No grade lower than a 60 - this could become a disaster
It's already driving me nuts. It was one thing to have it as an unspoken personal decision when I thought it was necessary. It's quite another thing for the school board to announce it as their new policy for the school system, and even worse to publish it in the paper.
I fear that kids will just not bother doing their work, assuming they'll get an automatic 60 on everything, and then go to the remediation week each quarter, expecting to get an automatic 70 at the end of the week.
What motivation will the unmotivated have to do their work, when it's so easy to slack off and then do little of nothing for a passing grade, piling up mountains of "make up work" onto me at the 11th hour of the quarter? I'll have to grade it all, no doubt about that.
I do understand where this is coming from. I know it's hard for a kid who's been making 30s and 40s to stay inspired when they can't possibly bring it up to a passing grade, without some extreme teacher forgiveness. I also understand that it's inherently unfair to have the range between letter grades at just about 10 point increments, and then have the F grade level own a 69 point spread.
I do take solace in the fact that with the new online grading system, I don't have to "give" them a freebie 60. I can just leave it blank, and it'll average in as a zero.
My worry is that it's going to give a bunch of prima donna parents unrealistic expectations that their child's butt should be kissed as if they are a genius... after all - look at those artificially inflated grades that indicate they're neither lazy nor lacking understanding in the subject area.
I guess the only solution is to start keeping lots of kids after school to make up their work for a merely-passing late grade. Yay. More unpaid overtime for me.
The very unprofessionalness of this situation has caused me a problem. You don't tell the teachers they are required to go over all their grading policies the first week of school, then come along the 4th week of school after they've explicitly stated work must be turned in, and turned in on time, or get a zero, and then make them renege on all of that.
It's going to make me look unprofessional and stupid. It's also going to cause me a lot of extra hours of work.
It's going to cause their kids to only answer a couple of questions on tests , earning a 12, but be given a 60. Hey, is college like that? Is work like that? Will parenting be like that? They'll throw a Cheeto in their own kid's mouth and claim that's an acceptible meal. Hey, I fed him, so you can't claim I'm starving my kid. How can you possibly say that a Cheeto isn't good enough to suffice as a meal?
I fear that kids will just not bother doing their work, assuming they'll get an automatic 60 on everything, and then go to the remediation week each quarter, expecting to get an automatic 70 at the end of the week.
What motivation will the unmotivated have to do their work, when it's so easy to slack off and then do little of nothing for a passing grade, piling up mountains of "make up work" onto me at the 11th hour of the quarter? I'll have to grade it all, no doubt about that.
I do understand where this is coming from. I know it's hard for a kid who's been making 30s and 40s to stay inspired when they can't possibly bring it up to a passing grade, without some extreme teacher forgiveness. I also understand that it's inherently unfair to have the range between letter grades at just about 10 point increments, and then have the F grade level own a 69 point spread.
I do take solace in the fact that with the new online grading system, I don't have to "give" them a freebie 60. I can just leave it blank, and it'll average in as a zero.
My worry is that it's going to give a bunch of prima donna parents unrealistic expectations that their child's butt should be kissed as if they are a genius... after all - look at those artificially inflated grades that indicate they're neither lazy nor lacking understanding in the subject area.
I guess the only solution is to start keeping lots of kids after school to make up their work for a merely-passing late grade. Yay. More unpaid overtime for me.
The very unprofessionalness of this situation has caused me a problem. You don't tell the teachers they are required to go over all their grading policies the first week of school, then come along the 4th week of school after they've explicitly stated work must be turned in, and turned in on time, or get a zero, and then make them renege on all of that.
It's going to make me look unprofessional and stupid. It's also going to cause me a lot of extra hours of work.
It's going to cause their kids to only answer a couple of questions on tests , earning a 12, but be given a 60. Hey, is college like that? Is work like that? Will parenting be like that? They'll throw a Cheeto in their own kid's mouth and claim that's an acceptible meal. Hey, I fed him, so you can't claim I'm starving my kid. How can you possibly say that a Cheeto isn't good enough to suffice as a meal?
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