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[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]

I think DD's AP teachers did a great job with all the assignments and yes there were a lot of them. The assignments for one other class were okay too but the others did actually have a lot of useless busy work.
I don't know if it's this way now but I went to private and there was actually just as much or more work on a weekly basis as I am seeing with my MCPS kid but a lot of it wasn't graded. The teacher would just go around the room and see if kids had been doing their work or not and they'd get a 10-15% homework/participation grade. Nearly everyone got 100% for that. But this is probably more difficult to implement in public because the classes are so big so a teacher can't just keep it in her head whether a child is doing their class work or homework.[/quote]

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