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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you have any evidence that there are lots of kids who “significantly” improved their grades because of virtual learning?

Also, this class had half of their 6 semesters virtual. Hard to know whether they would have improved anyway.  And agree that test scores should be submitted.

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I have a friend who made it her full time job to do her junior’s homework and tests. No joke. This kid has straight As and didn’t do a thing.

In my daughter’s experience, a lot of friends were cheating by using facetime and texting during tests. One friend got caught cheating on tests, submitting the same paper as a friend twice, etc and still got an A. The regular level classes made it very easy to cheat because they give standard multiple choice tests, but in the IB classes, every test given is an essay test and there is really no way to cheat, so grades were pretty normal. [/quote]

Your “friend” sounds like an outlier.  My kid has been working her butt off all year in virtual classes.  She has a mix of grades and earned every one of them, including the As.

[b]Really sick of this insinuation that kids with As must have cheated[/b].  Perhaps yours did.  That’s all you need to worry about.[/quote]

PP - I don't ever get the sense that people are insinuating that everyone with A's cheated at all.  And I say this as a parent of a HS student who gets A's and works hard - both in person and virtual.

But I do think it's true (based on my DC's comments) that there has been more cheating in virtual world and sadly, more parent involvement. I think teachers have tried to adjust their tests to try to minimize cheating or parental involvement but there's only so much you can do.

This person noted above who did her junior's work all year is so off charts bad (and nuts?!).  How must that make her child feel about themselves?  And what is it teaching this child in terms of life lessons? What's important the work? the learning? the grade?   It's just really over the top, bad parenting.  But I suspect this same parent may have been involved pre-COVID to do things like heavily edit papers and/or feed paper ideas (or even write papers?) for her child.

Let's face it some parents are heavily involved in their child's school work, while other kids do it all on their own and never even show their parents.

My kid sees it happen, but just keeps their head down and doesn't worry about the others.  You can only control how you live your own life in these situations. [/quote]

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