During the past few years teachers have tried to find a way to encourage the students to always do their homework and turn it in on time. Last year we had a very harsh policy, if you didn't turn your homework in the due date you got a zero. Many student's average went down because of that, because sometimes there was some incident or doughts and the homework wasn't completed. This year we have a better policy. If a student doesn't complete their homework they get a zero until they do turn it in and no points are taken off the homework. Now we have something called the Work Habits grades which is the one affected when we don't turn something in. The teachers will give you a zero in the work habits section but you can still get full credit for your homework. The only problem we are having this year is study session. Study session is kind of what we used to call detention, but now it is given por practically anything. If you don't complete your homework you get a study session to be completed during luch or afterschool, there you have to do your homework and write a reflection about why you didn't do it. But study sessions are also earned by tardies and bad behavior, so many students earn themselves the study session slip every day. We have practically no more line during lunch because everyone is at study session. The school should try to figure out why so many people are earning themselves one, because they are so many students that two rooms have to be used. Some teachers are exaggerating about giving them out, and I think that is one of the main problems.
What form does this exaggeration take? Do you mean writing behavior slips for minor incidents, or is this related to the late work?
ReplyDeleteMore for the minor incidents, like if you are already in class but they give you a study session because you weren't in your seat right when the bell rang,things like that.
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