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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is because of the ridiculous new retake policy up to 100%. A re take must be given for anything in the Summative category. English has some weird triple edit formula( also ridiculous) for essays/written work that get around the Final submisssion in Summative for not having to grant a retake. Our HS is only allowing unit tests in Summative category except for English and maybe some written World Language assignments( again with some strange edit runaround that goes into formative 2x). [b]Kids have only 2 unit tests that make up 70% of their grade for this quarter. Teachers are making retake tests insanely hard. [/b]Because they want to discourage kids who do reasonably well  from re takes because they just don’t have the time to deal with this. It is a complete disadvantage to average students that put effort in and try hard. FCPS a needs to get rid of this ridiculous re take  policy. Let labs, projects, written/time consuming research etc go back into Summative[/quote]

This. It really is teacher dependent, though. We have one teacher who says her retakes will only be essays (thanks, hard ass). We have another who assigns so much work to do prior to the retake that it would nearly be impossible to do while keeping up with other school work. And then we have one who simple gives a regular retake (math - thank God).[/quote]

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