Sick at the end of the marking period

[Anonymous]

My high school kid has been sick all week with a bad case of the flu. She can barely get out of bed let alone do any school work and has missed several tests and presentations. Doesn’t want me to reach out to teachers but is barely well enough to sit up and do it herself. I’m hoping she can manage to send done emails this afternoon.

Will they excuse any of these assignments or is she screwed? She’s in very tough classes and currently has high As for everything but missing assignments or tests from this week could tank her grades and her fever is still 104 so she’ll be home tomorrow too.

[Anonymous]

She will most likely need to make it up. My kids were just sick for a week with the flu and they also had to make up their work.

Is there anyway you can encourage her to get the email out before lunch? Maybe you’ll have sympathetic teachers that will excuse the work.

We had to provide a doctor note too.

[Anonymous]

You're going to need a doctor's note if you want extensions or excuses for those things. Help her with getting that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She will most likely need to make it up. My kids were just sick for a week with the flu and they also had to make up their work.

Is there anyway you can encourage her to get the email out before lunch? Maybe you’ll have sympathetic teachers that will excuse the work.

We had to provide a doctor note too.

Making up the work isn’t an issue at all. The issue is whether she can make it up before the end of the marking period, and if she can’t (unlikely) then whether the work is listed as missing or zero.

Do you know what happens at the end of the marking period? Also who asks for the doctors note?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She will most likely need to make it up. My kids were just sick for a week with the flu and they also had to make up their work.

Is there anyway you can encourage her to get the email out before lunch? Maybe you’ll have sympathetic teachers that will excuse the work.

We had to provide a doctor note too.

Making up the work isn’t an issue at all. The issue is whether she can make it up before the end of the marking period, and if she can’t (unlikely) then whether the work is listed as missing or zero.

Do you know what happens at the end of the marking period? Also who asks for the doctors note?

I would email the guidance counselor and attendance officer right now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She will most likely need to make it up. My kids were just sick for a week with the flu and they also had to make up their work.

Is there anyway you can encourage her to get the email out before lunch? Maybe you’ll have sympathetic teachers that will excuse the work.

We had to provide a doctor note too.

Making up the work isn’t an issue at all. The issue is whether she can make it up before the end of the marking period, and if she can’t (unlikely) then whether the work is listed as missing or zero.

Do you know what happens at the end of the marking period? Also who asks for the doctors note?

I would email the guidance counselor and attendance officer right now.

Me again, it’s case-by-case, you can petition to reopen grades but sometimes teachers will drop the assignment too.

I’m sorry. I have a HS kid who has so sick since late last week too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She will most likely need to make it up. My kids were just sick for a week with the flu and they also had to make up their work.

Is there anyway you can encourage her to get the email out before lunch? Maybe you’ll have sympathetic teachers that will excuse the work.

We had to provide a doctor note too.

Making up the work isn’t an issue at all. The issue is whether she can make it up before the end of the marking period, and if she can’t (unlikely) then whether the work is listed as missing or zero.

Do you know what happens at the end of the marking period? Also who asks for the doctors note?

I’m sorry I don’t know about the end of the marking period. You might have to go above and beyond your daughter‘s wishes and contact either the counselor or her teachers.
A doctors note is required for attendance, which I automatically submit to the attendance secretary.

I hope your daughter feels better. It wiped my kids out for a week and even when they went back to school, they were not completely recovered, but they couldn’t miss more school.

[Anonymous]

She should be able to get an incomplete and finish the work later

[Anonymous]

Email counselor, admin, and teachers. Explain the situation and request either an incomplete for the quarter OR for 50% on missing assignments. Student will have ~1week after return to make up work, then teacher puts in a grade change.

Personally, I’d take the 50% and a B, call it good enough, and get on top of 4th quarter from the start. Kids sometimes spend too much effort making up 3rd quarter work and then miss critical 4th quarter start and tank 4th qtr.

-HS teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Email counselor, admin, and teachers. Explain the situation and request either an incomplete for the quarter OR for 50% on missing assignments. Student will have ~1week after return to make up work, then teacher puts in a grade change.

Personally, I’d take the 50% and a B, call it good enough, and get on top of 4th quarter from the start. Kids sometimes spend too much effort making up 3rd quarter work and then miss critical 4th quarter start and tank 4th qtr.

-HS teacher

Thanks for this advice. I don’t usually reach out myself - should I do this or my child? She currently has above 97% in every class (all advanced or AP) it would be very tough to see any of these hard earned grades drop to a B because she was ill for a few days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She will most likely need to make it up. My kids were just sick for a week with the flu and they also had to make up their work.

Is there anyway you can encourage her to get the email out before lunch? Maybe you’ll have sympathetic teachers that will excuse the work.

We had to provide a doctor note too.

Making up the work isn’t an issue at all. The issue is whether she can make it up before the end of the marking period, and if she can’t (unlikely) then whether the work is listed as missing or zero.

Do you know what happens at the end of the marking period? Also who asks for the doctors note?

When my kid was hospitalized, he was given incompletes and he had a window within which he had to get his assignments done before the grade became final. It wasn’t a long window but long enough.

I did have to arrange that before the end of the quarter and I did have to provide a medical note.