"diverse perspectives" portion of project grade

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Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

+1000000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

What? No. Wrong. I don't know if you know you are wrong and don't care, or if you are just making things up, but assuming folks are right and this is a 6th grade parent, the rubric came home on paper.

Even if it didn't, OP admitted to heavily editing her child's work and to checking the rubric herself. Clearly she had access.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You had the rubric - you should have followed it. Also homework is not a parent project in my house.

+1. Diverse viewpoints can have different meanings. Did they use more than one or two sources? Just they use sources that tried to explain both sides of an argument? Why are you on here? This is between the teacher and student. Parents arent in the class. The student should have asked if they needed clarification.

A diverse thought could be “calories in vs calories out” vs “low carb” to lose weight.

This was my first thought, based on the kinds of things my kids get assigned. Sounds like a critique of research methods, not "diversity" in the sense of DEI.

People get so triggered by the word diverse their brain pauses and can’t think.

It’s pathetic.

MAGA red meat!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds stupid, which is par for the course with MCPS.

Diversity is a religion with these folks.

Actually, if someone is using ChatGPT or the like to write their papers, the Ai presently is really bad at diversity and diverse perspectives. I think this may be a brilliant move by a teacher to make sure that the students are engaging in a little critical thinking on their own. We like to look for things that the tech can't do and double down on those things in assignments.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds stupid, which is par for the course with MCPS.

Diversity is a religion with these folks.

You and OP are the ones who sound stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

Who doesn’t. That’s what a parent is supposed to do. Confirm they didn’t work and be available for support if needed. It builds a good healthy supporting relationship with your child if they know you are invested in their success, even notionally like just asking if they need help and got it all done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

Who doesn’t. That’s what a parent is supposed to do. Confirm they didn’t work and be available for support if needed. It builds a good healthy supporting relationship with your child if they know you are invested in their success, even notionally like just asking if they need help and got it all done.

Most parents? Parents can offer help if the child asks, but it's not the parents' homework, it's the child's homework.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

Who doesn’t. That’s what a parent is supposed to do. Confirm they didn’t work and be available for support if needed. It builds a good healthy supporting relationship with your child if they know you are invested in their success, even notionally like just asking if they need help and got it all done.

Most parents? Parents can offer help if the child asks, but it's not the parents' homework, it's the child's homework.

Right. No one said for the parent to do the work. Offering help in understanding the work and confirming they did the work is not doing the work. Elementary and middle school kids sometimes don’t even understand homework.

[Anonymous]

If you don't understand the instructions, ask your teacher.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

Who doesn’t. That’s what a parent is supposed to do. Confirm they didn’t work and be available for support if needed. It builds a good healthy supporting relationship with your child if they know you are invested in their success, even notionally like just asking if they need help and got it all done.

Most parents? Parents can offer help if the child asks, but it's not the parents' homework, it's the child's homework.

Right. No one said for the parent to do the work. Offering help in understanding the work and confirming they did the work is not doing the work. Elementary and middle school kids sometimes don’t even understand homework.

And parents, at least based on the OP, who seems to have misunderstood the assignment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

Who doesn’t. That’s what a parent is supposed to do. Confirm they didn’t work and be available for support if needed. It builds a good healthy supporting relationship with your child if they know you are invested in their success, even notionally like just asking if they need help and got it all done.

Most parents? Parents can offer help if the child asks, but it's not the parents' homework, it's the child's homework.

Right. No one said for the parent to do the work. Offering help in understanding the work and confirming they did the work is not doing the work. Elementary and middle school kids sometimes don’t even understand homework.

And parents, at least based on the OP, who seems to have misunderstood the assignment.

We don’t actually know that do we?

Different opinions are great though.

I will continue to support my young kids in their studies in a reasonable manner.

The lack of parental support is the largest reason for the gaps in education today, IMO.

Have a good evening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

Who doesn’t. That’s what a parent is supposed to do. Confirm they didn’t work and be available for support if needed. It builds a good healthy supporting relationship with your child if they know you are invested in their success, even notionally like just asking if they need help and got it all done.

Most parents? Parents can offer help if the child asks, but it's not the parents' homework, it's the child's homework.

Right. No one said for the parent to do the work. Offering help in understanding the work and confirming they did the work is not doing the work. Elementary and middle school kids sometimes don’t even understand homework.

And parents, at least based on the OP, who seems to have misunderstood the assignment.

We don’t actually know that do we?

Different opinions are great though.

I will continue to support my young kids in their studies in a reasonable manner.

The lack of parental support is the largest reason for the gaps in education today, IMO.

Have a good evening.

We do know that the OP misunderstood the OP's child's assignment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

Who doesn’t. That’s what a parent is supposed to do. Confirm they didn’t work and be available for support if needed. It builds a good healthy supporting relationship with your child if they know you are invested in their success, even notionally like just asking if they need help and got it all done.

Most parents? Parents can offer help if the child asks, but it's not the parents' homework, it's the child's homework.

Right. No one said for the parent to do the work. Offering help in understanding the work and confirming they did the work is not doing the work. Elementary and middle school kids sometimes don’t even understand homework.

And parents, at least based on the OP, who seems to have misunderstood the assignment.

We don’t actually know that do we?

Different opinions are great though.

I will continue to support my young kids in their studies in a reasonable manner.

The lack of parental support is the largest reason for the gaps in education today, IMO.

Have a good evening.

We do know that the OP misunderstood the OP's child's assignment.

Wait so OP responded with the teachers intent behind the statement in the rubric?

MCPS is interested in diverse perspectives explicitly in the k-12 curriculum as it relates to the anti-racist audit that was conducted recently and found that they would like the curriculum to be more diverse and noted the following finding in the equity audit tool as latent in a large percentage: “Teachers are equipped with the knowledge and skills to incorporate racially and ethnically diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions into their classroom pedagogy.”

It’s entirely possible the teacher expected DEI-like content. Or did the teacher respond to this post?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a related problem here -- since class information is in Google Drive/Classroom and not on paper or shared with parents' Synergy/Canvas, parents can't check in their kid's work without logging into the kid's account and sifting through all the apps. Much harder than going over the papers in a folder.

So parents are boxed out of checking their kid's work and making sure the kid follows the instructions. But that's a win for equity -- more fair to students with parents who don't care about schoolwork.

Why are you checking your child's homework?

Who doesn’t. That’s what a parent is supposed to do. Confirm they didn’t work and be available for support if needed. It builds a good healthy supporting relationship with your child if they know you are invested in their success, even notionally like just asking if they need help and got it all done.

Most parents? Parents can offer help if the child asks, but it's not the parents' homework, it's the child's homework.

Right. No one said for the parent to do the work. Offering help in understanding the work and confirming they did the work is not doing the work. Elementary and middle school kids sometimes don’t even understand homework.

And parents, at least based on the OP, who seems to have misunderstood the assignment.

We don’t actually know that do we?

Different opinions are great though.

I will continue to support my young kids in their studies in a reasonable manner.

The lack of parental support is the largest reason for the gaps in education today, IMO.

Have a good evening.

We do know that the OP misunderstood the OP's child's assignment.

Wait so OP responded with the teachers intent behind the statement in the rubric?

MCPS is interested in diverse perspectives explicitly in the k-12 curriculum as it relates to the anti-racist audit that was conducted recently and found that they would like the curriculum to be more diverse and noted the following finding in the equity audit tool as latent in a large percentage: “Teachers are equipped with the knowledge and skills to incorporate racially and ethnically diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions into their classroom pedagogy.”

It’s entirely possible the teacher expected DEI-like content. Or did the teacher respond to this post?

That’s not quite what it means. The TEACHER is encouraged to bring differing viewpoints into the classroom. Meaning they should be embracing different cultures, persons of stature, important events, ect that traditionally have been omitted from school curricula.