Homework Guidelines
Homework Policy 6154
An important part of your success as a student is dependent upon your ability to study independently. Homework helps to reinforce your understanding of what you have been taught in the classroom. Every student will receive a student agenda. Its purpose is to teach and encourage the practice of good study skills. Recording your assignments on a daily basis gives you and your parents the information you need to successfully plan and complete your homework assignments. Parents / guardians should insist that students use this book and check daily assignments.
Homework Requests – When a student is out sick
If your child is out sick from school for three days or less and able to complete work, please have them reach out to their teacher via email and check Microsoft TEAMS.
If your child is absent for an extended period of time( four days or more) and is able to do some work at home, please contact the house office to request homework assignments. The following information will be needed:
1. Student’ s full name 2. Student’ s grade and homeroom 3. The first day the student was out of school and how long the absence will be
Teachers will need at least 24 hours to gather materials, and the house office will coordinate a time for when the work will be ready for pickup.
Upon return from an absence, it is the student’ s responsibility to ask teachers what materials and information have been missed and to make arrangements to make up lost work. Work is to be made up within a timeframe coordinated between the teacher and the student. Generally, when a student is out sick, they are given a day for each day absent to make up the work.
Unacceptable or Missing Homework
Each student is fully responsible for all homework. Assignments missed as a result of an excused absence should be handled on an individual basis. The reason for the student’ s absence should be strongly considered by the teachers when establishing deadlines for submitting homework that was unacceptable or missing. Students returning to school after an absence will meet with their teacher( s) to determine what homework was missed and to establish a schedule for completion of assignments. It will also be determined at that time whether after-school help is necessary. In the case of a known illness, the parent / guardian / student should contact the teacher( s) to arrange for make-up assignments during the period of absence. Teachers shall remind students of their responsibility to complete all homework and shall explain the effect of missing, incomplete, or unacceptable homework on their grades. If a pattern of incomplete homework persists, the teacher shall inform the parent or guardian. If homework continues to be a problem after initial
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