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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Class prep category 10%,  encouraged to be pass/fail. 100% if satisfactory work turned in.  To me that means at least 70% completed with effort.  Otherwise 0% if not turned or unsatisfactory work turned in / the like the kid blows off the assignment, does lazy work or doesn’t turn it in.  About 7-10 assignments per quarter. Basically once a week.

All task assessments 90% of grade.   Default lower limit is 50%.  This is so one missing assessment doesn’t totally rank a kids grade.  No assessment can be worth more than 25% of the course grade.   However, if a teacher tries to contact home and makes two/way contact or has attempted direct contact three times, the teacher can now give a 0%.

Admin can also request that of a kid has been repeatedly skipping classes, that any 50% can be changed to a 0% for all missing assessment for all classes.  This is to prevent a student from trying to do one assessment at the end of the quarter at the end of the semester to raise a 50% to at least 60% and therefore abuse the grading system to pass a course with an E.  My high school had way too many kids literally just wandering the halls or skipping entirely and showing up in the last few days of the semester to pass a class.[/quote]

If a kid is repeatedly skipping school, it might be better for everyone to encourage them to drop out.[/quote]

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