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I'll go a step further and say that if my kids' school did this, I'd school of choice them out of there in a heartbeat. I was already ticked off at that math teacher for not *really* grading their math homework. It made no sense to me that a kid could do every problem wrong but have the right heading on the paper and get 100% but another kid could do every problem right and forget to put the hour on the paper and get an 80%. The only way I found out that he was grading that way was because I was concerned that my son was getting 100% on every homework but scoring in the mid-80's on quizzes and tests so I thought he wasn't retaining the information even though he did the homework correctly. I asked the teacher about it at parent teacher conferences and that's when the teacher told me that the homework grades had nothing to do with whether the problems were done correctly! I was thinking I might need to get him a tutor or something. Then it turned out, he wasn't necessarily doing his homework right. I think of grades as feedback on performance. If a kid is getting 100% on everything, then the natural conclusion is that they are performing well. Once I knew the truth, I started looking over his homework and checking it myself so if he was making errors, I could show him what he was doing wrong. Guess what? He started doing better on tests too!
ETA: Hmmm, is that helicoptering? LOL
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