If schools go online how will grading be impacted?

[Anonymous]

If the local public schools have to go to online learning due to Coronovirus, how will teachers be able to hold students accountable? I'm a teacher, and can't possibly see how it would work. Computers can break, wifi goes down, etc. I can assign lessons, but if a student tells me they weren't able to complete it because they were having technical issues, there's no way I'm going to count their missing grades against them. This will be widespread, even if many students just claim to have technical issues to get out of work. Anyone (especially teachers) have any thoughts as to how this will be handled?

[Anonymous]

We have a PD tomorrow but we will have to send work packets home. Very few kids will do it so I can’t imagine they will be graded.

[Anonymous]

Our principal told us we can’t. We can provide content and assignments but not grade or penalize them if they do not complete anything. It will be similar to when school was shut down from the huge snowstorms. Certain students will do everything they are assigned to complete and others will not complete a thing.

[Anonymous]

I would think no second semester grades for most places.

[Anonymous]

Young people aren’t at much risk from the Coronavirus. Why would schools go online? Let older teachers take time off and bring in substitutes.

The Coronavirus panic is getting a out of hand at this point.

[Anonymous]

I’m in FCPS. I doubt any work will count towards grading. ES can’t grade work done at home as it is and these days won’t count as student school days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young people aren’t at much risk from the Coronavirus. Why would schools go online? Let older teachers take time off and bring in substitutes.

The Coronavirus panic is getting a out of hand at this point.

Most school districts cannot find enough subs to cover teachers who are out. How do you think they can find enough subs for all teachers over 60? Not gonna happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Young people aren’t at much risk from the Coronavirus. Why would schools go online? Let older teachers take time off and bring in substitutes.

The Coronavirus panic is getting a out of hand at this point.

Most school districts cannot find enough subs to cover teachers who are out. How do you think they can find enough subs for all teachers over 60? Not gonna happen.

If I was a sub NO WAY would I be picking up jobs right now. Plenty of teachers who aren't over 60 are worried. No one seems to care about them, their families and the impact being in a petri dish has on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young people aren’t at much risk from the Coronavirus. Why would schools go online? Let older teachers take time off and bring in substitutes.

The Coronavirus panic is getting a out of hand at this point.

Because kids are carriers of the virus. We want to avoid them catching the virus and then bringing it home to at-risk populations.

[Anonymous]

Our school district let us know that we will not continue instructions and instead, the days will be counted as inclement weather day’s. Therefor, we will add on days at the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young people aren’t at much risk from the Coronavirus. Why would schools go online? Let older teachers take time off and bring in substitutes.

The Coronavirus panic is getting a out of hand at this point.

Please stop saying this.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, how kids are graded are probably the least of the concerns.

Bigger one is what about AP Exams in May?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, how kids are graded are probably the least of the concerns.

Bigger one is what about AP Exams in May?

AP kids now finally understand what adversity means when education is impacted ... now they can learn 1st hand about how some kids who don't have access to education like they do might have difficulty keeping up even when they are just as smart.

Get a book and study. Look it up online (at least you have the internet).

These are smart kids, they need to suck it up and buckle down and maybe learn something about how privileged they have been their whole lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young people aren’t at much risk from the Coronavirus. Why would schools go online? Let older teachers take time off and bring in substitutes.

The Coronavirus panic is getting a out of hand at this point.

schools aren't closing just to keep the kids safe. It's to help contain community spread. Sick kids sneezing and coughing is just going to continue to spread it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, how kids are graded are probably the least of the concerns.

Bigger one is what about AP Exams in May?

AP kids now finally understand what adversity means when education is impacted ... now they can learn 1st hand about how some kids who don't have access to education like they do might have difficulty keeping up even when they are just as smart.

Get a book and study. Look it up online (at least you have the internet).

These are smart kids, they need to suck it up and buckle down and maybe learn something about how privileged they have been their whole lives.

Yay, your kids can treat Coronavirus as an opportunity for poverty porn. Awesome.