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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Late assignments won’t be accepted in college. Tell them to suck it up and stop blaming the teacher because your child is lazy or forgetful.[/quote]

For some assignments though, it's clear the teacher grades it super harshly the first time around, expecting most kids to retake it. And at my child's school, one of the departments also decided that they won't take points off for an assignment being late (in between the due date and deadline), so that in practice the due date is the deadline (but it shows up as "missing" in between the 2.) I'd actually be very happy to get rid of the whole due date/deadline mess.

Again, I think a lot of this is driven by the expectation for grade inflation. If most kids in each class actually got Bs an Cs, these things wouldn't be an issue, but there's pressure from every corner for near perfect GPAs (which I think also drives the race for the most ECs, since it's so hard to differentiate kids.)

One more thing to add - college will probably be way easier for many of these kids compared to HS. Many college classes do in fact accept late work and most classes are 2-3 days a week, not 5 days a week.

And finally - none of this is the fault of teachers, it's just a silly system.[/quote]

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