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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Even within Blair, different departments are interpreting the rule differently."

[url]https://silverchips.mbhs.edu/content/mcps-rolls-out-new-mid-year-regulations-allowing-zeros-to-return-to-gradebooks-36377/[/url][/quote]

*sigh*

This discretion that is afforded to different schools, let alone different departments in the same school, is one reason why MCPS is so dysfunctional and difficult for families to maneuver. [/quote]
There isn't "discretion". The regulation was changed in the fall to roll in and codify some of the changes implemented during the pandemic, to go back to some previous procedures, and to remove all links between attendance and grades per state level direction. Schools were directed to communicate with their communities directly.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/ikara.pdf

In our HS there has been a little too much flexibility and different teachers implemented certain things differently. [b]Now there are some particular things that will be consistent per the regulation[/b].[/quote]
What are those thiings?

And why let schools do this directly when it's a systemwide change and in an age where information flows freely and speedily, word will get out if one school publishes the news, as Whitman and Blair have, but others don't.

Why does MCPS suck at communications so bad? What is Chris Cram doing?[/quote]
So whiny ...  :roll:

If different schools were operating with different policies, then they each need individual messaging to describe the shift to the new policy.

From RM's global announcement:
Due Date/Deadline/Cut off Policy:
By Due Date - Full Credit

By Deadline (-10%): After the due date, late work [b]will receive[/b] a 10% penalty until the deadline.
** The change is that this must be applied consistently by all teachers.

After the deadline, but by Cutoff 1 (Interim)/By Cutoff 2 (End of Quarter) (50%)
After the deadline, students have until the cutoff date to turn in assignments. Zs will remain until the final day of the cutoff.
Cutoff 1 is at interims: Work from the first half of the marking period turned in after the deadline but before the interim can receive 50%. 
Cutoff 2 is at the end of the marking period:  Work from the second half of the marking period turned in after the deadline but before the end of the marking period can receive 50%.

Missing (0%)
After the cutoff, missing work [b]will result in a zero[/b].  Zs will be converted to zeros."
** This must also be applied consistently.[/quote]

This is too complicated.  I try to do it myself, but it is a crazy amount of work once communication is added in.  Teachers can’t enter Z’s and INC in MYMCPS.  We have to manually overwrite the grades sent over to Synergy.  It requires about a minute per individual assignment grade  due delays in the system so most do it.  I usually only do it on teacher grading days.[/quote]

This is unconscionable. Instead of teaching, grading or planning, our teachers are wasting their time being "mechanical Turks" to cover the ass of the vendor of crappy overpriced broken by design software. [/quote]

Thank you![/quote]

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