Deal Summer Reading Assignment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, at Deal every assignment is graded, including summer. And if your student doesn’t turn in an assignment, automatic zero on Aspen. Which is hard to come back from in terms of average grade for the course.

Of course, you *may* have some leeway as to whether it’s actually due first day of school. (Maybe end of first week of school?). But that’s not for you to decide.

In my experience, much easier to have child read book, finish assignment on time.

Bull...this is not true, and zero's dont count as Zero in Aspen any more for all of DCPS, so there is also that! Many kids don't do the assignments; however, saying that there is still plenty of time for your kid to do it.

huh?
The zeros do count as zeros at Deal.
Stop making things up.

Yes, they do count. Kids get zeroes.

Come on, people. This assignment is cake. It’s a gift. An easy few points to start the year. Didn’t your kids’ ES yave a summer reading assignment for fifth grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, at Deal every assignment is graded, including summer. And if your student doesn’t turn in an assignment, automatic zero on Aspen. Which is hard to come back from in terms of average grade for the course.

Of course, you *may* have some leeway as to whether it’s actually due first day of school. (Maybe end of first week of school?). But that’s not for you to decide.

In my experience, much easier to have child read book, finish assignment on time.

Bull...this is not true, and zero's dont count as Zero in Aspen any more for all of DCPS, so there is also that! Many kids don't do the assignments; however, saying that there is still plenty of time for your kid to do it.

huh?
The zeros do count as zeros at Deal.
Stop making things up.

I'm 11:02 above. Yes, if you don't do it, it would be a zero. But, again, there are three components to a grade. There are summatives, formatives, and homework. The homework counts as 5% of the total grade. I'm locked out of th lovely aspen right now so I can't look it up, but it's something close to summatives counting for 55% of the grade and formatives as 45%. Summatives are big tests or big projects. You might have 3-4 or more of those over the course of the grading period, so each one carries more weight. You'll have 10 or so formatives (and also on aspen someplace there's a description of summatives and formatives). Over a 9 week grading period, there will probably be at least 1 homework assignment a week, so plus the summer reading you're looking at 10 grades, that, averaged out, count as 5% of your grade. You can easily get a zero on one and it won't matter, mathematically, that much to your overall score. It will not affect your final percentage by even a percentage point. Not doing summer reading is not going outtake your grade from an A- to a B+. It's just not. Math does not lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, at Deal every assignment is graded, including summer. And if your student doesn’t turn in an assignment, automatic zero on Aspen. Which is hard to come back from in terms of average grade for the course.

Of course, you *may* have some leeway as to whether it’s actually due first day of school. (Maybe end of first week of school?). But that’s not for you to decide.

In my experience, much easier to have child read book, finish assignment on time.

Bull...this is not true, and zero's dont count as Zero in Aspen any more for all of DCPS, so there is also that! Many kids don't do the assignments; however, saying that there is still plenty of time for your kid to do it.

huh?
The zeros do count as zeros at Deal.
Stop making things up.

Yes, they do count. Kids get zeroes.

Come on, people. This assignment is cake. It’s a gift. An easy few points to start the year. Didn’t your kids’ ES yave a summer reading assignment for fifth grade?

No. We never has summer assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, at Deal every assignment is graded, including summer. And if your student doesn’t turn in an assignment, automatic zero on Aspen. Which is hard to come back from in terms of average grade for the course.

Of course, you *may* have some leeway as to whether it’s actually due first day of school. (Maybe end of first week of school?). But that’s not for you to decide.

In my experience, much easier to have child read book, finish assignment on time.

Bull...this is not true, and zero's dont count as Zero in Aspen any more for all of DCPS, so there is also that! Many kids don't do the assignments; however, saying that there is still plenty of time for your kid to do it.

huh?
The zeros do count as zeros at Deal.
Stop making things up.

Yes, they do count. Kids get zeroes.

Come on, people. This assignment is cake. It’s a gift. An easy few points to start the year. Didn’t your kids’ ES yave a summer reading assignment for fifth grade?

No. We never has summer assignments.

Well, welcome to middle school

And if you have younger kids at your ES, you should tell them to step it up for fifth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, at Deal every assignment is graded, including summer. And if your student doesn’t turn in an assignment, automatic zero on Aspen. Which is hard to come back from in terms of average grade for the course.

Of course, you *may* have some leeway as to whether it’s actually due first day of school. (Maybe end of first week of school?). But that’s not for you to decide.

In my experience, much easier to have child read book, finish assignment on time.

You may want to bring the pros and cons of no-zero policies to the attention of your administration. Google no zero policy. You are right, they are impossible to recover from. -an educator

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, at Deal every assignment is graded, including summer. And if your student doesn’t turn in an assignment, automatic zero on Aspen. Which is hard to come back from in terms of average grade for the course.

Of course, you *may* have some leeway as to whether it’s actually due first day of school. (Maybe end of first week of school?). But that’s not for you to decide.

In my experience, much easier to have child read book, finish assignment on time.

Bull...this is not true, and zero's dont count as Zero in Aspen any more for all of DCPS, so there is also that! Many kids don't do the assignments; however, saying that there is still plenty of time for your kid to do it.

huh?
The zeros do count as zeros at Deal.
Stop making things up.

Yes, they do count. Kids get zeroes.

Come on, people. This assignment is cake. It’s a gift. An easy few points to start the year. Didn’t your kids’ ES yave a summer reading assignment for fifth grade?

DCPS got rid of zeros, teachers can enter a zero but it doesn't count as a zero in the gradebook, I can't be bothered to look it up but you can if you want. You can't fail DCPS unless you have very bad attendance or refuse to do anything!!!! This is not only the policy in DCPS but other jurisdictions also, I guess it's good faith effort or something, if you have your name on your paper you can can get a grade...

[Anonymous]

I just checked my kid’s Aspen from last year and yup, zeroes on two homework assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just checked my kid’s Aspen from last year and yup, zeroes on two homework assignments.

From PP (who is right): “DCPS got rid of zeros, teachers can enter a zero but it doesn't count as a zero in the gradebook”

[Anonymous]

Deal gives zeros. I just checked aspen too and my daughter has a zero. It was calculated into her grade--I just double checked the math.

[Anonymous]

So can you explain why my kid got 100% on every HW assignment he turned in and ended up with a C for HW? Could it have been the HW he didn’t turn in and got zeroes for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deal gives zeros. I just checked aspen too and my daughter has a zero. It was calculated into her grade--I just double checked the math.

Read the handbook, Deal follows the DCPS grading policy! Teacher can enter a zero but it doesn't count as a zero, it's 50+ can't remember exactly but you can call DCPS if don't believe me or PPs

[Anonymous]

OP- sounds like you’re new to summer assignments. Yes, most schools in NOVA area have summer assignments starting in middle school. Yes, they are graded. If your child is entering 6th, I’m assuming this is a new process for you. Get used to it until they graduate.

[Anonymous]

THe zeros do count! My sons grade was impacted by the zeros, even if he did almost all his homework, forgetting really impacted his grade! So parents, check aspen. I think a kids grade for tests can’t be a zero- at deal they do IB GRADUNG ANYWAY, but they can get zeros for homework’s, even if they can’t get a zero as their cumulative grade. Also, the summer assignment did get graded so turn it in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal gives zeros. I just checked aspen too and my daughter has a zero. It was calculated into her grade--I just double checked the math.

Read the handbook, Deal follows the DCPS grading policy! Teacher can enter a zero but it doesn't count as a zero, it's 50+ can't remember exactly but you can call DCPS if don't believe me or PPs

this changed a year and a half ago after the grading scandal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal gives zeros. I just checked aspen too and my daughter has a zero. It was calculated into her grade--I just double checked the math.

Read the handbook, Deal follows the DCPS grading policy! Teacher can enter a zero but it doesn't count as a zero, it's 50+ can't remember exactly but you can call DCPS if don't believe me or PPs

this changed a year and a half ago after the grading scandal

Dear parents listen and learn, zeros do not count as zero in the grade book even if a teacher enters it. Instead of arguing on here about Deal's unique status, even their own handbooks states they follow DCPS grading, sorry but Deal is not above the law re. IB Grading, whatever nonsense that is/was! Ask current and former teachers, Deal is IB lite, and follows DCPS because it is a DCPS public school. I could say more about Deal grading, but I won't...