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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, teachers have 3 weeks to grade an assignment. The only thing your kid should be asking about is any assignment that is retake-able. But otherwise, she completed the assignments and they will be graded. If you daughter’s grade drops, then she can consider what to do differently next quarter so that she knows she is turning in work that meets A level work.[/quote]

THREE WEEKS?! Should be 3 days, what $&@“! Came up with that rule?[/quote]

Teachers should be able to grade a multiple choice assessment within three days. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my children only taking multiple choice assessments. I don’t know how the English teachers do it. They must be grading constantly. DD is in AP Lang. She gets feedback on 2-3 rough drafts within days. The final draft can’t be redone so we don’t worry if it takes three weeks to grade it.

Timely feedback shouldn’t trump meaningful feedback. Four days of instruction per week could be the solution to a current lack of time for teachers to grade essays, lab reports, and projects. If every Monday was a grading day, it would be more reasonable to expect someone to grade over 100 five paragraph essays in a week or two. However, it would just be ridiculous to expect that to be done in three days.

For perspective, I was a TA during grad school. Most undergrad courses in my department that used TAs had 25-30 students per section. Most courses had only four grades., typically two to three assignments before finals. Usually a couple tests and a five page paper. We had two weeks turn around time during the semester to grade 30 tests or essays. I could do three a night for ten days in order to meet that expectation. Retakes we’re not a thing, which means that once I graded all of an assignment, it was over. At the end of the semester, we had three days to grade only 25-30 finals with no other responsibilities.

Most MCPS teachers have 120-150 students and just 2-4 days per semester to grade with no other responsibilities. They have a lot more than four assignments per semester. The minimum is one per week. Not all will be essays or tests, but for the sake of argument, let’s say three tests per marking period. One every three weeks. To finish grading 150 tests in two weeks, a teacher has to do 15 a night for ten days to meet that expectation. That is five times what I had to do as a TA. Plus, MCPS allows redos. Even if a teacher graded 15 tests a night for ten days, the week between grading one test and assigning the next would be filled with grading retakes.[/quote]

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