length of your drop/add period?".
wrs
>>> On 10/6/2007 at 4:34 PM, in message
<DAC770CB601FB64FAFFC768D414D69A00245F7F5@CAEXCHANGE.cheshireacademy.lcl>,
"Hayes, Christopher" <christopher.hayes@cheshireacademy.org> wrote:
I am glad to be rejoining the list, now as the new Upper School
Director
at Cheshire Academy in Cheshire, CT.
I am curious about how schools handle course credit for late admits.
When students arrive at your school significantly after the drop/add
period for a marking period has ended, are they eligible to receive
letter grades, or are they placed on a pass/fail system until the
start
of the next full grading cycle?
Similarly, when a student is out for an extended period (several weeks
or more) for a medical or potential disciplinary situation, is there a
point at which you convert the student from letter grades to
pass/fail.
For me, there would seem to be a fundamental question about we value
time spent in class and how we weigh it against performance on
assessments, but I would be grateful for philosophical responses in
addition to procedural ones.
Thank you for any light that you can shed, and congratulations to you
if
you work at a school which has not had to consider admitting new
students during the school year.
Best,
Christopher
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