Power School is like perfectionists' crack.
QFT. Allowing
students to access this continuously is one of the worst ideas ever with GT kids. Seriously.
The only thing worse is making 70-90% of a student's grade summative assessments, multiple choice and autograded for a little all-or-nothing action on top of the instant gratification/punishment. Better still if you never have subject experts have anything to do with assessments so that the level of questions and their intent relative to the curriculum jumps all over the place, too.
Heyyyyyyyyyy....That is what Connections DOES do.
HA. I'd laugh along with f&jmom, but honestly, I have spent too many years wanting to cry along with my DD over it.
