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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's a huge problem, and growing. Mostly school avoidance and mental health issues. No one is sure exactly what the cause is. I think the rolling gradebook and the required 7 assignments and 2 tests per quarter might have something to do with it - work just piles up and up and quickly becomes overwhelming.[/quote]

What? That is not a lot of work.

Work piles up and bcomes overwhelming because kids don't do their work when it's due, and FCPS requires teachers to allow late submissions, so work piles up. Then all the retakes, and studying for endless retakes, adds to kids' feelings of bungalow overwhelmed.

The policies FCPS has put into place are making everything worse for both kids and adults.[/quote]

That's exactly what I said. It's the two things combined that makes the work pile up. Seven graded assignments really is a lot. It's not a lot of work, but when each one is graded individually it suddenly is a lot. So if we didn't allow makeups, then we'd have everyone failing pretty quickly, unless they had perfect attendance. We should be able to control how many assignments we think are appropriate for our classes.[/quote]

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