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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook.  To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline.  I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes.  If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero.  I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week.  Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.  [/quote]

Jerk move. Teachers who do this are trying to lighten their load by having fewer late assignments come in. This is why no one respects teaching anymore.[/quote]

OR... kids could turn in assignments on the due date.  Teachers should not be expected to continue going back and grading things and updating the gradebook because we are too lame to hold kids accountable.  What do you think kids did in the 70s?[/quote]

How would I know? I can ask my boomer mom who was in high school in the 70s. Why would what my child’s grandma experienced in high school over 50 years ago be the data point you think is relevant? [/quote]

It's relevant because kids were able to manage their work without mom and without a computer.  We are instilling learned helplessness.  [/quote]

There's another difference from when we were kids.  Parents have access to grades immediately and yet parents don't know the ins and outs of what's happening at school.  Over the years, there have been dozens of times when i've seen zeroes or other alarming grades in ParentVue, and gotten on the case of the kid only to see it resolved a few days later. In some cases, it's surely that the teacher accepted late work.  I think it's often due leeway given after absences that extends much longer than I would anticipate.  Sometimes it's because teachers have the system set up in a funny way (maybe an incorrect due date that shows a zero in parentvue before the assignment is actually submitted). A few teachers have Canvas automatcially grade multiple choice questions but they hand grade essays, and so the score from a half-graded assignment shows up for parents to see.  A couple of times, I contacted the teacher about the problems I was seeing and the teacher has told me everything was submitted and I shouldn't worry about it-- parentvue will catch up (echoing what my kid said but I hadn't believed).  This last spring, one of my kid's teachers did all kind of bizarre assignment substitutes that even the kid never really figured out-- it was the teacher's way of giving students individualized assignments to prep for their personal weaknesses and needs for the AP exam but from the long, anxiety-ridden descriptions from my kid, my guess is that even the teacher couldn't track all of the grade changes and substitutions.

My point is that back in the day, the kid would work it out with the teacher and parents wouldn't be the wiser as long as the two resolved it before report cards.  Now, a good chunk of kids have alarmist parents (like me) who jump on them the day something looks awry in Parentvue.  Which is 1000% more stressful for kids than we had it. [/quote]

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