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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids learn more when they have a chance to relearn and retake. I know that there’s a belief it leads to grade inflation but the point is for kids to learn. We’ve had a few teachers in MCPS allow it over the years but first the teachers required students to participate in a reteaching activity. I thought this was sensible.

One of my 3 kids attended a private school where they could retake to earn back 50%. It was a real motivator for him to keep at difficult concepts.

When would the reteaching happen? At lunch or after school? And teachers should spend their weekends grading and regrading. At some point, this job is not sustainable especially since the pay is not great. I have friends making 150k working fully remote and maybe putting in 30 hours a week. MCPS needs to give teachers an extra planning period [/quote]

This point seems to be buried. Teaching was an unsustainable job before retakes and revisions were added.

I’m a very organized person. I’m buried under different testing requirements because of 504s and IEPs. Add the constant revolving door of reviews and retakes, and now one assignment can represent over 20 hours of work for me. So many different versions. So many different students taking tests in different ways at different times. So many students coming in for review.

So what happens? Teachers keep leaving for jobs that can actually be done in 40 hours. I have friends with my degree who are paid 3 times what I make and they admit to working 20 hours a week. It’s very appealing.[/quote]

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