Sunday, December 2, 2007

Next time a student or parent asks for extra credit...

It happens near the end of each quarter....right after you are finishing up report cards and feel good about them. You get a note or phone call asking if there are any extra credit opportunities for their child. You are put in a tough spot....you are done with grades and don't want to mess around with an 11th hour grade change...after all the quarter was 9 weeks long. Why ask for extra credit at this point? It is awkward....you don't want to be mean...but you need to be realistic.

Perhaps next time you can offer any of these as extra credit assignments:
http://historycus.blogspot.com/2007/10/worlds-10-ancient-uncracked-codes.html

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am SO-O-O-O tempted! Hilarious!