In fact, according to a study at the University of Missouri, they found that many students forgot over two and one-half months of whatever their grade-level equivalency is in mathematics. (Wilkenfield) Plus after the summer vacation, many teachers end up spending from four to six weeks of the next school year trying to review what had happened in the previous years, says David Payne, a former principal. Summer vacation is one of the only major times that parents are able to travel or take vacations, however, year-round schooling which allows small breaks throughout the seasons. Also, travel rates during the summer are usually higher than other times of the year. When students return to school after a summer break, there is often a long time period of adjustment.
3. If late submission of assignments or other work is not accepted, students will receive a penalty of 100% after the due date and time ie a zero mark for the late assessment. 4. If late submission of assignments or other work is accepted, students will be penalised by ten percent per calendar day for a late assessment submission (eg a mark equivalent to 10% of the total allocated for the assessment will be deducted from the marked value for every day that the assessment is late). This means that an assignment worth 20 will have two marks deducted per calendar day late.
The grading scale for all exams, the class presentation, and the course is: A = 100 - 90 B = 89 - 80 C = 79 - 70 D = 69 - 60 F = 59 and below Make-Up Policy. The general make-up policy for work missed is the following: Exams: I drop the lowest exam grade and count the highest exam grade twice. No make-up is possible. Course Attendance and Withdrawal Policy. Attendance will be taken on a daily basis.
Marks will be deducted for lateness at the rate of 10% of the possible mark per working day, exhausting all possibility of any mark in two (2) weeks. Students should endeavour to be punctual for class as late arrivals disturb presentations and lectures. During class, mobile phones are to be switched to silent. Use of lap top computers and tablets (eg. iPad) are only to be used for class related activities.
Once a child is on a high school level they are the ones who are held responsible for their fines when found guilty of truancy. Unfortunately, these kids continue to skip school and feel they are above the law. With home foreclosures on an all time high, the city and school districts should be able to purchase these homes at a extremely discounted rate or lease these homes from the banks to be set up as truancy homes. After the first offense, it will be required that the child spend 30 days in a truancy home. They will be bused to and from school and their activities will be limited.
According to a study from Ohio State University, 76% of Amerasians wanted to meet their father when they got to the United States, only 30% even knew his name. About 22% had tried to contact their father and only 3% had succeeded in meeting him. "When you go from 76% of these children wanting to meet their fathers to only 3% actually doing it, it's not hard to see where this would cause psychological problems" (Bemak). Amerasian children were rejected by both the Vietnamese people and, for a time, the American government. It was not until almost 25 years after the war started that the U. S. Government passed legislation addressing the problem of what to do with the mass of fatherless children.
Prayer in public schools is a controversial topic that has taken top-billing on many of Americans minds. In the article, Banning Prayer in Public Schools Has Led to America’s Demise by Gary Bergel states in the first paragraph, “On June 25, l962, 39 million students were forbidden to do what they and their predecessors had been doing since the founding of our nation – publicly calling upon the name of the Lord at the beginning of each school day.” Bergel is attempting to state that America has decreased in morals since this date as well as forbidding prayer at that time. These are the first two incorrect points of this article. They are by no means the only ones but these will be the two major points of contention addressed. First, the date Bergel uses is in reference to the court case of Engel V. Vitale in New York.
They soon filed a suit in a New York State court to banned the prayer,they kept on insisting that the use of this prayer in the public schools was contrary to their own and their children's beliefs, religions, or religious practices. The separation of church and state says that government should stay out of the business of enforcing any religious activities no matter what the case is. The Board of education's prayer is quite simple and it violates the 1st Amendment and because of this should be banned
If there are a hundred plus people in each class, a semester will last on average thirteen to sixteen weeks and then factor in the pupils that drop the class, never show up, or do not actively participate, it would be almost impossible for someone to remember all those names. This makes
Students who were in chorus in 3rd grade at the primary school did not have another opportunity to participate in chorus until the 9th grade! When they pulled the sixth grade out of the traditional middle school setting, they did not even consider the beginner band program, which begins in 6th grade, so therefore there was no beginner band program offered to sixth graders for two years. This severely impacted the growth of the high school band over the next six years. The district tried to add a new school and make changes to the activity classes without adding any additional teachers, and the results were disastrous. This move resulted in a middle and high school certified band director having to go down to the primary school and teach 1st grade general music instead of going to the elementary school and teaching beginner band.