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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, why don't parents just out these high schools in DCUM?  [b]Maybe if it's all the same high school[/b], then it's a systemic issue going on and it warrants full scale parent intervention.  It's hard to tell whether this is just an isolated case at a particular high school or whether it's multiple high schools where this is occuring.  It'll serve as a warning for future parents of that high school as well.  [/quote]

It's not.

There have been a handful of teachers or a department at every school I've taught at that works this way.  In my current department, one teacher never inputs grades until the end, using the excuse that it's all "mastery grading" so he wants to wait until the end of the quarter to see where they are (he's just a bad teacher).  In the classroom next door to me, the foreign language teacher just gives everyone As at the end of the quarter, so the kids don't care that they have no grades, they know if they turned in an assignment no matter how poorly done, they'll get As. The 11th grade English department gives one summative every quarter (despite being "required" to give 2). They grade it the last day of the quarter, every quarter. How they get away with it is beyond me.

The majority of teachers are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing and killing themselves to get it done, but a few (10%?) bad apples give all teachers a bad name.[/quote]

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