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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MCPS grading policies are unworkable for teachers:

-No way to put “Z’s” in my MCPS even though this is required for missing assignments.
-9 assessments times 150 students is 1,350 basically every two months.
-I barely bother grading practice prep.  I have no time to even look at it.
-Separate due dates and deadlines for to keep track of for students with extended time.  
-Students who don’t show up for a few weeks are still expected to be offered to do the assignments.  How the hell do they expect us to reteach and regrade without use our lunch “break”.

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I think most of this is a technology tech that can be solved easily if MCPS would hire competent tech people.

It should be easy to put in different deadlines and due dates for kids with extended time (MCPS should create a way for teachers or even a special ed person to do this once a quarter or semester) or due to absences.
MCPS should clarify that it's okay for teachers to mostly grade PP for completion. Many of DD's teachers do this already but I think it should be clarified. You are right that having to grade PP on top of AT creates a huge burden on teachers.
Some of DD's teachers do autograded quizzes for some of the AT tasks so there's not much for you to grade. MCPS just needs to make it easier to set these up so that the teachers who are less great at tech can use these.

I don't know what to do about the absenteeism. That's a larger problem but you should not have to reteach material to kids who do not have excused absences. I think you're talking about kids skipping school right? Teachers should not have to give up their lunch periods for this in any case.[/quote]

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