More students got F's in first term of school year - The Washington Post - 21 views
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Bryan Pregon on 07 Dec 20I am hoping to get some GOOD discussion in this thread. As we approach the final 3 weeks of Semester 1, what have we learned. From your perspective, what should schools (including ours) do about GRADING during the pandemic?
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jessicasolorio on 07 Dec 20They should take into consideration how well the teacher is doing at helping students get feedback and help, some teachers are not doing their part when students ask for help. Both students and teachers have to be working hard to communicate effectively and if one falls out it could cause students to flop more
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eoneal271 on 07 Dec 20Learning at home is not fun at all. Some teachers try and incorporate students at home, but then the students do not comply, but then some teachers don't even involve the students at home. It is extremely hard to stay focused at home when there are many distractions at home. I am not surprised at all by this statistic because we need to be in school. They need to shut down bars and restaurants before they even consider shutting down schools.
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josephinelamb on 07 Dec 20Learning online is much more difficult than in person. It's harder to stay focused. It's harder to keep up when most teachers focus only on the students who are in the classroom. Although I still think we should continue to keep A-F grades because some colleges aren't accepting pass/fail, and pass/fail affects your GPA.
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olijohnson on 07 Dec 20I dont think we should change the A-F grading system, but I do think we should change either the curriculum or be more understanding and lax on the grading scale
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scarney230 on 07 Dec 20i dont think we should change the a-f grades but i do think that we should change how are curriculum is or we should start being more flexible both teacher and students towards assignments i think we should be more open because this is all knew to us
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trinitytallman on 07 Dec 20I have noticed that online school is much more difficult than in person. Its hard to stay motivated and get all of your work get done. I feel like the teachers should try to include the online students a little bit more than they do. It will help keep everyone engaged and learning the things that they need too. I think there should still be an A-F format but maybe make it a little bit easier to take some stress of of students.
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josephfeser on 07 Dec 20I think that the way that grades are being made is becoming more unfair, The way people get grades is based off of assignments instead of actually knowing the stuff, it is based on memorizing instead of learning. There shouldn't be an A-F, there should be a pass or fail based on knowledge, not assignments.
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mmailey052 on 07 Dec 20I think that doing work online is much harder than in person because I think I lose motivation to really do anything because some teachers feel like we are not really there and ignore us. I think we should still have A-F's because they are good but I wish the grades were curved a little because of these hard times.
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Michael Keller on 07 Dec 20Online school has its setbacks, but I feel like it's manageable. School has been relatively the same despite the setbacks, and I appreciate our teachers not giving us an overabundance of work to do. And the work they do give us helps with class. I feared that this year would be hard because everyone said the junior year is the hardest, but this has been like any other year.
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laurenhansen168 on 07 Dec 20I agree, with Michael, I thought this year was going to be really hard too, but I think the teachers have done a good job helping students when they need it, and have layed off on homework. Although it is hard to do online work, it is managable like Michael said.
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xxchrysxx on 07 Dec 20I believe in our grading system, but for the pandemic there need to be some changes. This year has been a crazy rollercoaster and because of that, I think we need to slow down and take a step back. The school needs to lighten up on assignments and focus more on if everyone is understanding the material.
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cmacias539 on 08 Dec 20I never have F's but this year was my first year failing a class and I feel like online school is definitely one reason why, I don't even know what I'm doing in that class tbh. some teachers just don't do good enough to help us learn at home.
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jcollins438 on 14 Dec 20I think that this year just hasn't been great for school and I hope that colleges understand this year and the grades that come along with it.
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hharker376 on 14 Dec 20I have learned that online school can be quite difficult for some people. The grading system should at least be altered to help students keep up.
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jcooley186 on 14 Dec 20I definitely think that this year has been hard, especially with school and the stress of being virtual. But I think teachers have done a really good job of trying to help students and try to be interactive with the online students (In my case at least,). We should keep our grading system, and maybe we could improve on being more flexible with grading.
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bayliegirres on 14 Dec 20I think that we should still have A-Fs. I do think that because of the pandemic there should be some changes, but I think that we need to have A-Fs especially for the kids who worked hard to get good grades it wouldn't be fair to them for trying hard and not getting credit.
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margaretgrover on 05 Jan 21I think that having A-Fs are still a good idea, but we need to be adaptable in what it means to earn these grades. Stress and anxiety have been really hard this year and it wears on not only students but teachers as well. Teachers have been really trying to help their students and we should appreciate that.
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lennxbrown on 11 Jan 21I think we should still have A-Fs. The pandemic doesn't need to change every aspect of our life. Personally, I had no issue learning at home and most people are simply using it as an excuse to slack off.
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kaeleem on 11 Jan 21Its harder for students to ask questions when online making it harder to understand questions
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carmellahargens on 13 Jan 21i think that we should continue with the A-F grading scale. the pandemic doesn't really give you a whole lot of excuses. i mean i had some trouble doing some assignments because it was a little bit harder to do things at home without being able to freely ask questions
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tkoesters274 on 25 May 21I think that we should still have A-Fs still. Teachers just need to be more considerate of things going on at home for students and how much students are struggling this year.
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hschimmer540 on 25 May 21I agree with tkoesters274 teachers should take into consideration each student and what they are juggling at home and with schoolwork on top of everything and 7 classes that assign homework it gets hard to keep up especially with sports after school. I think we should keep the A-F scale because it's easy and everyone is used to it so don't fix what isn't broken.
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bigslide on 25 May 21I think having more lenience for kids this year is necessary. Many have to work and help out their families. Many family members have died a depression is very serious and crushing.