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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I often see lots of complaints about homework in MS/HS about it being optional, which I don’t understand.  Homework is meant for the student not a grade. It’s for student practice, catch-up, to be prepared to engage in class with the learning/teachers/peers, to allow students to determine if they are comfortable with the material and if not seek help/guidance.

Some will say that if it’s optional, students will just not do it.  Maybe true maybe not, but that is the student/family choice.  The same way folks are choosing supplemental classes and extracurriculars, they could choose to do the HW.[/quote]

LOL I truly wonder if you grasp human behavior, psychology and how incentives work. If it is optional and there's no penalty for not doing, 90% of people will opt to not do it.

And I will tell you that 90% of kids don't do optional homework. What would be the point? The teachers don't even look at it to provide feedback, even if you're willing to forego a grade for it.[/quote]

PP’s point was that if they can skip the homework and get an A on the test, why should anyone care?   They have accurately assessed the worth of the work. [/quote]

Don't you think it's unfair to say, "Those who are doing fine without homework are good so there's no problem," without considering that the kids who are currently getting C's could be getting B's if HW was required and not optional. Or more importantly, the kids who are getting D's without homework could be getting C's if HW and practice were required, weighted accordingly and become an ingrained habit.

But when your baseline is that you don't care about optimal or best outcomes for students, then I guess you don't care about setting kids up for success and to reach their full potential. [/quote]
To some, social emotional learning, making sure that they don't feel uncomfortable with an SRO in the school, even though we've now had two lockdowns in two weeks in two HS, are all more important than HW and good grades.

Hence the "honors" in all the HS classes, no HW, 50% grading policy, remove all SROs, RJ.  I am not sure who MCPS thinks this is all serving in the end because all this BS just make kids lazier and have no accountability for their bad behavior.

And then they wonder why there is still an achievement gap, which is growing every year, and why some adults don't know how to read higher than a 5th grade level, or why there is an uptick in violence in MoCo. [/quote]

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