I hate the amount of 5 pt daily quizzes.
Yup. The 5 point quizzes in my son's AP Econ class caused his grade to go from an A to a B. The quizzes were always five questions from the reading the night before, reading that had not yet been discussed in class, so if a kid didn't understand something immediately, well, too bad. My son got many Fs and Ds on those quizzes, because he frequently missed 2 or 3 questions. I know he was reading the book because after a string of low scores, I made him do it in front of me every single night. We tried everything in an attempt to improve those scores--and nothing worked consistently. Not taking notes, not reading aloud (by either him or me), not doing the comprehension questions, not discussing it with me, nothing. There were even a few times that he got 5s after *not* doing the reading.
Then after all that, he would end up getting close to 100% on the chapter tests. Go figure.
