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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by ceautery on Sunday January 13, 2019 @07:02AM (#18896336)
The system should prevent 0 from being pushed as a notification. Each teacher or school should be forced to deal with 0 in some other way, preferably erring on the side of helping students, rather than punishing them.
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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by antsar on Sunday January 13, 2019 @07:54AM (#18896483)
Teachers already seem overworked. Wouldn’t they just invent a new magic number, maybe “1”?
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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by FakeComments on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:06AM (#18896714)
It wouldn’t stop a 0 from being entered as a grade — just not push that notification.

This would actually makes teaching easier, as they can use a 0 as a placeholder without having to decide about accidentally pushing a notification.

I don’t think the teacher’s goal is to cause a panic with a transient 0 that’s later replaced — so I don’t see why they’d stop using something that better accomplished their goals.

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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by kijin on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:06AM (#18896713)
101 would be a relatively safe number to use as a placeholder. Since these people aren't programmers, trying to use NULL or NaN or -1 will probably backfire.
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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by sethammons on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:35AM (#18896804)
Sentry values are a nope. Have the assignment have a is_published check box / flag. An option to select all as published and the ability to toggle/select individual's assignments as published.
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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by hnuser355 on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:41AM (#18902828)
No, there could be extra credit
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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by munchbunny on Sunday January 13, 2019 @06:18PM (#18899362)
Or the system should allow "TBD" as a grade, or we should fix whatever reason the teacher was forced to put in a placeholder grade in the first place.
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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by Tempest1981 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @02:04PM (#18898106)
How about a system where grades are published online. If the parent and student don't acknowledge the grade within 7 days, a reminder text is sent. Then later the actual grade.

A related issue is that many parents struggle with school website logins/passwords. I bet a significant percentage never log in, all year. But they can't ignore their phones.

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Re:To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays by rexgallorum2 on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:43PM (#18904721)
What if they don't have smartphones?
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