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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every teacher seems to have several dozen each quarter whereas our DC in private might have 10 total. A lot of it is busy work but it's difficult for teachers to grade and impossible for kids to keep track of. The Canvas system is so stupid that when the assignments are created it's unclear whether they are PP or AT until they show up as grades in the grades section which creates confusion for kids.

Are teachers incentivized to give more useless assignments? [/quote]

I'm a high school AP teacher and there is no way that one graded assignment per week (basically what you are suggesting) is enough to keep kids practicing skills or memorizing content.  My assignments aren't "useless."  They are meant to make sure that kids read, write the content that they need to memorize (because this is what forms memories) and then synthesize/use the ideas and content in a new way.  That takes a lot of practice.[/quote]

Seriously. One assignment per week for a college-prep level course is absurd.

OP, go back to private. I have lots of criticism for MCPS but this isn’t one of them. If anything, MCPS high school rigor is insufficient to prepare most kids for college level assignments.[/quote]

One assignment per week is normal for college. [/quote]

Is it? I may be dating myself, but when I was in college (majored political science), almost of my classes had a midterm, a final, and a paper. That was it. There was required reading every week, but you just read it-- or didn't-- but there was nothing to turn in to ensure that you did.[/quote]

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