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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid hasn't had a grade entered since March 19 in one class.  When are teachers supposed to get grades in?[/quote]

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If you have a teacher who is a hot mess who can't seem to manage Gradebook, at what point do you flag this to someone else in the school (guidance counselor)?  All my kids' teachers are fine except for one who is near retirement whose grades lag by a month or so and even when grades are entered--it's often a mix of wrong stuff (0s and 50%s for the whole class.)

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My experience is that the administration is utterly incapable of doing anything about the teachers who are a hot mess.  What are they going to do -- fire them?  They can't hire for most of these positions, so they really don't want to fire.  Instead, the counselor will give you the sympathetic face, and say that they are aware of the problem and that efforts are being made to address it (which they probably aren't, but the counselors have no authority).  My HS kid has one awful teacher who is getting fired -- after not doing much all year, she came into the class and blamed all the kids for the fact that her contract is getting not renewed -- literally said it was THEIR FAULT she was getting fire -- so of course at this point she's doing even less.  I'm not the one that complained about her, but I'm sure some parents probably did.

For parents -- if you aren't checking the canvass grades as well as parentvue, that's sometimes helpful.  You should consider that the grade is whichever is higher -- canvas or parentvue.  And if they both say zero, there's a *chance* that it hasn't been turned in, but a chance that it just hasn't been entered onto either system.  It makes it really, really hard for parents that want to impose consequences on their teens -- you can't really say "You're grounded until you're caught up on all that missing work" when you really can't tell what's missing!  
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Yes this.  I have a kid who tends towards being disorganized, and it’s impossible to try to help him with this one teacher because no information is inputted, and often when it’s inputted my kid insists it’s wrong and sure enough, the teacher reverses his bad grade a few days later.

It’s ridiculous that McPS is moving towards a zero tolerance for late work by students but isn’t keeping on top of teachers to provide the same level of professionalism to the kids who depend on them for feedback.   [/quote]

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