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Homework credits
My son has almost the same issues. Except I will not allow for late homework to be credited. Although I just attended an IEP for him yesterday. The ‘gen’l. ed. teacher was in attendance (his history teacher) said he would accept late homework for partial credit to get the grade up for the end of year, but that others may not. They all said when asked before the meeting they know he has the ability and knows the work, he just doesn’t get it done. IEP team realizes, as stated and shown by his Learning Ed./Resource Teacher, that he has the type of personality that gets more done when in a rush, rush situation with lots of pressure to complete (he is a major procrastinator of stuff he doesn’t like to do). He always thinks and tries to complete all work at the end of a marking period to bring his grade up. Can’t seem to make him understand that if he did the work and turned it in on time, his grade would be sooooooo much higher without all the last minute rushing. We moved to a smaller/poorer school district and yet, I find that I am getting better feedback, more care and concern from teachers, better accommodations (they even offered to get the teachers to accept late work, added quieter environment for testing, lets him work in resource room with his MP3 player in his ears and work with him to find ways to make more use of his learning center time—when larger district (supposedly with more ‘experience’) found he needed more redirection they threw that back to him to handle (that’s part of the reason he is in learning center!). I am so impressed with the IEP team, they are thorough, polite, willing to try what they can without creating additional cost, care about the kid. Maybe some of the ‘richer’ districts could learn a thing or two from these people.
Sorry, anyway, you have the legal right to ask for any accommodation. It depends upon how you request it, how it is worded, whether you monitor it with Each Teacher, and whether your IEP team is willing to accommodate or just wants to push you and your child to: a) move to another school; or b) see her quit so they don’t have to deal with one more ‘special’ kid. Make it what businesses today call a S M A R T goal. Give it a timeframe, like within 5 weeks, homework will be accepted for .5 grade after 3 days over; or, depending upon grading, late homework will be graded with loss of 2 points per day. Write a proposal @ home before you go so that you feel comfortable asking for the accommodation, listing goals (make it weeks, not marking periods—remember don’t go overboard, make it something that can work and not a lifetime request). This is a no-cost accommodation, just an adjustment of grading completed work. If you can give a good proposal it may be considered. But if your daughter isn’t willing to make it work, you need to understand whose homework it really is. Yours or your daughters’. W/my son, the school offers an additional period at the end of the day for anyone needing additional assistance, tutoring, whatnot. He is now being scheduled to attend a different class for each day of the week in the 9th period. Sure, he loses the hometime, but that’s his fault, not mine or his teachers. This way he may be able to get it done! He was there, he agreed. He actually discussed some of this w/his Resource Teacher earlier in the day. And it actually works some of the time. Make sure your daughter is on board and understands her responsibility in the IEP too.
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3 Apr 2009 @ 2:09 AM
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