Retaking tests in high school

[Anonymous]

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Well, I certainly hope the surgeon who is doing my surgery next month doesn't subscribe to this philosophy.

Really? If there is a complication - which DOES, of course, happen - you want your surgeon to just get a bad review and then move on to the next surgery? Or would you rather he fix his errors and keep working until he has mastered the issue?

Yes complications happen, but anything due to the fault of surgeon error is grounds for a lawsuit. So, yes, I would want him to get it right the first time. No second chances.

[Anonymous]

Hmm..seems like doctors who fail their medical boards retake them right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not enabling. Enlightened teachers and school districts allow this. If you are an educator and at all up on modern educational theory, you'll know that the focus is enabling a kid to learn material, even if it takes multiple tries.

If you're a teacher, then report back, and I'll explain why you're wrong - from one professional to another.

If you're not an educator, then you have no right to chime in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Well, I certainly hope the surgeon who is doing my surgery next month doesn't subscribe to this philosophy.

Really? If there is a complication - which DOES, of course, happen - you want your surgeon to just get a bad review and then move on to the next surgery? Or would you rather he fix his errors and keep working until he has mastered the issue?

NP. If he's that bad at getting things right the first time, I want him to have been weeded out before he ever got a degree. Medical school is not the time to experiment with pedagogy. If you can't pass the tests the first time, goodbye. There are probably 5 equally capable people for the seat you took.

Nor do I want the guy building the bridges I'm driving on or the gal who calculated where to put the load-bearing walls in my house to get multiple mess-ups, or the lawyer who's handling my vehicular manslaughter trial. There is a point to rewarding those who get the right answers the first time. We want kids to master the critical material but in spite of what we were told at age 6, not everyone is cut out to do everything and some weeding out is necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Well, I certainly hope the surgeon who is doing my surgery next month doesn't subscribe to this philosophy.

Really? If there is a complication - which DOES, of course, happen - you want your surgeon to just get a bad review and then move on to the next surgery? Or would you rather he fix his errors and keep working until he has mastered the issue?

Yes complications happen, but anything due to the fault of surgeon error is grounds for a lawsuit. So, yes, I would want him to get it right the first time. No second chances.

You probably only took the test on lawsuits once, failed and then nobody made you study for it again so you could actually learn the law.

Doctors make errors all the time and are not sued.... because they are only sued if there is negligence... not if they make a mistake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Well, I certainly hope the surgeon who is doing my surgery next month doesn't subscribe to this philosophy.

Really? If there is a complication - which DOES, of course, happen - you want your surgeon to just get a bad review and then move on to the next surgery? Or would you rather he fix his errors and keep working until he has mastered the issue?

NP. If he's that bad at getting things right the first time, I want him to have been weeded out before he ever got a degree. Medical school is not the time to experiment with pedagogy. If you can't pass the tests the first time, goodbye. There are probably 5 equally capable people for the seat you took.

Nor do I want the guy building the bridges I'm driving on or the gal who calculated where to put the load-bearing walls in my house to get multiple mess-ups, or the lawyer who's handling my vehicular manslaughter trial. There is a point to rewarding those who get the right answers the first time. We want kids to master the critical material but in spite of what we were told at age 6, not everyone is cut out to do everything and some weeding out is necessary.

Tell Microsoft that, they roll out products with tons of issues all the time and then send out patches. If they didn't do that we would still be at Windows 3.1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm..seems like doctors who fail their medical boards retake them right?

Lawyers retake the bar exam multiple times.

Driving test, you can take multiple times.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To me it is far better than allowing random extra credit to bring up a grade..

No. It's legalized cheating. The kids will never learn how to study for a test if you continually give them second and third chances. My MCPS friends are always complaining about the new dumbed down curriculum. Sad.

Nobody wants kids to learn how to study for a test... nobody takes test at work. They want them to learn the material.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Well, I certainly hope the surgeon who is doing my surgery next month doesn't subscribe to this philosophy.

Really? If there is a complication - which DOES, of course, happen - you want your surgeon to just get a bad review and then move on to the next surgery? Or would you rather he fix his errors and keep working until he has mastered the issue?

NP. If he's that bad at getting things right the first time, I want him to have been weeded out before he ever got a degree. Medical school is not the time to experiment with pedagogy. If you can't pass the tests the first time, goodbye. There are probably 5 equally capable people for the seat you took.

Nor do I want the guy building the bridges I'm driving on or the gal who calculated where to put the load-bearing walls in my house to get multiple mess-ups, or the lawyer who's handling my vehicular manslaughter trial. There is a point to rewarding those who get the right answers the first time. We want kids to master the critical material but in spite of what we were told at age 6, not everyone is cut out to do everything and some weeding out is necessary.

Nobody is perfect..not one single person. And I don't see how being allowed to repeat one quiz a quarter mean you are bad at getting things right the first time. It means you had a headache one day or missed something in class or the teacher did not communicate it well/

[Anonymous]

I had an interesting conversation about school with my son's MCPS friends just now. They told me that they have another week and a half but most classes are "done." They are basically doing "nothing" in these classes because they already had their last "assessment." So it's easy street for MCPS high school students for the next couple of weeks. Love how our tax dollars are at work.

[Anonymous]

My kids seem to have final projects in most classes in place of the finals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had an interesting conversation about school with my son's MCPS friends just now. They told me that they have another week and a half but most classes are "done." They are basically doing "nothing" in these classes because they already had their last "assessment." So it's easy street for MCPS high school students for the next couple of weeks. Love how our tax dollars are at work.

God, I wish this were true. My high schooler is still plugging away in all 7 classes. AP class still has an upcoming unit test and group project.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had an interesting conversation about school with my son's MCPS friends just now. They told me that they have another week and a half but most classes are "done." They are basically doing "nothing" in these classes because they already had their last "assessment." So it's easy street for MCPS high school students for the next couple of weeks. Love how our tax dollars are at work.

God, I wish this were true. My high schooler is still plugging away in all 7 classes. AP class still has an upcoming unit test and group project.

good

as it should be

sorry you're feeling sorry for your little petunia - But that's life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had an interesting conversation about school with my son's MCPS friends just now. They told me that they have another week and a half but most classes are "done." They are basically doing "nothing" in these classes because they already had their last "assessment." So it's easy street for MCPS high school students for the next couple of weeks. Love how our tax dollars are at work.

God, I wish this were true. My high schooler is still plugging away in all 7 classes. AP class still has an upcoming unit test and group project.

Well, I spoke to two kids this evening. They said only two classes are still active. All others are "done." This is a W school which is highly regarded. These kids are taking AP classes. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had an interesting conversation about school with my son's MCPS friends just now. They told me that they have another week and a half but most classes are "done." They are basically doing "nothing" in these classes because they already had their last "assessment." So it's easy street for MCPS high school students for the next couple of weeks. Love how our tax dollars are at work.

God, I wish this were true. My high schooler is still plugging away in all 7 classes. AP class still has an upcoming unit test and group project.

Well, I spoke to two kids this evening. They said only two classes are still active. All others are "done." This is a W school which is highly regarded. These kids are taking AP classes. Sad.

And what pray tell are your children doing in private school now until the end of the year?