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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
LOGIC people!
I've been telling my students (like I do every year) to bring a folder to review for the next days exam during finals. Today, half of my students showed up with folders and half had them taken away. It depended on which door they used when they came into school. I marched down to the office and got all the folders that were taken away. Got yelled at by a secretary since I was taking them. I explained that students will be finishing early and need something to do so what better way to be productive than to study for their next final. She told me I should run it by the principal and I told her I already had. What a stupid rule some people were supposedly following! Glad I got them to see the light. Hopefully tomorrow my students will not have their folders taken away!
Re: LOGIC people!
They were taken because they didn't want kids to cheat. I don't understand why they do this during finals but no other time (state tests, midterms, etc.). The principal said he would talk to the staff and tell them no backpacks or large binders but folders are ok. If they want to search the folders, I could care less. I just know that no student will take 2 and a half hours to complete a final. Most have a good hour at the end and should be concentrating on the next final while others finish their current exam.
I know it doesn't make sense, but could the folders have been taken away because of the new NYS rule about testing...where anything that comes into the site has to be searched. I know we are making it easier for ourselves making kids leave everything outside the testing room for all exams.
Some testing rules are dumb! I agee!
See that's the thing I didn't get. When we took state tests, they never searched their folders or anything. My students took their state exams and then worked on homework or read until they were over. These were just school finals, not state exams or regents.