Anonymous
11/21/2022 16:35
Subject: Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Requesting follow up from OP.
This is OP. What follow up are you requesting? The teacher has one assignment with 60 percent of the grade. There are only five assignments total and one is worth 60 percent. I haven’t raised it with the teacher. My child’s grade is still an A but it dropped considerably based on the one grade.
Are there more grades to be put in, or was this from the last quarter? Of course if there are only a few assignments in right now this one grade will drop it, but it is recoverable as more points accumulate.
This is from last quarter. There are no more grades to be put in. Again there were five assignments/grades and one was worth 60 percent. That’s it. It’s not going to change. Kid already has their report card and I haven’t complained even though this seems to be clearly against policy.
Anonymous
11/21/2022 12:58
Subject: Re:Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.
It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.
Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.
My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.
This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.
I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.
Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!
MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.
MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.
This particular teacher had fewer than the minimum number of assignments, so I don’t think that was the issue here. But interesting to hear that the policies themselves are not necessarily clear to the teachers.
Policies are often confusing and unclear to teachers especially relatively new teachers
Anonymous
11/21/2022 12:12
Subject: Re:Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.
It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.
Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.
My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.
This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.
Why does this policy exist at all? Is there an Equity angle I’m failing to see?
I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.
Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!
MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.
MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.
This particular teacher had fewer than the minimum number of assignments, so I don’t think that was the issue here. But interesting to hear that the policies themselves are not necessarily clear to the teachers.
Anonymous
11/21/2022 11:34
Subject: Re:Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.
It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.
Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.
My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.
This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.
I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.
Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!
MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.
MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.
This particular teacher had fewer than the minimum number of assignments, so I don’t think that was the issue here. But interesting to hear that the policies themselves are not necessarily clear to the teachers.
Anonymous
11/21/2022 11:27
Subject: Re:Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.
It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.
Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.
My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.
This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.
I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.
Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!
MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.
MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.
Anonymous
11/21/2022 10:37
Subject: Re:Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.
It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.
Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.
My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.
This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.
I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.
Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!
MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.
Anonymous
11/21/2022 09:28
Subject: Re:Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
If there are only 5 assignments so far wouldn't it make sense that there will be other assignments coming. So, right now this assignments looks like it is worth 60% but that will change as more grades get entered.
Anonymous
11/21/2022 09:24
Subject: Re:Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.
It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.
Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.
My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.
This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.
I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.
Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!
Anonymous
11/21/2022 09:13
Subject: Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Requesting follow up from OP.
This is OP. What follow up are you requesting? The teacher has one assignment with 60 percent of the grade. There are only five assignments total and one is worth 60 percent. I haven’t raised it with the teacher. My child’s grade is still an A but it dropped considerably based on the one grade.
Are there more grades to be put in, or was this from the last quarter? Of course if there are only a few assignments in right now this one grade will drop it, but it is recoverable as more points accumulate.
Anonymous
11/20/2022 22:43
Subject: Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Some teachers like to surprise students and parents so that it's not possible for the student to recover their grades. I would also warn that the GPA of Q1 of 8th Grade and 7th Grade are used in criteria-based HS Magnet selections, if your child applied for one.
You can try talking directly to the Principal. If that doesn't work, I would also warn that a Complaint from Public (CFP) is unlikely to get a correction and even if you hired an attorney and went straight to MD District Court, you're unlikely to get a correction in time for HS or future class selections. Expect MCPS will play games and stalling tactics.
This type of thing is why I personally did not vote for any BOE incumbent, since I've seen where they've backed the school on doing this type of thing in the past. I think it's a pure Evil thing to do, but I doubt anything will change as long Wolffe is in charge.
What you can do to pressure the board is go to the press. They seem to care more about their public image more than anything. But you have to weigh if that will embarrass your kid.
I know this isn't what you wanted to hear.
GPAs are not used in high school magnet selection decisions. GPAs are not even calculated for seventh and eighth grades. High school magnet selection involves ONLY the grades for the relevant subjects. This is OP. My kid has all As throughout middle school. This 91 percent is also an A. All their other grades are 100 or close to it, but the selection committee doesn’t see the percentage so I don’t see how the 91 matters, especially for an elective. I was only asking about the policy to be clear for next semester if the same thing happens.
Anonymous
11/20/2022 22:37
Subject: Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Requesting follow up from OP.
This is OP. What follow up are you requesting? The teacher has one assignment with 60 percent of the grade. There are only five assignments total and one is worth 60 percent. I haven’t raised it with the teacher. My child’s grade is still an A but it dropped considerably based on the one grade.
Anonymous
11/19/2022 15:03
Subject: Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
I just read your last post. You're very lucky!
Anonymous
11/19/2022 15:02
Subject: Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Some teachers like to surprise students and parents so that it's not possible for the student to recover their grades. I would also warn that the GPA of Q1 of 8th Grade and 7th Grade are used in criteria-based HS Magnet selections, if your child applied for one.
You can try talking directly to the Principal. If that doesn't work, I would also warn that a Complaint from Public (CFP) is unlikely to get a correction and even if you hired an attorney and went straight to MD District Court, you're unlikely to get a correction in time for HS or future class selections. Expect MCPS will play games and stalling tactics.
This type of thing is why I personally did not vote for any BOE incumbent, since I've seen where they've backed the school on doing this type of thing in the past. I think it's a pure Evil thing to do, but I doubt anything will change as long Wolffe is in charge.
What you can do to pressure the board is go to the press. They seem to care more about their public image more than anything. But you have to weigh if that will embarrass your kid.
I know this isn't what you wanted to hear.
You can try talking directly to the Principal. If that doesn't work, I would also warn that a Complaint from Public (CFP) is unlikely to get a correction and even if you hired an attorney and went straight to MD District Court, you're unlikely to get a correction in time for HS or future class selections. Expect MCPS will play games and stalling tactics.
This type of thing is why I personally did not vote for any BOE incumbent, since I've seen where they've backed the school on doing this type of thing in the past. I think it's a pure Evil thing to do, but I doubt anything will change as long Wolffe is in charge.
What you can do to pressure the board is go to the press. They seem to care more about their public image more than anything. But you have to weigh if that will embarrass your kid.
I know this isn't what you wanted to hear.
Anonymous
11/19/2022 12:53
Subject: Re:Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.
It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.
Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.
My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.
This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.
I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.
Anonymous
11/19/2022 09:52
Subject: Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?
Requesting follow up from OP.