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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]

As a math teacher I want to have 20+ assignments a quarter. Mostly low stakes short assignments every day with almost no effect to grade (40 assignments were worth only 10%) to make sure students know what skill they are missing to prepare for the quiz or test in the future. However, I am not allowed to do this anymore and if I make these same assignments ungraded the kids don’t do them or cheat even when it’s for them to know what skills that are missing.[/quote]

Yes the big problem is the county is pushing the idea that the everyone needs to get the same education in every class. Which creates a cookie cutter classroom that leaks any creativity. Teachers basically have to break rules to do something creative or really do something to help their students. [b]It’s sad, middle school is the worst, they basically just work out of workbooks even though most good teachers hate them. [/b]All about lowering the bar and helping the worst [/quote]

Oh what planet? My child is in middle school in FCPS and we have never ever seen a workbook.[/quote]

+1   Workbook? I've never seen a workbook in middle school. [/quote]

Trust me! Ask your kids it may not be a traditional workbook but everything is already planned for the teacher. Each activity is planned out and some schools are forced to use them. They are some of the worse lessons you have ever seen[/quote]

I am a middle school teacher. Our lessons are not planned out for us, at least not in three of the four core subjects, World Language, and at least five of the electives.

There are required standards, but that is a K-12, state-wide requirement. Standards are not lessons.[/quote]

I think some middle schools are ysing HMB this year in English. [/quote]

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