Comments on: Some High School Report Cards May Be Incorrect

By: northofI10

northofI10 — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:29:53 +0000

I tried that as an excuse MANY times!…Without success….

By: Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:47:49 +0000

There’s a possibility that it may affect lower level schools as well…

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By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:53:16 +0000

A lot of my teacher friends have complained since the school district has bought Focus Gradebook. It seems that it is very time consuming and grades disappear and reappear. Hopefully the district will drop it and go to something more accurate and user friendly. I would think parents of high school kids especially would be concerned about their grade point to get into college programs.

By: Bob C.

Bob C. — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:54:00 +0000

So, if my kid is taking a course with an “EOC exam” how will we know if he actually passed the course or if he has to repeat the course?

Kids are already into second term of school for the year and if are Seniors then all things hinge on their current courses. If he needed to repeat the course it would be very kind of the district / state to let us know so that could have been done.

With all the words of transparency, accountability and access there is the appearance that something is not getting done correctly and in a timely manner.
Kids are held to high standards and expectations and are tested to near exhaustion then evaluated based on some smoke and mirrors basis.
Teachers are held to those same sort of standards.
When will the folks who are running the train have real answers?

Hope my kid gets out of high school this year and that the grades are right at the end of the year so his college admission won’t be held up due to this seemingly continuing mess and excuses.

Bless their hearts the kids do try so hard and not getting full pull on grades is a downer for them.