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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a third grade teacher and I don’t offer retakes.[/quote]

I'm betting you are over 50, OP.

[b]The idea of a rigid "sink or swim" approach to childhood education is very Old School. Is the goal to evaluate performance or to gain mastery of a concept or idea?
If your goal is mastery, then retake-retake-retake UNTIL mastery is the name of the game. [/b]If it's just to tick the Pass/Fail box and give a gold star to the kids who got it on the first go (either by studying or b/c they didn't need to!) then that is a completely different system.[/quote]

I don't have a problem with the concept of retakes.  I have a problem with the expectation that teachers should give up their lunches, planning periods, time after school to reteach and re offer these retakes.  If administration wants retakes, let them hire people to rewrite tests and stay after school to give them.  Stop dumping more work on teachers.  And teachers stop being doormats and letting them pile this work on you![/quote]

Sounds like the bad teachers want to improve their test scores because it reflects on their performance.[/quote]

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