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.
The best way to grade math homework is to provide points for process as they student makes proper progression in an equation.
Sometime a mistake is made and the wrong answer is given but the steps were right up to a point. That’s acceptable to give partial credit, but to say, “You tried, here’s full credit”, is harming the student, not helping.
When they get to the exam, they haven’t learned.
I also teach math at a college level, and we see the terrible results of participation trophy high school graduates. They “sort of” know math, but exacting results are difficult for them to manage.
> Math and science have been shown to be subjects that black and Hispanic students have difficulty with <
One reason that’s so (and maybe it’s the main reason) is the constant, unrelenting interference by school administrators.
I could give you 100 examples of that. Here’s just one. In our high school we have three levels of chemistry: general, honors, and gifted.
General chemistry is an overview course that minimizes the math. Honors chemistry is much more rigorous. And gifted chemistry is meant for the very top students. You can get college credit for taking that course.
Well, most black students in our school have poor math skills (for many reasons, not all of them their fault). So those students were placed in general chemistry.
Then some administrator noticed that the honors and gifted chemistry classes weren’t racially balanced. So more blacks were shoved into those courses. Those kids didn’t have the math skills, and didn’t want to be there in the first place. So those kids do very poorly. Lots of them fail.
So the administrators are now doing the worst possible thing. They are watering down the advanced courses.
“So the administrators are now doing the worst possible thing. They are watering down the advanced courses.”
The admin are Social Justice Warriors (SJW).
SJWs always;
lie,
project,
double down.
They’re in the double down phase with the weakening of the curriculum to allow the appearance of success.
Perhaps the author was in a test program for the “no homework” theory of “education”?
Not too far off. I happened to see several “winners” locally a few years ago.
“Don’t worry scro. there’s lots of tards out there living really kick ass lives. My ex wife is tarded. She’s a pilot now.”
Liberals think Idiocracy was about a conservative future. That’s because they’re dishonest. A conservative future would have kids held accountable.
Clap really hard if you believe in fairies, too. :)
These children are being **homeschooled** after school. This is sometimes referred to as “after-schooling”. The school is essentially sending home a **very** expensive curriculum for the parents and child to follow in the home.
So....When the child does well on standardized testing, who gets the credit?...Yes! Of course, the school does and property values go up. Who get the blame when the children do poorly? Yep! The parents! This is like calling, “Heads!”, on a two headed coin.
Our youngest daughter who is now in her mid 30s graduated with "honors" with a masters in accounting. She constantly complained that all of her classes even at the college level bored her to tears. She hated that all of her classes had been “dumbed down” so that even the dullest people were able to not just pass but get good grades as well. She felt that her "honors' status was nearly meaningless.
I apologize for kidding about a serious matter that is causing major problems in our country's educational system.
But the big question, does this spell the end for “the dog ate it”?
American society slowly regresses. The “experiment” by the Founders is failing due to the people.
What will they get instead? A sticker?
The best thing maybe that parents start thinking “Why the heck do we need the school?”
No, homework is not for learning. Studying and practice tests are for learning. Both of those can be done sans assigned busy work. One reason I oppose homework is because often it is given because teachers are using classroom time for what has more in common with indoctrination than academics.
If homework is given it makes more sense to note whether it shows a student fully understands the subject or where improvement is needed rather than a letter grade.
Another Reason to Homeschool...
Boy did I go to school in the wrong era. Sister Rita James poured over my homework. My math was always wrong!
Yep!
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