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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and I post my syllabus every year. I've had to change it twice in the last 3 months due to my district grading regulations changing. My friends who teach in other districts around the country have told me that their districts have reweighted everything too. I don't post all due dates in the syllabus. I teach in high school, not college. We sometimes have to adjust test dates and assignments. If students struggle with something, I'll push back the test. If I just published everything in September and didn't respond to my student's needs, parents would complain about that. We can't win. [/quote]

The lack of publishing due dates means that kids no longer have a central location to find them[/quote]

I update the syllabus throughout the year. I give at least 10 days (minimum) notice prior to the test. It's all in the syllabus which is pinned to the top of all of my classes' notices. When I make changes to it, it automatically sends an email to each student. Plus I verbally tell students in class. [/quote]

I would assume your kids are doing fine. DD has assignment dates buried in e-mails (with no heads up in the subject line) [/quote]

OMG yes, put the pertinent info in the subject line.[b] Teachers are awful about this, they constantly bury the lead[/b]. Deadlines need to be the first sentence/subject. [/quote]

It's "bury the lede." Apparently, spelling needs to be brought back into public education. Do you know why teachers put important information in the middle/end of their assignments? To get students to read through the entire assignment. If they didn't, students would never get past the first line or two. [/quote]

We have been instructed that no dates other than school system info go into our syllabi.  Instead we use Canvas for the Weekly Agenda and Assignments.  It works out a lot better for the everyone imo because it allows teachers to adjust timelines as things come up.  Otherwise, as an example, my students would have had a big assignment due right when they were also doing some unplanned/unexpected MAP testing.  I was able to change my due dates and deadlines to accommodate that so that the students weren't backed into a corner with testing and a project all at the same time.[/quote]

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