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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yay! Let’s teach our kids to not prepare for tests so we can take them again. Let’s also teach them that emails from mommy get stuff done. It’s no wonder nobody wants to teach. [/quote]

Yes emails from parents work. I highly recommend them![/quote]

That’s okay. My kid studies for tests the first time and doesn’t need mommy to email his teachers. [/quote]

When a teacher blatantly disregards a country policy, yes an adult needs to step in. In fact, this teacher was doubling down during math class saying no retakes but did a complete turnaround 2 hours after school. This teacher creates a culture of fear and kids are scared to approach her.[/quote]

DP, but our DCs apparently have the same teacher.  I’m glad someone spoke up. One of the reasons I liked this teacher so much was because they made the test retake policy explicitly clear at BTSN. And like it or not, it’s FCPS policy. You can’t just flippantly change it because you suddenly don’t agree with it. I mean, imagine if we lived in a country where you could just change laws on a whim because you don’t agree with them. What kind of message does this send to the kids? [/quote]

This teacher also constantly does unannounced quizzes on performance matters after the unit test. They aren’t necessarily on the current topic of study, and aren’t available to review to see what they got wrong. This teacher seems to have a “gotcha” mentality. She also grades every single thing they do, so there is no time to just practice without fear of making mistakes. This teacher had a total of 15 formative assignments this quarter which is insane. Also, she turned mathspace assigbemnts (which had questions way over the scope of what they did in class) into summatives. She also grades every mathspace based on 100% accuracy. [b]You only get full credit if you get everything correct.[/b] It is absolutely ridiculous. My child hates math now as a result of this teacher. [/quote]

This is what full credit means - you got everything correct.   Looks like your child is having an excellent teacher.  Send them a gift card and a thank you note for Christmas.[/quote]

Full credit means you completed the assignment. In the case of math space, it often means 80% or 90% accuracy, and then you would receive full credit for having done it. High schools do it this way. I have never ever seen it where it is graded based on how many you actually got correct. It is supposed to be a practice tool, not used for a summative assessment. In addition, mathspace is often finicky.

[b]Getting points deducted for wrong answers on math homework is wrong. I don’t agree with this at all. Kids are still learning the material. [/b]In addition, we’ve seen the mathspace includes problems they have never seen before or have experience doing and that are way beyond what was actually taught. In this case, the “assessment” doesn’t match the instruction.

What is happening now is that parents will sit down with the kids and just supply the answer so their kid gets full credit. Not everyone had a parent that can do that. It should be based on completion, not accuracy. We’ve told our child now to let us check their work now so that they get full credit and their grade isn’t poorly impacted, which is a shame because my child wanted to be independent. [/quote]

We were explicitly told this year nothing is allowed to be graded for completion. Everything must have feedback and scored for accuracy. Even homework. This is official county policy.[/quote]

You didn’t understand the changes which is concerning. Yes you are required to have some graded homework assignments this year. However, you are not required to grade ALL homework for accuracy.

There is a distinction this year between regular homework and graded homework. Again, straight from the FCPS grading policy online:

“ Graded homework assignments will continue to be included in the formative assessment category. Regular homework will be assigned in all secondary courses and will count for no more than 10% of the overall grade.”

This does not specifically say you MUST grade all homework assignments. It’s just saying that when you assign graded homework, it is included in the formative category.[/quote]

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