Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading

Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by WalterBright on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:48AM (#29184838)

I'd get assigned homework all through school, but usually would complete it in 5 minutes in class, as did the others. I can't remember ever having to take something home to do.

The teachers hardly ever filled up the class time, so there was always time to just do the homework.

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by mlyle on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:59AM (#29184904)

I teach bell to bell. (Well, my students show up early to my class, so I teach more like 2 minutes before the bell to 2 minutes before the bell).

Typical homework loads today are waaaaaay over 5 minutes per class in MS and HS. Current high school homework loads are on the order of 10 hours per week in many places.

And in fairness, people like you or me, or most of Hacker News-- don't really count. We're outliers and not really predictive of typical experience.

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by WalterBright on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:14AM (#29184992)

If teachers really do assign more homework these days than in my day, this practice has certainly failed to move the needle on results.

If the school-by-zoom accomplished anything, it gave the parents a window onto what was actually being taught. They didn't like what they saw, hence the pushback in the PTA and school board meetings.

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