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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well our kid will have homework, but it does vary by school. My kids had HW starting in second grade (aside from random projects here and there in K and first).

I really don't think standards-based grading is that weird /horrible or complicated. First, anyone who has gotten APS elementary school report cards know that they are generally meaningless even with grades. But that is beside the point. First if your kid meets standards then you know that they fully and consistently understand the material and don't need support (congrats your kid is doing really well!).

Developing and approaching standard?  Your kid needs a bit of help. But guess what! Because (in theory) the standards now break things down by topic you now that your kid is struggling in multiplication but doing really well in addition. Prior to this my kid gets a B or a C and I had zero idea why and had to email the teacher and ask them what they could do to improve. I mean even the yearly assessments don't tell me how my kid is doing by topic/subject.

Furthermore, by the time my kid was in 5th and now is in 6th. [b]They get their individual assignment and tests graded. So, you can look at those and say okay every assignment and test[/b] my kid got an A so now that he gets meets standards, I know that this is an A.

Anyway, I basically had no homework all the way through college (outside papers in college, which were once a semester).  Somehow, I became a lawyer and successful adult. My kid is in school for a lot of hours a day? Why do they need to do MORE work at home (just so I feel better about what they are learning?).  I hate working outside my workday too. [/quote]

Also, I would hope that if my kid got a bad grade on a test or assignment but couldn't see what they did wrong they would contact the teacher. Especially since APS now permits retakes. This is a great opportunity for my kid to meet with the teacher, discuss how they can improved, study that specific area and improve their great and knowledge of the issues.

Except, you can't really. Everything is digital and often you (even the students) don't get to see specifically what questions they missed.[/quote]

Nothing was Digitial for my kid in 5th grade. It was all handwritten assignments and came with a rubric with individual grades for each section (kids had access to the rubric before the assignment so they knew what they had to do).

For 6th, I assumed we could log into canvas. I know when my kid did tests in 5th on the ipad we could see what questions were missing in canvas. So I haven't experienced this. We are new into 6th grade but were given a syllabus that contained grade expectations and what amounted to an A or B. We were told we could see progress in canvas and to sign up so that we can see what our kid is doing. I guess I will see how it goes. I do find that the laptop website version of canvas provides more information than the app. So I suggest using that if possible.

Honest question though. Growing up there was no email or canvas or parent square. Did folks show their parents their assignments or grades? I don't think I ever did beyond ES. Sure my parents got my report card but it provided no deep insight that kids are somehow missing today. I think my parents likely knew less about my education than I do now because there wasn't an easy way for teachers to communicate. [/quote][/quote]

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