Posted on 07/20/2018 10:14:26 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Homework will no longer be graded in Lafayette Parish Schools. The school board approved the rule as part of its Pupil Progression Plan Wednesday night.
That new rule affects students in 2nd through 12th grades. However, some are concerned about the school district's homework policy.
"I think in order for students to prepare for tests you need homework," Terrence Ruffins said. "You need to be reprimanded for the answers correct and incorrect."
Sarah Schexnayder added, "I think it's kind of ridiculous. I want to know if my child is doing good in school. Especially with homework."
Before the change, teachers could count homework as 10 percent of a student's grade.
"100 percent of the committee agree that homework should not count as a grade," Kathy Aloisio the district's director of elementary schools said. "The grade should represent the mastery of the standard and we shouldn't be checking practice."
Aloisio believes students grades shouldn't be impacted by homework.
"Students who do their homework, but they get something wrong, would not get a good grade because they got their homework wrong. We don't want to penalize kids for the practice along the way. So we think it's in the best interest of the kids," she said.
Under the new rule, students will be encouraged to complete homework and teachers can still notify parents that homework assignments aren't being completed.
When asked about concerns of students not being motivated to complete homework Aloisio said, "When they take a summative test and they haven't mastered the standards. They might re-think the process may be 'I need to work and do a little homework so that I'm better prepared in the end.' Maybe it will give them the motivation to do the practice."
During the board meeting, some expressed concern if homework would classify as essays or special projects that are usually graded.
The committee will clarify the definition of homework within the next few weeks. Still, some are worried the new rule will do more harm to students than good.
"I was the one that didn't ask a question and I would get it wrong on homework," Schexnayder said. "It teaches me even though I am doing it wrong it's always ways I can make it better."
The pupil progression plan approved last night makes other changes to the grading protocol.
Among them, spelling and handwriting assignments will no longer be graded because they do not align with state standards.
Academic dishonesty will no longer result in an automatic failure. Cheating will now be handled as a behavior referral and a student caught cheating will be allowed to re-test.
I find it bizarre to be helping my children with math homework that is “self-taught” by the schools now; the union work rules dictate that a math teacher must be paid like a basket-weaving teacher, so knowledgeable people shy away from it.
Checking homework determines if the child is making progress in learning. Of course it should be checked. Homework was only 10% of the grade so it was not having a strong influence on the final grades anyway.
“Grading for accuracy - that’s for tests, not for homework.”
Since when?? Homework is for learning and showing a student has learned, not for showing they spent time on it.
Homework isn’t a participation trophy.
When I taught jr high, classwork and homework made up 50% of the grade. I did fudge it a little, I’d throw out their lowest homework grade each quarter. I explained to the kids and their parents that daily work is what the real world is like—tests for most of us not so much.
In addition this rewarded kids who were consistently willing to work hard, even if they didn’t do well on tests. I have a lot of admiration for kids who keep trying and are willing to put the effort in. Over the three years that I’d have them in my class I saw most of them make improvement. Many, not all of course, were able to do well in high school.
“Assuming they can pass the piss test. “
Many have quit doing those since pot became legal.
Even the State of Colorado has discouraged the wiz-quiz.
Last night my wife made jumbayala....... yummm!
How can you learn math without practice, without homework??? You learn an operation in class and learn to perform it with homework - worked for me and my children.
Do they even have dissertation panels anymore? I remember it was a pain in the butt for my sibling having to go in front of some very smart mathematicians.
Someone must have forgotten to tell you; your many years of experience and sacrifice do not count. Math and science have been shown to be subjects that black and Hispanic students have difficulty with because of racist teachers and subject matter. /s
Nearly all of my favorite instructors were math and science teachers, along with one creative writing teacher. But the creative writing teacher actually started out as an award winning math teacher, so maybe that doesn't count. My wife and I had a discussion recently where she said that she never took any summer school classes because she was always ahead of her classmates. I told her that I was always ahead of my classmates as well, but I took summer school math, science and chemistry classes for fun. I was definitely a nerd before that was cool.
They do, but they typically pass just about anything.
Go read some dissertations and you’ll find very weak presentations.
Thank you. I think that one thing that worked real well was that when I went around the room at the beginning of class and "spot checked" two or so answers on each paper, everyone got attention. The ones who are ignored in the classroom setting are the B or C students who don't cause any trouble. Just being noticed on an equal footing with their more flamboyant peers seems to help. It helped the students who weren't doing well because I wasn't judging them by something they couldn't get right until they knew how to do it.
Sometimes (well, most of the time) I got the feeling that a big part of the job of schools is figuring out who will be the gammas and deltas. (Brave New World reference).
Wait until the lawsuits when somebody under the influence causes an accident. And then the insurance rates jack up.
I could not read my brother’s dissertation. It was just pages of math formulas on fractals or something. I’m mechanically inclined and academically declined.
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I guess they just get participation trophies?
A's just for showing up to school whenever they feel like it,.
Yep. Companies claiming they won’t drug test will be responsible for the hiring of a druggie that hurts somebody.
“I triple-guarantee you that your employer WILL be grading you every minute of your shift.”
Unless one is an affirmative action hire, of course.
Then they’re graded of course, but with no observation of their incompetence/illiteracy, and promoted.
Try reading some Black History Month “winning” essays to check out the CEOs of tomorrow.
Teachers unions. grading homework that parents do anyway is a waste of time. Many students have responsibilities at home or pt work after school so the homework is being done by others anyway.
> Homework is for learning... <
For sure. But homework learning is done through practice. And part of practicing is making mistakes. If you make a mistake on a test question, that should cost you. But if you make a mistake on a homework question, that shouldn’t cost you, as long as the effort is there.
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this.
I can only imagine: “If wez be gets rid of dem whites den dey cants take no credits from us and we gets all da monies.”
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