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[quote=Anonymous]At least for MS and HS. The classes are actually not bad from the teachers who have their act together but the ones who are just phoning it in doing less than the bare minimum or an organizational mess are making it really, really bad.

1. One teacher never responds to emails. She recently sent an email to all students letting them know that she is simply overwhelmed with all the emails she is receiving. She goes on to say that to bring better balance to her life and streamline things that she will only answer questions during tutorial and will no longer respond to any email. She only holds tutorial twice a week and its scheduled not during tutorial time but during another class block which some students have other classes.

2. One teacher decided a pandemic with the added excitement of wildfire evacuations was a perfect time to adopt a new standards base grading system and just wing it. She has a four point "standards" scale. If you receive anything less than 3.5 it is recorded as a 2+. She has told the students that a 4 needs to be something that surprises her and which no one else has done. She refused to give any examples of what a 4 would entail. She told the parents that the kids could redo assignments as many times as they want and earn whatever grade they aspired to receive. However, she has only graded 2 out of 12 assignments that have been collected since August. She warned students that it would take her several weeks to" grade" the recent test. She also has said that she doesn't write feedback on any of the work. If the student has a question about a grade once they eventually receive it they will need to attend her tutorial and have a conversation about it. Another teacher as adopted this method and also does not give any feedback or mark anything wrong but expects a student who doesn't know why they received a 3.4652 to have a discussion with her. She will send her rubric in advance but its the vaguest list I have ever seen.

This is clearly teachers deciding that they don't want to actually grade work anymore. [/quote]

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