![]() “Rockwood is a big bureaucracy and bureaucracies move very slow,” Szevery said. Szevery cautioned that any change to refine current policies will take years to truly solidify. “What we’ve been doing as teachers is following rules and guidelines that nobody’s sure where they came from.” “The district basically sort of realized that the final exam policy officially is very broad and vague,” Szevery said. Scott Szevery, social studies teacher, said the committee discussed reasons behind having final exams and gauged teachers’ opinions on the merits of finals. There are no defined rules as to the comprehensive nature of the tests, the percentages attached to the exam or the makeups of each test. 9, to discuss changing policies.Īs of now, RSD’s final exam policies only address exemptions. “I think we should make finals just another grade in the gradebook and not put as much weight on it.” Beginning DecisionsĪ Final Exam Review Committee, made up of several teachers and district administrations, met for the first time on Thursday, Nov. “High school finals place this incredible weight on students, to where stress is inevitable,” Kabbendjian said. Kabbendjian said her final reflected a momentary period of stress rather than her abilities in writing and reading. “I think that transition is unfair to put onto any individual, especially at the age of 13.” “Coming from the middle school setting where grades don’t really matter, suddenly one test dropped me an entire letter grade,” Kabbendjian said. ![]() However, differences between middle school and high school became apparent when she earned her first B in Honors Language Arts, dropping her down from an A. When Leeza Kabbendjian, senior, walked through the doors of MHS for the first time as a freshman, she felt genuine excitement at the thought of tackling a new challenge. ![]()
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