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Parent urges Danbury board to revise grading practices, I-Ready use and improve meeting access
Summary
A Danbury parent asked the board to review punitive grading practices (use of zeros), limit use of I-Ready minutes as grading measures and improve livestream audio and pre-meeting document access.
Kevin Bugatti, a parent of three Danbury public school students, asked the Board of Education to reconsider district grading practices, the local use of the I-Ready program and public-access procedures for board meetings.
Bugatti told the board that using zeros and time-on-task to measure progress can disproportionately harm students who struggle with executive function and said research favors feedback-focused approaches over punitive grades. "Time on task is not an accurate proxy for student proficiency or growth and contradicts again the publishers recommendations for implementation," he said in public comment.
He also said the district's implementation of the I-Ready program varies between his children and that minutes spent on I-Ready should not be used as a component of a student's grade. Bugatti asked the board to assess how I-Ready minutes are monitored in schools and to compare local practice to the publisher's recommendations.
On transparency, Bugatti said the audio on live-streamed meetings is not consistently connected to the Zoom feed, and that subcommittee documents are not reliably posted before meetings. He asked the board to improve audio quality and to make meeting documents available in advance to help parents and community members follow committee business.
The board acknowledged the comment and the superintendent's update noted that the administration will consider public feedback while finalizing plans; no immediate policy change or vote was taken during the meeting.
