finish a day or two early and then review but most teachers don't just teach and hope things work out. Each unit is planned out and I'd better be on the lesson on the day I'm supposed to or hell will break loose.

[Anonymous]

The team loves to stack them on Fridays. This is the norm at our elementary school since first grade.