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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many kids are going to pay attention to anything close to learning when final assessments are done?

The last couple of weeks need to be rearranged, somehow.  Have final marks go in a little later if at all possible so learning can continue.  The way things are done now I can understand doing very little.[/quote]

I'm almost speechless. Kids won't learn without grades and assessments? It never ceases to amaze me that people really think this. And yet I guess we've dug ourselves into this hole with national educational policy based on this thinking, so I don't know why I find it so surprising. So depressing.[/quote]

Clearly you're not a classroom teacher. It may not be nice or pretty but it is reality. Knowing the grades are in removes any incentive for most students to complete work or to take it seriously.

I agree that the closing date for grades should come later. But that would mean that school would end students before teachers. Then parents would complain about those free workdays teachers have without students and why oh why should teachers get paid for days they're not really working..Why don't they end the school year a week later, after all teachers are sitting around on their asses all day for an entire week because surely it doesn't take that long to put in grades for a few classes....

Sorry parents but they're yours now. Why not just keep them home and teach them there if you're so appalled at the thought of them watching movies and helping teachers pack all day.[/quote]

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