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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

7 assignments and 2 tests per quarter is not a lot of work.  It's very little work.

The attendance is bad because of the crappy schedule and residual effects of how FCPS implemented covid computer learning and post covid computer learning and grading scales.

Ask any parent of teens

Fcps made consistent in person school and deadlines irrelevant for the current crop of kids. It will be like this for a few more years.[/quote]

I am a parent of a teen. I am also a teacher. 7 assignments is much more graded work than we ever had when I was in school. We usually had one or two tests per quarter, and max one other thing to hand in. Maybe some small homework assignments that were stuck together into one grade. 7 graded assignments is actually a lot. As teachers, we sometimes have trouble getting them all in. When a student misses some school, they are almost certainly going to get far behind in assignments, and just getting them caught up becomes a major thing. There is no way a kid who missed a week or two of school can easily catch up in all their classes. So they start avoiding work and avoiding school, and the problem spirals. We watch it happen over and over.

We don't even want to give that many separate assignments. [/quote]

7 assignments? My kids have anywhere from 20-30 graded assignments in private MS & HS per quarter, and usually a whole lot of quizzes and a few tests.[/quote]

What’s the value?

I’m a private school teacher. If I were to give 20-30 assignments a quarter, many of them would have to be graded for completion. There’s no way a teacher can genuinely, thoroughly comment on 20-30 assignments a quarter.

The math just doesn’t support it, unless you expect that teacher to give up all their off hours.

And what’s the value? There’s such a thing as over saturation. Are all of those assignments meaningful?[/quote]
Most core subject anssignments are graded based off of accuracy, besides a few elective teachers who grade based off of completion.[/quote]

Sorry, I still don’t believe it. Even for accuracy. (And how does an English teacher quickly grade a paragraph for accuracy?)

Those are completion grades.[/quote]

DP.

My kid has a Way ground practice and at least one No Red Ink practice due every week in his English class and he only gets credit if he gets 100% on them. For those assignments, his teacher can quickly look at scores to award credit, but it isn't just a completion grade because it has to be accurate to receive credit.

In that same class, he has a one or two paragraph written response to his reading due almost every week (it looks like he had five of those due last quarter). The teacher always leaves commentary on those responses. The teacher comments on the reading content but also on his use of the vocabulary and writing skills that have been the focus of the Wayground and No Red Ink assignments. These reading response assignments are also graded on accuracy.

Then he also has 4 summative grades per quarter, two reading and two writing. Those are also graded on accuracy. [/quote]

So you just listed 9 things the teacher actually has to manually grade (5 paragraphs and 4 summatives). Nowhere near 20-40. Lol.

Don’t count the computer graded stuff.[/quote]

Did I say my kid had 20-40 assignments? Did you see the "DP" before my comment?

My comment was to show that teachers [u]can[/u] grade a paragraph on accuracy and that a large quantity of assignments can have meaning. My kid's reading responses integrate all the vocabulary and grammar lessons, so everything has meaning. It isn't "oversaturation."[/quote]

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