New work habits marks on MS/HS report cards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what the work habits are - that is leftover babyish elementary crap. If my kid is getting As, he has good work habits period. We don’t need the extra feedback.

Ok well others need it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what the work habits are - that is leftover babyish elementary crap. If my kid is getting As, he has good work habits period. We don’t need the extra feedback.

If mine is getting Bs or Cs and has poor work habits, I definitely want to know that — so I can help DC learn better study habits before college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what the work habits are - that is leftover babyish elementary crap. If my kid is getting As, he has good work habits period. We don’t need the extra feedback.

If mine is getting Bs or Cs and has poor work habits, I definitely want to know that — so I can help DC learn better study habits before college.

A B or a C inherently means your child doesn’t have good study habits. You don’t need an additional comment to tell you that. Just look at the letter grade for God’s sake.

[Anonymous]

Do you know what I want? Actual feedback from the teacher instead of canned tidbits of things that are so generic that they could apply to every child. If you have feedback that you think I need to know, send me a message. If you don't, leave it blank and I will assume my child is doing fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what the work habits are - that is leftover babyish elementary crap. If my kid is getting As, he has good work habits period. We don’t need the extra feedback.

If mine is getting Bs or Cs and has poor work habits, I definitely want to know that — so I can help DC learn better study habits before college.

A B or a C inherently means your child doesn’t have good study habits. You don’t need an additional comment to tell you that. Just look at the letter grade for God’s sake.

Not all students are A students. I agree, a C probably means a kid has poor work habits, but I have a child who has a mild learning disability and anxiety. My kid has good study habits, but gets mixed As and Bs, and it's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what the work habits are - that is leftover babyish elementary crap. If my kid is getting As, he has good work habits period. We don’t need the extra feedback.

If mine is getting Bs or Cs and has poor work habits, I definitely want to know that — so I can help DC learn better study habits before college.

A B or a C inherently means your child doesn’t have good study habits. You don’t need an additional comment to tell you that. Just look at the letter grade for God’s sake.

Not so. In some cases, Bs and Cs could arise from an illness or from an undiagnosed learning disability or from something else. Many things might lead to a B or C.

[Anonymous]

Since when is a B a bad grade?

[Anonymous]

Teachers, please just autofill anything. This is beyond stupid. I have 2 in HS. One has an IEP in gen ed classes and one is in AP classes.

I don’t need a report card to tell me their work habits and don’t even look at the report card or comments anymore with SIS and all of the other communication.

This sounds a lot like elementary school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We were told about it at last week's TWD. It takes 2 minutes to auto fill down "S" for satisfactory and change the 3-5 kids to "N" (U? Whatever unsatisfactory is) who have a dozen missing assignments or who I have to redirect 14 times a period. I think it adds approximately 0 value though. If a kid is getting an "N", I've already communicated home about behaviors or recorded missing assignments in SIS.

I was surprised to learn it was new for some middle schools though. When I taught middle school it was always required.

Are you saying 2 minutes to complete for 150 students? Still 2 minutes too much, still worthless and doesn’t count the additional time to answer the questions the scoring will likely prompt from students and teachers.

Makes me wonder if it’s worth keeping at the ES level.

That all depends if they transfer over to a gradebook with real grades. This is all they had in the younger grades but it was subjective. I think anything subjective should go. It should be gone in 6th grade is the teachers have actual grades, like they do in MS and HS. They did at our school and posted on Schoology. They we don’t need this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were told about it at last week's TWD. It takes 2 minutes to auto fill down "S" for satisfactory and change the 3-5 kids to "N" (U? Whatever unsatisfactory is) who have a dozen missing assignments or who I have to redirect 14 times a period. I think it adds approximately 0 value though. If a kid is getting an "N", I've already communicated home about behaviors or recorded missing assignments in SIS.

I was surprised to learn it was new for some middle schools though. When I taught middle school it was always required.

Are you saying 2 minutes to complete for 150 students? Still 2 minutes too much, still worthless and doesn’t count the additional time to answer the questions the scoring will likely prompt from students and teachers.

Makes me wonder if it’s worth keeping at the ES level.

That all depends if they transfer over to a gradebook with real grades. This is all they had in the younger grades but it was subjective. I think anything subjective should go. It should be gone in 6th grade is the teachers have actual grades, like they do in MS and HS. They did at our school and posted on Schoology. They we don’t need this.

I assume the 6th graders taking algebra have to have a “real grade”. Does that show up differently from the other grades on their quarterly progress report?

I taught ES grade levels and would have preferred to have a percentage based grading system:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers, please just autofill anything. This is beyond stupid. I have 2 in HS. One has an IEP in gen ed classes and one is in AP classes.

I don’t need a report card to tell me their work habits and don’t even look at the report card or comments anymore with SIS and all of the other communication.

This sounds a lot like elementary school.

+100 Elementary school was too subjective. We don’t need teachers assigning random comments that may or may not even be true.

[Anonymous]

Did anybody’s teacher even make comments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what the work habits are - that is leftover babyish elementary crap. If my kid is getting As, he has good work habits period. We don’t need the extra feedback.

You couldn't be more wrong and naive if you tried

An A corresponds to good work habits period.

[Anonymous]

What does “CO” stand for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what the work habits are - that is leftover babyish elementary crap. If my kid is getting As, he has good work habits period. We don’t need the extra feedback.

If mine is getting Bs or Cs and has poor work habits, I definitely want to know that — so I can help DC learn better study habits before college.

A B or a C inherently means your child doesn’t have good study habits. You don’t need an additional comment to tell you that. Just look at the letter grade for God’s sake.

Not so. In some cases, Bs and Cs could arise from an illness or from an undiagnosed learning disability or from something else. Many things might lead to a B or C.

Illness? Seriously? Once your child makes up the work the grade should go back to baseline. If your baseline is a C, my guess is the work habits aren’t there.