First quarter grades

[Anonymous]

Grade inflation is mess and it's as if the kids didn't have enough to deal with we deincentivizes good grades, good behavior, and pledging allegiance to America. Further, the majority kids acts mentally challenged but the blame the teachers who have no support,no autonomy, and no enforceable school rules. Just endless busy work and blame blame blame to internalize. Its a profession that is very unstable and full of burnout. I do not recommend.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wonder - After 11/4, can a teacher go back to change the 1st quarter grades for any reason?

There is a grade modification form that can be processed to correct an error within 45 days of the end of the quarter. It involves admin signing off. I don’t know when teachers stop being able to correct the grades themselves and when the form becomes required, but there is a process to correct bonafide errors.

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Anonymous wrote:Are grades final at this point? What we are seeing in parent view are final grades and shouldn’t really change at this point? Looks like our HS is still doing 50% for All Task grades which surprised me since I thought MCPS got rid of it

It’s 50% if you turn something in. 0 if you don’t.

At the highschool where I teach, we are strongly encouraged to give 50% for assignments that were never turned in

Strongly encouraged by who and why? How is it helpful to students?

Let’s just say we are coerced by administrators and principal to give 50% for assignments that were never submitted. The administrators at my school are masters of spin. I don’t believe they really care about the students all that much as most of them are focused on moving up the ladder as fast as possible

I know you can’t name the school, but what are the demographics and/or reputation of the school? From what you know, is this pretty common among all schools?

The poster is a troll

Different PP but I’m required to give 50% at my school. It’s setting them up for a rude awakening. Middle school is where they should be learning time management. If they aren’t in a high school course, then a couple of zeros usually gets kids on a path of learning how to use time better in class. It won’t affect their high school gpa and better study skills will only benefit them as they move through their academic career. But what do I know. I’m just a lowly teacher that sees the lack of effort now. Students think they are all set for high school with inflated grades. They should go to standards based and lower class sizes if they are worried about students not passing. Right now we are just scooting them out the door. This is the future that will be taking care of us and we are setting them up for a much harder time. Admin at MCPS are more worried about themselves and optics. All are trash IMO. Sorry. But not really.

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Anonymous wrote:DC had an excused absence at the beginning of December and did the assignment the first day back. The teacher never bothered to grade it. I followed up with them at interims and again the week before the end of Q1 and was assured they would do this. They didn't. Should I report them to the administration or just let it go? It does seem wrong that a kid's grade gets penalized for being sick, but what should I do?

High school or MS? High school bring it up, MS let it go.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a junior and a teacher seems to have decided at the last minute not to grade a major project for the quarter that would have impacted her grade. There was no announcement. The teacher just didn't grade it for this quarter. Is this allowed?

Is there anything to do at this point?

If the teacher has enough grades in the grade book for quarter 1, I don’t think you can do anything. Your dd could ask teacher nicely to please include project in quarter 2 grades. I’m assuming that is what the teacher plans on doing.

No there are not the required number of grades for Q1. Even with the major project they still don't have enough assignments as per the regulations. I'm sure she'll include in Q2 but that's not right. That's not what the students were told.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a junior and a teacher seems to have decided at the last minute not to grade a major project for the quarter that would have impacted her grade. There was no announcement. The teacher just didn't grade it for this quarter. Is this allowed?

Is there anything to do at this point?

If the teacher has enough grades in the grade book for quarter 1, I don’t think you can do anything. Your dd could ask teacher nicely to please include project in quarter 2 grades. I’m assuming that is what the teacher plans on doing.

No there are not the required number of grades for Q1. Even with the major project they still don't have enough assignments as per the regulations. I'm sure she'll include in Q2 but that's not right. That's not what the students were told.

I think if a teacher doesn't feel like grading Q1 assignments and it makes the number of assignments go below what is required that's something to report. This is a very basic requirement for teachers and one that should be followed.

[Anonymous]

Our child's teacher got an extension for grading due to being sick so there is a mechanism for taking longer to grade that can be invoked.

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Anonymous wrote:Our child's teacher got an extension for grading due to being sick so there is a mechanism for taking longer to grade that can be invoked.

Interesting. We were told that report cards had to be posted by 12 pm yesterday. Our school always sets an earlier deadline than the MCPS general deadline. If we don’t have everything finalized and posted by 12 pm, we start getting nasty emails from admin

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Anonymous wrote:Our child's teacher got an extension for grading due to being sick so there is a mechanism for taking longer to grade that can be invoked.

Interesting. We were told that report cards had to be posted by 12 pm yesterday. Our school always sets an earlier deadline than the MCPS general deadline. If we don’t have everything finalized and posted by 12 pm, we start getting nasty emails from admin

At least your admins do something