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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. With the lax grading deadlines implemented by MCPS, it may be more of an issue where if a teacher provides feedback (especially if the assignment is online in MyMCPS), students will share the answers.  Some teachers, including myself, are completely over the lax grading deadlines. I'm in grad school (yes, I know very very different) but my prof has STRICT deadlines. If you are late, you better pray the prof will accept your paper.  I really think MCPS is not preparing students well. It is incredibly hard to offer retakes, etc when half the class hasn't turned in their work.  Before COVID, I could enforce deadlines and keep things moving. Now? It's the wild west of grading. We never know when the assignments will come in and who turns in what at what time.  My only relief is the end of the quarter when I can finally shut things down. We have no autonomy anymore in our classes. But even then I still get asked to extend a deadline sometimes! It doesn't help a student to turn in an assignment 2 months late. What are they learning then?  [/quote]

I am not sure where you teach, but this is definitely not true at my kid’s school. Deadlines are strict and enforced. [/quote]

There's a lot of variability by school and teacher.

At my kids' DCC high school, one teacher has a policy that sees all assignments have due dates AND deadlines. Due dates are when the assignment is originally due and the deadline is the last day that the teacher will accept the assignment, which is usually a week or so past the due date.

Another teacher lets you make up any assignment before the interim grades go out. After interim grades go out, no late assignments from before the interim will be accepted. Same is true for the second half of the marking period post-interims.

And then there's other teachers who you let you turn in whatever late assignments you want, as long as it's done before the end of the marking period.[/quote]

This is exactly the same at my kids school as is exactly the problem.  Set the due date, set the deadline and be done with it. If a kid was out ill or has some other excused absence then fine.  It’s a responsibility and accountability system for both students and staff.  I’m really not sure why this continues to be a problem. Especially considering this is the grading policy that central office staff point to whenever asked about grades.[/quote]

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