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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP, but it is more important to me that teachers do everything they can to support kids' learning than it is that they teach them to "respect deadlines" and respond well to demanding a**hats who insist on inflexibility.    [/quote]
This is oversimplified, black and white thinking.  Clearly you are not a teacher, who lives in the nuanced, complicated, multi-faceted grey every day.[/quote]

If students are overwhelmed and can't meet the deadlines, particularly in this immediate post-pandemic, I think the impulse should be to help the student.  A small penalty may be in order, but it shouldn't be punitive and prevent the student who does excellent work from getting a good grade.  I am not so sure what is so nuanced and gray about encouraging children to finish assignments and not feel completely defeated?  Is it unfair to the students who do the work on time?  Does it cause an avalanche of late work to the inconvenience and possible detriment of the teacher?  Do we need admin policies to help teachers address the reality of accepting and grading more late work?  [/quote]

As a teacher who wrote our school's middle school late work policy, there definitely is a lot more nuance to it than is being reflected here. For example, the point of thoughtfully assigned homework is to reinforce lessons learned in class. It does not do any student any good to try to make up tons of late work at the end of the quarter, when the class has long moved on from the material covered. Yes, it creates a grading back up, but it also defeats the whole reason the assignment was given in the first place. Also, we of course recognize and deal with true exceptions for illness every day. At the end of the day the parents overwhelmingly are grateful, as is the OP, for the lessons their children are learning by experiencing consequences for late work.[/quote]

I get your point MS teacher. [/quote]

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