How are high schoolers finding the grading changes?

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

+1 Exactly! And many times it has nothing to do with the parent being involved at all. It’s a specific communication that the student can see in synergy so they know the teacher didn’t receive their submission and can sort it out before the deadline. Examples of times this has happened were a paper assignment was given when kid was on a field trip so it wasn’t in canvas, kid was verbally excused from a particular task but teacher forgot, a technical glitch prevented the electronic submission from reaching the teacher even though the kid had clicked submit, kid did paper assignment after absence and turned it in but teacher hadn’t put it in the original pile, etc. Numerous other examples. The teachers who promptly sync the grades are supportive and helpful. Many of these kids are actually trying their best not to miss due dates and deadlines. I encourage the teacher on here who waits until it’s too late to reconsider.

Technically I have one week(5 school days) to even grade the assignments in the first place. The Deadline is one week(5 school days) after the due date. I am not required, nor expected to have assignments graded by the next day or two. If you want to be really by the book, I am 100% in compliance to wait until the deadline to sync grades. It's not me being negligent or waiting too late.

[Anonymous]

My senior got 3 Bs the last quarter of their school year. Formerly straight A student. Part of that was senior slacking and part was due to the grading changes. I’m all for the grading changes—kids need to work hard for their grade. The former system was dumb and didn’t make sense.

[Anonymous]

I love it!

The old system was so unfair. My oldest graduated with the old system, and it certainly benefited him on paper because he was at the border between A and B many times, and ended up with As. However MCPS looked so unprofessional next to FCPS (who has A- and A+) and other school systems that maybe some universities just mentally recalibrated the MCPS students' GPA - which hurts kids who really earned their As.

My youngest grumbled a bit but I was adamant that the new system is much more fair to everyone. This year's seniors had a note on their transcripts that the grading policy changed.

All is well.

[Anonymous]

^ oh and for extra time, my oldest with an IEP had double time, which was unevenly applied anyway. So it's not new that accommodations would be entirely at the mercy of individual teachers...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love it!

The old system was so unfair. My oldest graduated with the old system, and it certainly benefited him on paper because he was at the border between A and B many times, and ended up with As. However MCPS looked so unprofessional next to FCPS (who has A- and A+) and other school systems that maybe some universities just mentally recalibrated the MCPS students' GPA - which hurts kids who really earned their As.

My youngest grumbled a bit but I was adamant that the new system is much more fair to everyone. This year's seniors had a note on their transcripts that the grading policy changed.

All is well.

All is not well, as my studious senior and their friends will tell you. It may become well, but I can promise you that many a senior this year, including those who normally work hard, felt the effects of changes especially as teachers grappled with all the changes(some well some not). It will likely get better but it is not all well yet. This due date/deadline madness is still crazy. It just needs to be one date. The only exemption is students with excused absence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love it!

The old system was so unfair. My oldest graduated with the old system, and it certainly benefited him on paper because he was at the border between A and B many times, and ended up with As. However MCPS looked so unprofessional next to FCPS (who has A- and A+) and other school systems that maybe some universities just mentally recalibrated the MCPS students' GPA - which hurts kids who really earned their As.

My youngest grumbled a bit but I was adamant that the new system is much more fair to everyone. This year's seniors had a note on their transcripts that the grading policy changed.

All is well.

All is not well, as my studious senior and their friends will tell you. It may become well, but I can promise you that many a senior this year, including those who normally work hard, felt the effects of changes especially as teachers grappled with all the changes(some well some not). It will likely get better but it is not all well yet. This due date/deadline madness is still crazy. It just needs to be one date. The only exemption is students with excused absence.

+1 My extremely diligent and high performing junior reports significant challenges. There are issues on both sides.

Some kids are struggling, or burning out, or feel entitled to As because they've been able to finagle As all along.

But teachers are also often being inconsistent or communicating poorly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

Sometimes you cannot even see the assignment to know if there is a zero. Or teachers wait weeks to grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

If the child did in fact complete the assignment but continues to forget to turn it in after 5 consecutive school days of it being verbally addressed, as well as in writing on daily slides that are not only shown in class, but also uploaded to Canvas every day, then that is a problem that is well beyond my control and honestly should not be the responsibility of the teacher. At some point they need to learn that they won't always have their hand held and sometimes the problem is them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

That’s what the Z is supposed to be for. The intention of the grading policy is to communicate this exact thing. Unfortunately you have some teachers (not most) who do not operate in the spirit of how the policy is intended (erring on the side of supporting students and communicating in a way students and parents can see grades in a timely fashion).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

If the child did in fact complete the assignment but continues to forget to turn it in after 5 consecutive school days of it being verbally addressed, as well as in writing on daily slides that are not only shown in class, but also uploaded to Canvas every day, then that is a problem that is well beyond my control and honestly should not be the responsibility of the teacher. At some point they need to learn that they won't always have their hand held and sometimes the problem is them.

You don’t know what other situations these kids are juggling. If they did the assignment and for whatever reason there is a barrier to actually getting it to the teacher, I’d hope the teacher would realize this particular student needs different scaffolding than what you are currently offering. Verbal reminders to a group don’t work for everyone. You are literally an educator. Use your skills to educate them on how to develop a system to turn in completed work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

If the child did in fact complete the assignment but continues to forget to turn it in after 5 consecutive school days of it being verbally addressed, as well as in writing on daily slides that are not only shown in class, but also uploaded to Canvas every day, then that is a problem that is well beyond my control and honestly should not be the responsibility of the teacher. At some point they need to learn that they won't always have their hand held and sometimes the problem is them.

I love.teachers who are so diligent, but we have at least one this year who mentions assignments once, doesn't upload lecture slides and announces retake on Sunday night for Monday lunch, announces big tests on 24 hour notice, and also does not explain the content well. Needless to say, the grade is suffering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

If the child did in fact complete the assignment but continues to forget to turn it in after 5 consecutive school days of it being verbally addressed, as well as in writing on daily slides that are not only shown in class, but also uploaded to Canvas every day, then that is a problem that is well beyond my control and honestly should not be the responsibility of the teacher. At some point they need to learn that they won't always have their hand held and sometimes the problem is them.

I love.teachers who are so diligent, but we have at least one this year who mentions assignments once, doesn't upload lecture slides and announces retake on Sunday night for Monday lunch, announces big tests on 24 hour notice, and also does not explain the content well. Needless to say, the grade is suffering

100% agree that many of my colleagues don't do things the way I do. I do my best to try to get everyone on board during the PLC but as a new teacher, it's hard to convince 10-20 year veterans that my way is better than their way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

Some kids have disabilities or struggle. Good parents support their kids. They would not need it if teachers did instead.

Sorry, Mom. I have a child like this too, but the teacher above says that she reminds students EVERY DAY, so don't accuse her of not supporting students. Train your child to write down assignments in a planner, and then you and he can check the list each day. ADHD requires that you build coping mechanisms, not be excused from deadlines.

[Anonymous]

Deadlines do not have to follow a plus 50% time accommodation. This because it’s not part of a classtime accommodation like due dates tend to be.