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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My opinion may not be welcome but I’m a person with no skin in the game (no kids, not a teacher) who finds the topic/problem of DL really interesting.

I think flexible deadlines are great for some kids so they don’t get discouraged and not do the work at all (this was me). Some kids need deadlines or their work quality suffers because they rush.

What about flexible deadlines with an incentive to complete the assignment by a firm deadline? Like, if you turn in all assignments of a unit by the firm deadline, you don’t have to take the unit test. Or if you turn it in by the firm deadline you have the opportunity to correct it for more points but if you miss the firm deadline you get what you get (not sure if this would work, are assignments even graded?). Or if you turn in three assignments by the firm deadline in a row you get to skip one assignment with no penalty or drop a low grade. Or if an assignment has three parts (for example, three essay questions, three problem sets, three page research paper) if you turn it in by the firm deadline you only have to do two parts, but all three if you miss the firm deadline.

Just spitballing for fun here. [/quote]

MCPS says that this is using grades to punish kids who do not get work done by the due date / deadline.

I do think we need to start looking at each student individually. What does this student need? Maybe transferring from AP to honors or onlevel would help. Maybe they could take only 5 classes instead of 7. There are things MCPS can do. But then it would lower the number of students taking AP exams and that will hurt MCPS standings. [/quote]

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