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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Happens to our daughter too, we screen shot now and e-mail those in response to missing assignment messages. I can’t figure out if the systems are terrible, the teacher is unorganized, or the teacher doesn’t understand how tow receive documents[/quote]

Same here. DD has to screenshot some assignments because they are not really downloadable. Its frustrating because if she doesn't take this extra step the grade would be a zero which really drops her overall course grade.

What's happening now with distance learning is that process is being evaluated over content or skill knowledge. I have noticed that the teachers are very lax and generous on the actual content ..ie everything is much easier from a skill/knowledge standpoint but they are very inflexible on process. ie tech problems, teacher problems, submission problems etc. This is a huge win for kids who have a parent checking everything or kids who are very process and instruction oriented. This is a huge loss for kids who don't have a parent watching the process or kids that struggle with executive functioning. For middle school, the emphasis on process is not age appropriate for many, especially boys.

I'm surprised that more teachers have not seemed to even attempt to review their own contributions to this problem or attempt to look through the lens of a student. [/quote]

Yes and yes! My MS boy definitely struggles with the process of submitting. I’ve said to screenshot stuff but he forgets that too. Honesty we shouldn’t even have to make our kids screenshot. The submit process should be smoother so we aren’t all playing catch-up constantly, looking for “missing “ assignments  and emailing them in, then having kid remind teacher to look again. I complained about this to the school board at the beginning of the year and was chastised on here ...people said What can the board do? The board can decide on a contract for a better learning submittal and grade tracking system. I can totally see why so many kids have
 D and F now. How can they keep up with this mess?[/quote]

Cosigning everything here. 100% my child does not have special needs and is a strong A/B+ student, but landed in the D/F category due to submission problems, teacher not adjusting the grade once work was produced by the makeup deadline, simply missing that she had to do an assignment due to confusion from too many lists if assignments that didnt reconcile, tech issues she was being penalized for. We have good internet and an excess of computers at our house, but still thr connection was sometimes glitchy but teachers would downgrade for having no audio or no video or not being able to open or efut a doc. As soon as i realized her midterm grades were so low, i dove in and applied pressure to her and the teachers to bring the grades up. Im a non working mom ( at this point in time due to covid), so I was able to help her get organized and plow through the backlog. So much work! I dont know how kids with less involved or tech or non English speaking parents do it, let alone special needs kids.[/quote]

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