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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not so much about not allowing late work but more about eliminating a grade for homework, classwork and class participation. The idea is that a kid who fails to routinely do that type of work has a low grade for those areas, and even if he aced a test, his grade is still brought way down. By eliminating all of the other non major work grades, and focusing just on the major work grades, the students are graded solely on what they know, not what they are still mastering. That means if a kid gets a B on a quiz but an A on the test, the quiz is thrown out because the test showed mastery.

Obviously, this hurts the students who put the effort in from the beginning because he gets no credit for that and no grade buffer added in to help raise a lower test grade. Other HSs in FCPS already do this. It should be universal throughout FCPS one way or another and I would prefer it gone.

My niece attends a school that uses this. As a former teacher, I hate it. It punishes the kids who are hard workers but maybe not all As all the time.[/quote]

It rewards content mastery which is the whole point of education, whether you master the material.

The real world cares about results/mastery not hard work, as a manager I don't care how much effort my folks put in I only care about the end product which is only possible based on mastery of how to do it.  [/quote]

Different poster here... I hear you and I'm the same with the people I manage. The difference is that out here in the real world, the results are often not as clear-cut like it is for a test. Also, resources and schedules have some elasticity, so capable people often have ample opportunities to adjust course to achieve the desired result. Taking a test in a class is different, and a student can have a bad day or week. I view homework and class participation as things that the student can do on an on-going basis that help mitigate the effects of a bombed test. Another consideration is that before they are adults, students have to be taught how to regulate themselves in their daily activities. While we give adults the freedom to regulate themselves, it's because of our trust that their education have taught them the necessary skills. Therefore, it's important for students to learn and demonstrate these skills through consistent homework completion and class participation. [/quote]

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