High School Teachers Don’t Grade Homework Anymore

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High school teachers sometimes don’t even grade homework anymore.

I’ve tutored kids who just wrote down complete nonsense.

And when I looked at their

graded work…

They got full credit because the grade was just a completion check.

Just whether or not you uploaded the assignment to Canvas.

Not whether or not it was correct.

Just whether it was uploaded.

So naturally, when I forced them to actually try and do the work,

they did it totally wrong.

They hadn’t learned how to do it.

They didn’t know how.

Which makes sense, because it wasn’t being checked.

Further reading: It’s Incredible How Poor Math Instruction Can Be .

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