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Late Work Policy Dear Parent(s) or Guardian(s), We are planning to do many wonderful things this year, and I want your child to get the most out of everything we do. In order for your child to get the most out of her/his 6th grade education, and her/his preparation for 7th and 8th grade, I have a late work policy based on the middle school policy. My late work policy should help students become responsible. It is too difficult for everyone involved, parents, students, and teachers, when I accept late work, especially weeks after an assignment was due. I feel that students should be able to make up missing assignments, but I have found that students depend too much on the fact that work can be made up at anytime. This will not help your child in the end. If your child does not finish an assignment in the time that everyone else took to finish it, the assignment or make-up will be accepted up to a week after it was due, and it will not receive full credit. Anything longer than a week just creates stress for your child, you and me. I have seen too many students stress over countless missing assignments at the end of the quarter, and that is just not good for anyone. With this policy, no child need flunk any assignment and those who finish on time need not feel cheated. Another reason for this policy is to encourage all students to use their class time wisely. Projects are a different matter. When a project is due, the entire group is responsible for getting it done by the due date. Each student has a specific part to complete for the team and that student will receive credit for doing her/his part. A student may also receive a lower grade on a class project by not participating in class or by not helping the group or by missing too many days of school. It is very difficult to make-up a group project when you are not with your group to work on it. This late policy also applies when your child misses a day or two of school, check the website to see what was done, and it will be due up to a week later (it can be turned in earlier, of course). If your child needs to miss more than two days, please check the class website on a regular basis so that your child can keep up as best as possible knowing that there is no real make-up for group project work - http://eagle.csd49.org/classpages/menu.html. As a quarter ends, your child can only do extra credit if all of the regular assignments are turned in, unless otherwise assigned by the teacher. This is so our students don't use extra credit as a alternate for class assignments, labs, or projects. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Al_Gonzalez@csd49.org or (360) 732-4219.
Mr. González |