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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure this must be available on the web but I'm not finding it and am kind of stressed, so I figured someone here would know the answer faster that I can find it!

My high schooler is completely stressed out.  He has been diagnosed with mono and has been out of school for a week.  He went back today (but wasn't 100% but didn't want to miss more school) and his math teacher told him he needs to take tests tomorrow and thursday on material they did while he was out.  I think that surely there s a policy giving more time but I can't find it!  (I don't actually know all of the details; it seems likely that at least one of these was a test from the first day of his absence (simply because I don't know how they could fit so many tests into a week).

I think the issue is that it's the end of the term so teacher wants everything in this week.  But the kid doesn't know the material.

A secondary issue is that he was out for Covid in December and I don't think he actually turned in an assignment from back then (the school has a designated day where all makeup work should be submitted prior to interims and he was out with Covid that week and figured he missed his chance.  That's just a homework in the 10% category, but he's now convinced he will fail math and so every point counts!

Help![/quote]
HS Teacher here. 
- Students have as many days as they were lawfully absent to make-up work.
- Your student missed the opportunity for December's make-up work.
- It is reasonable to expect your student to take a test which was on the 1st day of their absence. Given that it has been a week, I think taking the missed test on Thursday (using Wednesday to study) is reasonable.
- It is not reasonable to ask the student to learn material they were absent for and take a test on it with one day turnaround. I would push back on that.

I would loop your grade level administrator into this conversation because they can make broader decisions across multiple classes and how to handle end of semester grading. I think you have two choices.
1. Take an incomplete in math. Use the weekend to learn material. Check in with teacher at start of next week for questions. Take the test by end of week.
2. Ask to be excused from last test (grades would include the 1st test that was missed and is taken before end of quarter) and just close out semester grades. Still review the missed material over the weekend. Start fresh in Sem B.[/quote]

This is so helpful and reasonable.  Thank you so much![/quote]

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