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[quote=Anonymous]DD just barely averted failing two classes after consistently having straight As. She has ADHD and executive functioning problems. The combination of how teachers enter grades into the platform and disproportionate weighting on some assignments almost killed her grades.

In one class she had an A the morning of the final and then got an A on the final but two hours later her entire grade dropped to an F. The teacher had updated the course and decided to count only one small 20 point assignment for a section that was worth 40% of the entire grade. DD had only been missing two assignments and of course this was one of them. She had turned it in but turned it in late a month ago. The teacher had not graded it and it was still a zero so it dropped her entire grade by 40%.This teacher is one that never responds to emails. If I had not caught this when it happened, DD would not have known and been able to go into her last office hours to get it changed.

In another class, the final was actually a writing project that pre-DL was done in class over a few weeks. The teacher decided to split it 2 parts and just put in comments on which parts should be done for the final this semester and which parts not to do. It was a complicated 8 pages of instructions -which would have been appropriate for project but not really a final. DD had an A on all assignments before this one. This assignment was unlike anything that they had done before and included reading 7 documents on new content. She got confused on the instructions and realized at the end that she did the wrong sections. She was in tears and sent the teacher an email. He was nice enough to let her submit the next day. Its unlikely that she is the only one that messed this up on the first attempt and she was lucky that we made her go back and check her work while we read off the instructions.

We fight with her constantly to get her to turn things in and not trust that she did it or the teacher just didn't grade it yet because often its done but sitting in her drive not submitted in the way whichever teacher wants it submitted.

There are so many assignments and its difficult to understand which ones are worth the most. Combine this with assignments that are weighted so heavily that forgetting to do it , turn it in or follow the instructions means an automatic F even if the student has an A on 50 previous assignments, tests and quizzes has got to be contributing to the high failure rate

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