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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take the grading out of it. This is an AP class...college level. That's how we grade in college. I don't count homework, just major assessments.

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I have a kid in college and SBG does not resemble college grading at all. DC said college was a shock after SBG and kids have to catch up to higher expectations in college.

Nice try admin [/quote]

Not admin. College professor. How exactly was it such a big shock...and assuming your kid went to JMHS.

The problem so many of you have with SBG is that you don't get to fluff grades with busy work. Which is exactly how I assess my students.

My students know if they don't do the readings or homework, they are screwed. They adjust pretty fast. [/quote]

Do you drop grades in college and say content doesn't really matter, you can just look it up? My college kid at a Virginia state school said that they were told that there are no retakes and all late work is automatically 25% off. There is no retesting of skills, multiple chances to show improvement, dropping of grades, teachers deciding what will be a graded assessment or not, and tests suddenly getting easier at the end of the year. In college, you get a syllabus at the beginning of the year that has some variation of something like 2 tests are 25% each and final is worth 50%. You actually have to show that you learned everything over the course of the semester with a final exam! That's not going on at Madison. I have a kid at Madison where the only quarter grade was from 1 class assignment at the beginning of September. And teacher says "don't worry about it, the grades don't really matter right now." Do you say stuff like that? Because multiple teachers say that at Madison.

My kid went to JMHS and said that because schools all over are allowing retakes and late work, it is a shock to students the first year of college. DC went on to say that whatever is going on at Madison is just plain weird - it also changes every year, yes, the grading system changed every year DC was at Madison - so you can never get a handle on it. Do you change your grading system every year? Yes, DC is ok, but DC is a top student and also has strong work habits from a few years in a rigourous private (elementary & middle) and was a competitive athlete.

So, I am tutoring my Madison kid at home in every subject and assign reading because homework is hardly ever assigned for freshman now even in honors classes except for math. Yes, I know doing the reading doesn't count in college, but Professor, do you at least assign it?[/quote]

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