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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, at Deal every assignment is graded, including summer.  And if your student doesn’t turn in an assignment, automatic zero on Aspen.  Which is hard to come back from in terms of average grade for the course.

Of course, you *may* have some leeway as to whether it’s actually due first day of school.  (Maybe end of first week of school?). But that’s not for you to decide.

In my experience, much easier to have child read book, finish assignment on time.  [/quote]

Bull...this is not true, and zero's dont count as Zero in Aspen any more for all of DCPS, so there is also that! Many kids don't do the assignments; however, saying that there is still plenty of time for your kid to do it. [/quote]

huh?
The zeros do count as zeros at Deal. 
Stop making things up.[/quote]

I'm 11:02 above.  Yes, if you don't do it, it would be a zero.  But, again, there are three components to a grade.  There are summatives, formatives, and homework.  The homework counts as 5% of the total grade. I'm locked out of th lovely aspen right now so I can't look it up, but it's something close to summatives counting for 55% of the grade and formatives as 45%.  Summatives are big tests or big projects. You might have 3-4 or more of those over the course of the grading period, so each one carries more weight.  You'll have 10 or so formatives (and also on aspen someplace there's a description of summatives and formatives).  Over a 9 week grading period, there will probably be at least 1 homework assignment a week, so plus the summer reading you're looking at 10 grades, that, averaged out, count as 5% of your grade.  You can easily get a zero on one and it won't matter, mathematically, that much to your overall score.  It will not affect your final percentage by even a percentage point.  Not doing summer reading is not going outtake your grade from an A- to a B+.  It's just not.  Math does not lie.  [/quote]

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