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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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]

If kids don't do well on a test and they can't see what specific question they missed, I would image that they could contact their teacher and discuss this. I know for our school if a kid does poorly on a test they can have a conference with a teacher to learn where they are struggling, how to improve and how to retake the test (if they wish). [/quote]

You shouldn't have to go to a teacher to find out which question you got wrong. It isn't about doing poorly and needing to re-take. It's about knowing what you got right and what you got wrong, even if you got an A or a B, and learning.  And I'm sure teachers don't want to take the time to figure this out for every student (not that every student is going to ask....but they should.)

Besides, sometimes the digital tests are designed in a way that the question just isn't accessible anymore. It doesn't provide helpful feedback if you can't see or determine what you got/did wrong. [/quote]

I haven't had this kind of expereince. So I am not really sure how that works. I agree that isn't right. I would reach out to the teacher and school regarding this issue. Maybe they are unware? But yes, kids should obviosuly know what they did wrong. [/quote]

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