Grades Lowered - Homework Not Graded

[Anonymous]

Has anyone experienced assignment grades lowered after-the-fact without telling parents or had homework not graded and the Principal and Superintendent of Schools not correct it when it was pointed out to them (with the evidence)? I think this affected DC's admission into 6th Magnet this year.

[Anonymous]

I don't think that the Superintendent of Schools not correcting your 5th graders homework affected the admission process. You contacting the Superintendent about 5th grade homework might have though. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that the Superintendent of Schools not correcting your 5th graders homework affected the admission process. You contacting the Superintendent about 5th grade homework might have though. Wow.

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[Anonymous]

No, but you are welcome to point out the error in your appeal for the magnet program.

Hopefully you pointed the error out 1- to teacher and 2- to Principal, and not to the Superintendent who oversees a school district of over 166,000 students, who, believe it our not, has much more important things to be concerned about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that the Superintendent of Schools not correcting your 5th graders homework affected the admission process. You contacting the Superintendent about 5th grade homework might have though. Wow.

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Yup.

[Anonymous]

We are going to need MUCH more information here. You think your child's grade was "lowered after the fact?"

Isn't it more likely that the first grade was erroneous? What did the teacher say when your child asked about it?

Homework not graded? Do you mean not graded in real time, or never graded? If never graded, how did it impact your child's grade?

[Anonymous]

OP, homework is optional in elementary in MCPS. It CANNOT effect the overall grade.

[Anonymous]

You need to talk to the teacher and clarify what assignments are included in the grade and what caused the grade to be lowered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone experienced assignment grades lowered after-the-fact without telling parents or had homework not graded and the Principal and Superintendent of Schools not correct it when it was pointed out to them (with the evidence)? I think this affected DC's admission into 6th Magnet this year.

what?

[Anonymous]

As a fifth grader parent, do you kids bring back the graded homework or classwork assignment for parents to to view? I feel this kinds of thing stopped since my kid's 3rd grade, is it normal?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like someone looking for an excuse as to why DC wasn't chosen.

[Anonymous]

OP - yes, went through the teacher, Principal, Superintendent of Schools. MCPS didn't deny any facts or evidence provided. I was hoping they would just say "oops, our bad - we'll correct that right away" - instead they doubled and tripled-down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like someone looking for an excuse as to why DC wasn't chosen.

Well they did contact the Superintendent. Which is often the first step.

They may not have had an opportunity to sit with their child during the test. The OP wasn't clear about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like someone looking for an excuse as to why DC wasn't chosen.

If report card counts as MCPS says, then it is either reason or excuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a fifth grader parent, do you kids bring back the graded homework or classwork assignment for parents to to view? I feel this kinds of thing stopped since my kid's 3rd grade, is it normal?

My kid brings home some graded class work and some ungraded class work. My 5th grader brings home vocabulary homework that has some notation on it that the teacher has seen it. My second grader’s homework is not even brought in to be reviewed by the teacher. They have math worksheets and spelling practice but it is never checked or graded.