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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I kept a running tally all semester of how many times I had to tell each student to get off their phone, put headphones away, get off youtube or games, etc.  Last week I checked to see which students would fall a percentage point short of the next higher semester grade.  Students who had less than 3 strikes, I made sure I found that extra percentage point somewhere in their MP2 grade and bumped them up.

Is it fair to the student who barely missed an A but had a phone addiction? Maybe not.  Do I care? Nope.  Sometimes it pays to follow the rules[/quote]

I’m all for this IF you announced to the class that you’ll give an extra point for a cell free semester! If you didn’t then you are just unfairly grading.[/quote]

I told them that I was tracking these infractions and that they would be used to justify decisions made later in the semester.  It started out as tracking them so I could have accurate data to present to parents whenever I needed to have communication with them about behavior or grades.  It since became used for this as well.[/quote]

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