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What Would You Do?

Hypothetical Situation:

Let’s say that at some point, you receive a notice asking for the week’s class work for a student. You receive these notices on a regular basis and about half the time the work sits in the front office for a week until it is throw away, uncollected. As you looked at this notice you realize that it is for a student who has already missed 37 days in a eight week period. This student has also approximately 2 grades in the grade book – they were tests – and has not turned in assignment this semester. And it is the third time said student has been enrolled in Freshman English.
The school secretary calls your room to inform you that this student’s parent is in the office and is wanting the school work from your classroom. Do you interrupt what you are doing with your class and gather work for the student? Or do you inform the secretary that you are too busy to gather work at this point for a student who will not complete anything sent anyways?
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Jill said…
You tell the office that you are happy to provide work once the previous work is returned so you can accurately assess the student's current educational progress. Once a parent requests work and they fail to pick it up three times, no further requests are honored. It's one of the few things I agree with that they have changed recently.
11:43 AM
Nacho Lover said…
heh. you could just grab a textbook/reading book and assign a bunch of chapters at random! since it'll never come back anyway and then you can record that so-and-so didn't complete xyz unit(s).
but really, what a waste of teacher time. :(
10:09 AM
Jenna said…
sadly... we would never send a textbook/reading book to a student as it would never been seen again.

It really is quite shocking how much our district has to spend on replacing books every year. But the attitude is that "we don't pay for it... so why care?"
10:40 AM
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