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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs.  Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on.  Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.[/quote]

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.[/quote]

We are required to have 9 All Tasks(90% of the grade) and like 8 Practice Prep assignments(10% of the grade).  Only 2 of these need to be designated as reassessable assignments.

Thats like two assignments a week.  If you think completing two tasks in 5 days is too much work then I dont know what to tell you.[/quote]

I do think that 2 assignments a week for each of 8 classes, and each assignment being a different random thing is a lot. College is definitely not like that. I think we should have both higher standards and also fewer assignments, because I think the expectations for high grades also leads to a ton of busywork.[/quote]

I cannot speak for other schools but in my school, and especially in my classes, these assignments are almost exclusively completed in class with minimal expectations to complete them at home.  I cannot speak understand that if a student came home with 7 different assignments to complete at home every few days that would be a bit overwhelming.  However, with appropriate time management skills, these students should be able to get most of this done in class and whatever is assigned in 3rd period should have little to no effect on what is assigned in 7th period.[/quote]

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