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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you.  I wish that my kids are in your class.

[quote=Anonymous]It REALLY pisses me off when every response to a parent complaint about the grade card being useless is met with a direction to just ask the teacher for further explanation. This means that every report card 20+ calls come in. Its hard enough to align the work with the grading system. Its impossible to always hide the fact that it doesn't map to the curriculum. I have to explain that there isn't a category for this subject or activity so we've been instructed to put it here even though the label doesn't make sense. I have to explain that even though the grade card has no way to enter a grade into the future report periods, I will continue to teach and have assessments on that subject. If your child  does great on it or is struggling then I can't put anything on the grade card but I'll contact you if she isn't proficient. It doesn't really matter so even if the child is not proficient on this there is no reason to waste time contacting the parent.

I have to explain to the parent of a kid that read levels ahead of everyone else in the class and scores off the Map R charts that Ps are just dandy. She is in such a high level that she can't get ES grades per the curriculum committee recommendation but I throw a few her way to appease the child, just not enough to average the grade up to an ES because I am instructed that ES is rare to non-existent on the grade card. I can give her some ES grades in math even though she isn't as strong as another kid who doesn't get ES grades. The other kid does work above grade level and scores off the chart on Map-M. We can't reward above grade level work because that's not allowed. I can reward someone who writes a lot about the on grade level activity. I have to appease parents while hiding that the system doesn't work for teachers either. Teachers want to get rid of ES because there is no fair way to assign it.

Don't get me started on the curriculum. I like having more freedom but its a disorganized mess. The curriculum office hides that they aren't done creating materials. It shows that the materials have been rushed out the door. I get blamed for the spelling mistakes and bad grammar that comes from MCPS. I get blamed for the curriculum not making any sense. I have to spend hours hunting for things that align with the new curriculum. There is no consistency among teachers because it takes so much work to pull this stuff together. Any complaint about the curriculum is just directed back as a teacher problem. Teachers are not the problem. We are suffering as much as you are suffering with this new curriculum. [/quote][/quote]

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