Tomorrow morning I have a parent teacher meeting. Knowing that their parents were going to see their grades, a number of students asked if they could turn in homework late. I said yes.
After school I got busy grading, they got busy doing homework. Around 8:00pm after most of the students had left, I noticed that the handwriting on one kid’s paper was dramatically different than the handwriting on another assignment with the same name on it.
As I looked closer this was true of a number of the assignments turned in by various students. I also noticed that some of the students who had been doing work had not turned in any work. It’s great that friends are willing to stay after school and help each other with homework. It is not great if the “help” given involves putting one person’s name on another person’s work.
I was pretty frustrated. I had stayed late grading work that ought not even to have been turned in. I had spent time entering grades into my grade book. I then had to spend time reentering zeros over the scores I’d entered.
2s and 7s are quite different from one student to another.
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