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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]*Remediation assignment is online.
*Retake is online
*Retakes can be taken during advisory period or after school, but if they have remediation during advisory they have to take it after school.
[/quote]This is [b]such BS[/b]! If this is your schools/team policy it should be every schools policy. It is completely all over the board as to what each school or even team is doing for retakes. Totaaly unfair to teachers AND to kids in different schools. The policy needs to go back to up to 80% at the very least.[/quote]

Everyone has to offer retake opportunities, but the parameters that have to be met don’t have to be the same. [/quote]That is why it is unfair to teachers and to kids. You have some that allow remediation for points  to be added to a test. Others that you need to do remediation(no points) in order to re take a test. You have other teachers that make multiple retake tests because kids sign up to re take tests on different days and have to grade them(many I am seeing are much harder than the original test). Some departments are doing 1 re take for all two-three unit tests combined in a quarter. There should be an across the board policy and plan. Zero consistency for teachers or for kids. At the HS level, where this all matters,you have kids who barely try who are just getting points back for filling out a few questions, then at other schools kids who really need the extra retake or time to study get a worse grade on an impossible re take because the teacher made it impossible. There are many times kids have to prioritize one subject over others. Example: kids who have 2 tests, a quiz and a paper due all on the same day. It happens a lot.They can start out preparing for all of them a bit each day but in the end its very hard to get good grades on that many things all on one day.[/quote]

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