Anonymous wrote:Where do they have no deadlines? mCPS has deadlines beyond which work cannot be submitted. It’s different than a due date—grade declines after due date but the deadline is a drop dead date.

The grade policy for the county says there are deadlines. Individual teachers and some schools are quietly eliminating them.

I think there are a lot of kids out there who have struggles at home, struggles at school and maybe haven't gotten the support they need so it doesn't bother me if someone gets extra time.

Not at all. It's more difficult to manage your schedule if you don't have a good time management, and plenty of kids need that pressure applied externally. So letting deadlines slide can be a double-edge sword for all children.

I have one severely ADHD child who has very low processing speed, with double time at school, and he would have a ton of assignments to complete right before the end of the quarter. The quarter deadline is a hard deadline, so for a week every quarter, he would go to bed at 3am to finish everything, and get all stressed out. It was difficult for him to avoid accumulating delays. We tried to help him, but he was terribly slow to begin with.

My daughter without ADHD would surely like to have flexible deadlines, but it probably wouldn't be good for her. She still needs external boundaries to help her manage her time.

Anonymous wrote:no advice but what is XT?

Extra time on assignments, often time and a half. So if everybody else gets 60 minutes for a test, Larla gets 90. Or if the project is due 7 days from now, Larlo can turn it in 10 days from now.

Serious question to OP - what harm would come to your XT kid if everyone had the same amount of time?

Your kid gets XT because they need more time to process, to write out (show) their work, to re-focus when distracted ... whatever the underlying rationale, your kid is getting what they deserve to do the best they are able to do. Let's say, 30 minutes does the trick to bring your kid to the ceiling of her capabilities. Great, she gets 90 minutes to complete a test that Teacher thinks should take about 60 minutes.

Now NT Bobby and Susie and Timmy ALSO are allotted 90 minutes to complete the same test. What is taken away from your kid if NT Bobby gets 90 minutes?

Didn't we just stipulate that your kid needs about 90 total minutes to reach the extent of her ability? (ie, that 120 minutes wouldn't help / add capacity).

Anonymous wrote:No. It doesn't hurt my child so I don't care.

+1

No. It doesn't hurt my child so I don't care.

no advice but what is XT?

Why would it be unfair?

*expend.

Honestly, concerned with just my student.

We cannot know of everything going on with everyone at any given moment. Real or imagined.

Also, think about your workday. Boss does not give out an assignment and then say, "I need this in exactly 45 minutes." Real life does not work like this. If I need something, and my colleague is out at the dentist, or has another priority, they let me know of ETA for getting request done. If that does not meet needs, we discuss, or perhaps someone else jumps in to handle.

Yes, some or many will game the "needing extra time" angle, but I just cannot expand bandwidth on everyone else.

Where do they have no deadlines? mCPS has deadlines beyond which work cannot be submitted. It’s different than a due date—grade declines after due date but the deadline is a drop dead date.

I don’t care at all. I’m much more a proponent of testing for understanding as opposed to testing for how quickly you can write and regurgitate.

No not at all. My child needs the time to show what he knows. Kids who don’t need that may even be hurt by the lack of a deadline.

I understand an exception for a student w/o disabilities who is going through something, but it seems like no one has to follow deadlines anymore. Do you feel like this is unfair to your DC with XT or do you not care?