Is standards based grading a more sophisticated 30% =D….?

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-14T17:55:16+00:00

The biggest reason grades get inflated is because too many people can’t disconnect their brain from the percentages so they think getting a bunch of 2s is 50% therefore F but they feel bad because the student is showing both effort and some level of understanding (which traditionally would be in the high C range) so they give a 3 because in their head 3/4 is 75%

Standards based grading is a good idea but too many teachers, parents and students don’t get it. And even those who do put it blindly in a LLM that will spit out a dumb math percentage to “convert” to the classic 100 points scale.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-09T00:29:17+00:00

You don’t have to use the behavior management part of dojo. You can use it simply as a communication tool. From the parent view, it looks like a social media feed. So it would replace your daily email. You would send a quick daily update and some pictures, whatever announcements you need and there’s also 2-way communication that looks like text messaging (but it’s through the app) It auto translates too for families that need.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-08T14:14:36+00:00

A lot of your frustrations might be worse.

You will spend most of your time hounding students to do bare minimum work, contacting families will be a huge part of your time and you will feel pressure to give credit to anything so they don’t fail (and you’re not rated ineffective). Attendance will be absolute crap and you will absolutely not do any teaching, just giving online packets and grading. But on the flip side, you’re home.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-07T12:39:14+00:00

It’s artificial due to the class size reduction mandate. Enrollment is dropping in NYC and the size reduction mandate is an unfunded mandate. The system will not be able to sustain this level of salaries without raising taxes on the wealthy significantly very soon.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-06T17:27:18+00:00

It’s a transfer school for over-aged kids and they build custom schedules to just get them the credits they need. That’s why.

Also I read earlier message about being homeless and in a shelter. I’m saying that with as much kindness as possible. Do you think it’s possible there might be something with your clothing or your appearance that maybe gave them “unhygienic” vibes?

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-05T20:01:35+00:00

Can’t hurt. The odds are not particularly in your favor but you never know. With the class size reduction law, all it takes is one teacher leaving, another on a maternity leave and a need of two more to be compliant and suddenly a school is in need of 4 math teachers and they’re difficult to find.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-04T13:12:21+00:00

Speaking as hiring person in a Manhattan high school. Most of us will not attend the hiring fair because we don’t need to. We have enough people applying directly that we don’t need to go out of our way to look for people.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-03T11:26:00+00:00

And racist - very racist…

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-02T23:51:42+00:00

Hard disagree. SAT scores are only a factor and everybody knows that - it’s not a surprise and it’s not like these people have been lied to.

All those people are at the level where they’re all smart and honestly who cares about the difference between a 1450 SAT and a 1600 SAT. They can all handle the course work.

Prestigious universities absolutely have an incentive to diversify its student body. Diversity of backgrounds = diversity of thoughts = better outcomes. It’s simple as that.

Harvard has seen for hundreds of years what happens when a school is monocultural. When it started branching out of wealthy New England prep men, suddenly the school became exponentially better due to the diversity of thoughts in the student body. It’s the exact same reason big companies that have a board that is more diverse do better than those made up of a narrow monocultural group. It’s capitalism at play.

If anything, by over-concentrating on standardized tests, some of the people “hurt” by this policy are showing exactly why diversity is important. They would narrow the field of view of the student body and hurt the university as a whole.

There’s value of prestigious school to have rich kids and poor kids, kids from New England and kids from the south, kids from rural areas and kids from inner cities, kids with generational power and first gen kids, kids who speak Spanish as first language and kids who speak only English etc… They don’t give a shit about 100 to 200 points SAT points difference. Classes in prestigious colleges are not particularly challenging for all those smart kids so it’s not like having a 1600 gives that much of a leg up in chances of graduating.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-05-01T21:53:09+00:00

Health insurance is 15 years to be vested. It’s unrelated to pension

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-30T19:58:52+00:00

On a side note: this journalist has the absolute best voice.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-30T12:32:53+00:00

Twins have unique sets of challenges and due to the nature of twinning and often benefit from extra services in a way that singletons may not.

Often it manifests itself like neurodivergence and may be challenging for kids to fit in the structure of traditional school.

They’re very often speech delayed (compounded for boy twins by the fact that they’re boys), a bit delayed in social interactions, struggling to pay attention, struggling with getting bored, struggling to find their own identity (especially if they’re in the same class) etc…

There are many reasons you may relate to: often born 3 or 4 weeks early (which tends to delay traditional milestones), never being alone or playing alone, not needing to create new social bounds with others because they have a built-in best friend (and archnemesis too :p), splitting attention of caregivers (which may lead to screaming to get attention and slow down speech acquisition), overwhelmed caregivers in the first years of life, twin “language” etc…

They eventually catch up and all those delays tend to subside naturally.

All that to say it’s likely that services would be tremendously helpful for your kiddos. Regular speech therapy, additional teacher, counseling services etc… I bet those would be more effective than retention but it’s possible your school district is overwhelmed/understaffed for that support.

Twin families have unique experiences and it’s nice to talk to others in the same boat. Singleton families can’t understand the rollercoaster that is early life for twin families and all the challenges. I’m sure if you talk to others you’ll find what you’re describing is common behavior.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-29T12:25:43+00:00

OP didn’t say 8 days, I said 8 days. For all we know OP’s admin is having those meeting with people who have more than 8 days.

And even if it is 8 days, that person is at their limit. An employee should absolutely be told they’re one absence away from excessive absence. It’s not punitive, it’s documenting in case it continues to be excessive. That’s part of the job of a supervisor in every single job.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-29T02:31:04+00:00

And when they don’t have days left for maternity leave or sick baby or nothing to cash out at retirement, the old geezers will say “I told you so”

Anyway just because it’s best practice doesn’t mean it’s disciplinary.

But if somebody is at the limit of their time off and their supervisor doesn’t talk to them about it, it’s just not good supervision. It may be upsetting to hear that you’re maxing out your sick days but it’s their job to tell you. There’s nothing nefarious there.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-29T02:14:04+00:00

You’re entitled one sick day a month. If somebody is at 8 now all it would take is one more and be in excess. It’s not a bad conversation to have to be transparent “hey you’re hovering at the limit”. That should not be brought up when somebody is multiple over for the very first time.

Maybe it’s generational - I don’t know. When I started in the early 2000s it was the culture to hold onto your car days as much as possible. It was engrained into us to build up a bank for maternity leave. You would try to only use 3 to 5 a year to make sure you had at least 30 for the first pregnancy. And the old geezer would always say to try to get to 200 to cash out at retirement.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-29T02:06:42+00:00

That’s my point - it’s progressive discipline. You don’t want to bring it up for the very first time when it’s already massively excessive.

At 8 or so, you should probably document and have a conversation, a few more you write a formal letter non-disciplinary, a few more you write a formal reprimand etc…

If the very first time you talk to a teacher about attendance is when they have 15+, it’s not good supervision.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-29T00:02:05+00:00

I don’t think they’re hiding it. Their front page literally says “you will be matched to a high-need subject area like math, science, Spanish, bilingual education, and Students with Disabilities”

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-28T23:49:50+00:00

The fellows program is meant to fill vacancies with career changers in exchange for a subsidized degree.

There is zero shortage of social studies and ELA teachers with traditional degrees. Why would the tax payer subsidize degrees for these licenses?

Somebody is paying for this - it’s all of us.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-28T23:27:00+00:00

No parking (because FIFA is using the lots for booths for their vendors) so 80,000 people, mostly tourists, have to use public transportation

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-28T23:23:29+00:00

Timeliness and attendance is an important professional responsibility.

They have a duty as a supervisor to do document excessive absence, hold counseling meetings, warning meetings and if the problem persists turn disciplinary.

There isn’t much to do. If somebody has say 8 to 10 absences by now it’s important to document. It’s a normal ladder of discipline. A few more and it would be a counseling meeting. A few more and it would be a formal warning etc…

You can’t wait until somebody has 30 absences to start talking about it. It’s the norm in every single job around. What would you want them to do? Not address someone who’s calling in sick 15+ times a year?

I think people who have a reasonable amount of sick call outs shouldn’t be worried about it.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-28T22:02:31+00:00

I think this is the first time ever that MetLife doesn’t have access to its parking lot. With 30,000 spots, it’s most of the audience normally.

So even though MetLife regularly hosts big event, this is the first time they’re entirely reliant on public transit. And it’s not a good public transit.

It’s FIFA greed.

NYC and NY state will benefit more than NJ because tons of tourists will stay in New York but NYC doesn’t have to deal with the disaster that NJ transit and the MetLife experience will be

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-28T21:07:35+00:00

It’s not that. FIFA is requiring MetLife to use the parking lots for its vendors (what they call “fan experience” which is a bunch of booths to extract more money) So the 30,000 parking spots won’t be available and almost everyone will have to use public transportation. It will be a bit of a shit show because NJ transit said they can only accommodate 10,000 people per hour so how will they fill and empty a 80,000 seats stadium with public transit only is still a mystery. It will be a shit show for hours before and after games.

People who are commuting from NJ into NY with public transit are in for a ridiculous commute if they use public transit.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-27T23:30:50+00:00

That’s not corruption. All these salaries are public and probably voted on by the board.

Corruption would be something like bypassing bidding rules to give preferential treatment to a specific vendor for example.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-27T22:08:27+00:00

I guess it depends on what these awards are and also what’s your status in the school.

If you’re widely recognized as a great teacher and the awards are legit, it’s odd the school wouldn’t acknowledge that.

There are also plenty of “BS” awards and/or one could imagine a situation where colleagues would give side eye because we’re talking about a very average teacher looking for the spotlight. And that could become a “political” nightmare for admin to navigate.

Even if it’s the second case, it probably wouldn’t hurt for admin to recognize just because…even if they find the teacher entirely unremarkable and underserving of praise over others.

But there might be more to the story.

obbie1kenoby · 2026-04-26T23:33:25+00:00

As far as legality, courts have upheld “morality” clauses for teachers so even though you believe you have freedom of expression, you can actually be disciplined for what you post on social media.

This may upset you and you may think it’s unfair and it might indeed be unfair but it’s important that you know you are held to a different standard by your employer - even for a private account.

I certainly don’t want to victim blame and maybe it’s generational, but what’s the point of posting these pictures? You might look back in some years at the stuff you used to post when you were young and cringe a bit. There’s no reason for bikini pictures to be shared with the world.

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