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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not so much about not allowing late work but more about eliminating a grade for homework, classwork and class participation. The idea is that a kid who fails to routinely do that type of work has a low grade for those areas, and even if he aced a test, his grade is still brought way down. By eliminating all of the other non major work grades, and focusing just on the major work grades, the students are graded solely on what they know, not what they are still mastering. That means if a kid gets a B on a quiz but an A on the test, the quiz is thrown out because the test showed mastery.

Obviously, this hurts the students who put the effort in from the beginning because he gets no credit for that and no grade buffer added in to help raise a lower test grade. Other HSs in FCPS already do this. It should be universal throughout FCPS one way or another and I would prefer it gone.

My niece attends a school that uses this. As a former teacher, I hate it. It punishes the kids who are hard workers but maybe not all As all the time.[/quote]

It rewards content mastery which is the whole point of education, whether you master the material.

The real world cares about results/mastery not hard work, as a manager [b]I don't care how much effort my folks put in I only care about the end product[/b] which is only possible based on mastery of how to do it.  [/quote]

Presumably you also care that the end product is ready for review/delivery by next Friday instead of five months from now.  [/quote]

I agree with the PP.  Where do you draw the line? The student misses the final test? I don't care how good your work is as a manger, if it's past the deadline, I can't use it.  And in the "real world" there are often countdown meetings, and check-ins etc etc. It's probably (at least in my line of work) very unusual to be given a project with an XYZ deadline and not have any check ins/meetings in between.  [/quote]

Well, lucky 14 through 18-year-olds are not in the real world yet. They are still in the learning process which means the learning of the material should take precedence, not training them yet[/quote]

So the life skills that we learned in school, time management and organization and prioritization, our kids don't deserve to learn that until they're adults.

What's wrong with our kids?  Why don't they deserve that?[/quote]

Because racism.[/quote]

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