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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

The teacher refuses to share copies of their work and the books are kept at school. A track down a copy of the book myself and purchased it on Amazon so I can go over the material with the kids since the teacher refuses to explain anything.

And yet all you had to do was put in eureka math third grade into google and all of the resources are available and free online. There are also videos of lessons on YouTube, homework help videos, etc. you didn’t need to buy anything but clearly you’d rather just be angry than spend five minutes googling. Your time spent here should be used for something resourceful.

Only the old edition of Eureka is free. The second edition isn't

The materials your kids is currently learning are free. Check embarc. The scariest part about all of your posts is now we can better understand where the learned helplessness comes from.

Those are the outdated versions and aren't aligned with what the school uses.

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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

The teacher refuses to share copies of their work and the books are kept at school. A track down a copy of the book myself and purchased it on Amazon so I can go over the material with the kids since the teacher refuses to explain anything.

And yet all you had to do was put in eureka math third grade into google and all of the resources are available and free online. There are also videos of lessons on YouTube, homework help videos, etc. you didn’t need to buy anything but clearly you’d rather just be angry than spend five minutes googling. Your time spent here should be used for something resourceful.

Only the old edition of Eureka is free. The second edition isn't

I was able to buy the books on Amazon to ensure my kids had an explanation of what was expected. For example, lately, their teacher is frequently absent and the subs apparently just give assignments without any explanation.

You didn’t need to do that so no one here is going to give you the martyr status you desperately want. Anyone with a brain could have found every eureka resource for free online. Keep up. Stop asking for pity parties.

The free ones just aren't the same. The PP did the right thing. You, however, aren't helpful.

So the OP here has failed in many ways...apparent to everyone here...to make things simpler...just name the school. We'll all wait.

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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

The teacher refuses to share copies of their work and the books are kept at school. A track down a copy of the book myself and purchased it on Amazon so I can go over the material with the kids since the teacher refuses to explain anything.

And yet all you had to do was put in eureka math third grade into google and all of the resources are available and free online. There are also videos of lessons on YouTube, homework help videos, etc. you didn’t need to buy anything but clearly you’d rather just be angry than spend five minutes googling. Your time spent here should be used for something resourceful.

Only the old edition of Eureka is free. The second edition isn't

I was able to buy the books on Amazon to ensure my kids had an explanation of what was expected. For example, lately, their teacher is frequently absent and the subs apparently just give assignments without any explanation.

Now you’re blaming subs? Blame the BOE and the county for not paying subs a livable wage. The problem is central office. They have no idea how to run a school district.

My bright but average kids earned straight As in mcps elementary school.

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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

The teacher refuses to share copies of their work and the books are kept at school. A track down a copy of the book myself and purchased it on Amazon so I can go over the material with the kids since the teacher refuses to explain anything.

And yet all you had to do was put in eureka math third grade into google and all of the resources are available and free online. There are also videos of lessons on YouTube, homework help videos, etc. you didn’t need to buy anything but clearly you’d rather just be angry than spend five minutes googling. Your time spent here should be used for something resourceful.

Only the old edition of Eureka is free. The second edition isn't

I was able to buy the books on Amazon to ensure my kids had an explanation of what was expected. For example, lately, their teacher is frequently absent and the subs apparently just give assignments without any explanation.

You didn’t need to do that so no one here is going to give you the martyr status you desperately want. Anyone with a brain could have found every eureka resource for free online. Keep up. Stop asking for pity parties.

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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

The teacher refuses to share copies of their work and the books are kept at school. A track down a copy of the book myself and purchased it on Amazon so I can go over the material with the kids since the teacher refuses to explain anything.

And yet all you had to do was put in eureka math third grade into google and all of the resources are available and free online. There are also videos of lessons on YouTube, homework help videos, etc. you didn’t need to buy anything but clearly you’d rather just be angry than spend five minutes googling. Your time spent here should be used for something resourceful.

Only the old edition of Eureka is free. The second edition isn't

The materials your kids is currently learning are free. Check embarc. The scariest part about all of your posts is now we can better understand where the learned helplessness comes from.

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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

The teacher refuses to share copies of their work and the books are kept at school. A track down a copy of the book myself and purchased it on Amazon so I can go over the material with the kids since the teacher refuses to explain anything.

And yet all you had to do was put in eureka math third grade into google and all of the resources are available and free online. There are also videos of lessons on YouTube, homework help videos, etc. you didn’t need to buy anything but clearly you’d rather just be angry than spend five minutes googling. Your time spent here should be used for something resourceful.

Only the old edition of Eureka is free. The second edition isn't

I was able to buy the books on Amazon to ensure my kids had an explanation of what was expected. For example, lately, their teacher is frequently absent and the subs apparently just give assignments without any explanation.

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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

The teacher refuses to share copies of their work and the books are kept at school. A track down a copy of the book myself and purchased it on Amazon so I can go over the material with the kids since the teacher refuses to explain anything.

And yet all you had to do was put in eureka math third grade into google and all of the resources are available and free online. There are also videos of lessons on YouTube, homework help videos, etc. you didn’t need to buy anything but clearly you’d rather just be angry than spend five minutes googling. Your time spent here should be used for something resourceful.

Only the old edition of Eureka is free. The second edition isn't

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Anonymous wrote:Are you people really serious about ES grades? They are almost always A for most kids unless there are serious learning disabilities.
Even DD with ADHD got all A in ES, she is struggling a lot in MS now with C and D now

Teacher here. Grading has changed. Very common for bright kids to get As and Bs now. When I first started teaching in mcps (2006) bright kids got all As but we collected a lot less data and relied more on anecdotal notes and learning trends.

My daughter in 2nd grade has had all As overall for now, but has had Cs on individual assignments sprinkled here and there. In some cases the teacher seems to be strict "just because," like taking points off for "not explaining more" (though the directions didn't ask to explain, just to state something). Or she got a C on a "Science" assignment because the teacher didn't agree that someone that was clearly a habitat was a habitat. So it's obviously different in different schools and with different teachers. For instance, my 6th grader also never got the endless retakes that are often mentioned here. Some teachers allowed for some retakes, but it's highly teacher dependent and there are often a number of conditions on them. Obviously, if a teacher allows retakes and is less picky, it's easier to get As. I'm trying to train myself out of the expectation that my kids should get all As while still making sure that they do their best, ask their teachers for help etc. I do use things like MAP scores to track how they're doing (though I think the reading scores aren't super reliable in the early grades, but I can tell how their reading is.)

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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

I'm guessing you've never looked at eureka math book because it's just a book of worksheets.

The problem sets aren’t graded. Move along.

If the exit tickets are, we never see them since the teacher won't share them with parents.

Sigh. Exit tickets aren’t graded either. What part of “only quizzes and assessments are graded” don’t you understand?

We wouldn't know since the teacher won't send anything home or respond to emails.

Check their grades in Synergy. You keep coming back here to blame everyone else without actually doing any real work of your own.

The only thing posted in Synergy is the end-of-quarter report card. Everything else is blank at least for ES.

So let me get this:

* Teacher refuses to provide any feedback or grade papers.
* When asked for a conference multiple times, the teacher is unresponsive.
* Teacher has ignored multiple emails.
* Teacher refuses to post grades on synergy.

Sounds like you got a bad teacher. It happens.

It seems like the worst teachers always gravitate to early ES. If I had to wager I bet they're out three or four times a month too. The good news is your opinions don't really matter. The school will only look at the kids map score.

My kids were mostly lucky and had some great teachers in early ES, but my youngest has one like this now. It's not ideal but they'll survive mostly because we can make up for what they don't learn in class at home.

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Anonymous wrote:If you meet the on-level standard in ES, you get an A. Kids who are not at grade level get a lower grade. At our school, not everyone gets an A in every class. I do think teachers spend most of their time trying to help kids who are below grade level meet the standard, but they don't succeed with everyone so there are kids who don't get all As.

A kid with 99% on MAP in math somehow got a B in 2nd-grade math. My sense is the teacher just hands out worksheets and doesn't want to be bothered with explaining anything.

Sounds like you arent even paying attention. Eureka is very specific. Teachers cant just grade whatever they feel like and "worksheets" arent part of the curriculum. Quizzes and tests are the only things that are allowed to be graded in MCPS for math. Maybe do some research first.

I'm guessing you've never looked at eureka math book because it's just a book of worksheets.

The problem sets aren’t graded. Move along.

If the exit tickets are, we never see them since the teacher won't share them with parents.

Sigh. Exit tickets aren’t graded either. What part of “only quizzes and assessments are graded” don’t you understand?

We wouldn't know since the teacher won't send anything home or respond to emails.

Check their grades in Synergy. You keep coming back here to blame everyone else without actually doing any real work of your own.

The only thing posted in Synergy is the end-of-quarter report card. Everything else is blank at least for ES.

So let me get this:

* Teacher refuses to provide any feedback or grade papers.
* When asked for a conference multiple times, the teacher is unresponsive.
* Teacher has ignored multiple emails.
* Teacher refuses to post grades on synergy.

Sounds like you got a bad teacher. It happens.

It seems like the worst teachers always gravitate to early ES. If I had to wager I bet they're out three or four times a month too. The good news is your opinions don't really matter. The school will only look at the kids map score.

Anonymous wrote:Are you people really serious about ES grades? They are almost always A for most kids unless there are serious learning disabilities.
Even DD with ADHD got all A in ES, she is struggling a lot in MS now with C and D now

Teacher here. Grading has changed. Very common for bright kids to get As and Bs now. When I first started teaching in mcps (2006) bright kids got all As but we collected a lot less data and relied more on anecdotal notes and learning trends.

Are you people really serious about ES grades? They are almost always A for most kids unless there are serious learning disabilities.
Even DD with ADHD got all A in ES, she is struggling a lot in MS now with C and D now

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school grading is very subjective and random. My kid is in 4th, 99% in MAP, and only got highest grade in the IXL assessments at the end of trimester. The teacher uses some PBS materials, Cyber chase, where he scores below grade level.

He also takes 6th grade math and the grading is more consistent with rubrics for homework, the weekly quiz, participation etc. He scored max for everything except for one of the weekly quizzes.

Don’t sweat it, elementary grades don’t count for anything.

How is he taking sixth grade math in 4th?