Announcement

Dear Parents and Students,

I am getting a lot of students complaining that they are missing grades on SIS.  They promised they turned it in but they have no grade.

These are the three options for them:
1.  Look in the "no name" file stapled to the wall underneath the light switch.  I have dozens of assignments in there.

2.  Look in their green file folders.  Some students think that if they keep it in their file folders, that is as good as turning it in.  I do not check file folder ever.  I only access their notebooks if I am doing a notebook check to see if they are keeping up on class notes.

3.  They get it returned to them WITH a score on them.  I admit there are times when I grade the assignment and for some reason it just doesn't make it into SIS.  The student needs to show me that assignment with the grade on it.  If they throw the assignment away, there is no way for me to know for sure.

Some students say I lost their work.  I can assure you that is is physically impossible for me to lose student work.  I keep assignments in a pouch that is zipped up.  The only reason I take the assignments out is to grade them.  Then I immediately put them back in the pouch.

In another matter, I am noticing that my sixth and eighth graders are turning in work with no basic conventions.  I expect each student to know how to use capitalization and basic punctuation.  From now on I am going to mark down 30 percent of the grade if these basic conventions are not followed.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,

Mrs. Martin