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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no issues with it. I actually did it myself for years until they capped us at 80% for a retake. I dropped it to that for a few years, and now have brought it back up to 100%.  It's a learning curve, for sure, but I strongly feel it's the right thing to do.

This is the craziest part. Every year in September I'd have half my students ask to retake the first test. In October for test 2 it was down to 20%, and by the time test 3 rolls around it will only be the A students who got a C+ or the B students who got a D. The ones who always get Bs or Cs have no interest in retaking, and the kids who have low As realize it's not worth the stress. The novelty wears off and the reality of the amount of work involved limits participants.

Remediation has to be streamlined. I either print out a second "study guide" and make them do it again, or assign them khan academy reviews to watch/practice. The individual "conference" looks like me checking in with them for 1-2 minutes to validate all missing work is completed and answer any questions they have. The kids who got an 88 but want 100 have very direct questions that take 20 seconds to answer, or have spent the time to review and teach themselves the material.  The kids who failed by and large did nothing the first time around, so they finally learned the material and I'm just checking that they have completed the work.

[b]Retakes are almost all done during the intervention block, so it's no extra time from me[/b]. The remainder are done on my after school day (I'm already required to stay after one day a week for free tutoring, so I just set up kids with their test while I work with other kids).

The only issue is grading them, but after the first test it's truly not that many.[/quote]

We aren't allowed to do retakes during that block because it is set aside for interventions, remediation, and working with students who are MLL or behind in reading skills. It isn't designed as a testing block.[/quote]

Well then that's silly. That block needs to adapt to fit the needs of kids.[/quote]

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Intervention and remediation is meeting the needs of the kids. The retake can be done after school.[/quote]

My kid needs to do retakes during school. He can’t stay after all the time. The block isn’t meeting his needs at all.[/quote]

Your kid needs to study for the first test and not need re-takes. If her does then he needs to adjust his schedule to accommodate the Teacher, that is a part of the consequence of not doing well the first time.

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