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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are teachers really told to do all that? My kid has an 89 in one class that would be a 90 or above (an A) except for 1 missing assignment early in the school year where they failed to upload an assignment due to a tech issue, and the teacher refused to accept it via hard copy the next day.

If this new policy is supposed to be enacted, the teacher didn’t follow the appropriate rules for communication, because I never saw a “z” and they never sent a message about this. [/quote]

Another life lesson - don't wait until the deadline to turn in the assignment. Things like this happen.   Your kid had time to turn in the assignment on time, then how many days after the due date to turn it, and didn't turn it in.[/quote]

Uh, it sounds like you didn't read the PP very well. The student tried to turn it in the next day and the teacher wouldn't accept it.[/quote]

Sounds like you don't understand what a deadline is.  If the deadline on the 5th, turning it in on the 6th is after the deadline.  [/quote]
NP, in fairness, it is confusing that there are both due dates and deadlines and they’re not synonymous in MCPS.

PP, the due date is the date by which the assignment is supposed to be turned in, but MCPS allows teachers to set a deadline after the due date, which is the last day the teacher will accept that assignment and give any credit. To get full credit, you must submit work by the due date. To get partial credit, you must submit by the deadline.

Do teachers have the freedom to make the deadline the same date as the due date?[/quote]

Never heard of this in the real world. A due date and a deadline have always been the same thing in all parts of my life! Why are school districts doing this? Turn the damn thing in or your will receive a consequence.[/quote]
We didn’t use the term “deadline” when I was in high school, but I can remember teachers would dock an additional 10% for each day late you turned in an assignment after the due date. If you turned it in 2 days late and your score would have been a 75% if you’d turned it in on time, you’d get a 55%, which was way better than a zero. This policy with a separate “deadline” is the same concept, but less punitive.[/quote]

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