{"id":8073,"date":"2018-07-10T20:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T01:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=8073"},"modified":"2018-07-10T20:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T01:27:39","slug":"media-advisory-for-town-of-merrimack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2018\/07\/10\/media-advisory-for-town-of-merrimack\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory for Town of Merrimack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bob Bevill<br \/>\n12 Blair Road<br \/>\nMerrimack, NH 03054<br \/>\nVoice: 603-913-1170<br \/>\nInternet E-mail: bob@bevill.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEDIA ADVISORY<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NO GRADING OF HOMEWORK ON TRIAL AT STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No grading of homework in the Merrimack School District is on trial Wednesday before the State Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints of the new homework policy include that the Merrimack students are not on the same level as other high school students across the nation, as well as within their own state.  Merrimack students competing for scholarships and acceptance to top-tier colleges, where grade point averages are the deciding factor, will automatically be starting at a less-competitive level than other students.<\/p>\n<p>Another complaint of the new policy is that not all students will display their true abilities by test taking alone.  Students that put in the time and effort to do assigned homework are not compensated for work done.  Less responsible students that do not do homework assignments are not penalized.<\/p>\n<p>Merrimack teachers express a negative opinion of the homework policy, also.  Teachers said 3-to-1 in a school survey given by the District, that students are \u201cless likely to do homework if it is not counted.\u201d  Students had \u201cdecreased motivation,\u201d and student grades would \u201ccontinue to decrease for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hampstead Superintendent Earl Metzler has called the idea of eliminating homework \u201cextreme.\u201d  Metzler said. &#8220;I do believe that homework has tremendous value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Merrimack School Board candidate Gary Krupp said that the \u201cschool board was derelict in its duties in allowing the administration to implement the no grading homework policy.\u201d  Krupp also said that at that meeting, the Board members took turns making scripted rationalizations to justify the School Board\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Bevill 12 Blair Road Merrimack, NH 03054 Voice: 603-913-1170 Internet E-mail: bob@bevill.com MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release NO GRADING OF HOMEWORK ON TRIAL AT STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION No grading of homework in the Merrimack School District is on trial Wednesday before the State Board of Education. Complaints of the new homework policy include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}