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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a few of my kids' classes (particularly foreign language and English) there seems to be a mismatch between how long an assignment takes and what it is worth.  In foreign language, there have been about 10 of these less than 5 minute assignments like an edpuzzle.  But then randomly there have been 2 or 3 that have taken hours and hours to do.  [b]I'm not clear on why the longer, weightier assignments aren't summatives.  [/b]The kids aren't stupid and they can see the time suck of the longer assignments and then just won't do them.  In English, it is even worse, there has been a firehose of random quizzes (that have no relation to the only one summative!) and take home assignments, with the take home assignments taking 4-5 hours to complete and then these aren't even graded.  While these random quizzes are.  Is there any kind of oversight of the teachers and what they are assigning?  I've been forcing my kids to do all the work, but they tell me most of their friends are no longer doing the assignments that don't count and I've heard from other parents that their kids just don't do homework.  Is this a thing? Should I lighten up on having them do their assignments? [/quote]

It’s simply because the teachers don’t want to allow retakes to 100% on them. So they make them formative. [/quote]

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