Wednesday September 24,
2014
Deducting Marks From Late Assignments
You forgot to hand in your
math assignment on time and your teacher deducts 5 marks. Fair? Or did you have
an important reason why it wasn't handed in on time? In this generation,
students do not take into consideration of their assignment due dates. That is why
I agree with this article. Teachers should deduct credits if students are consistently
absent and they should deduct marks for late assignments. Teachers should also
pay attention to student’s activity to better understand the patterns that they
form.
I absolutely agree that
teachers should deduct marks for late assignments. Some people may argue that
the students are just learning and that do not need added pressure such as due
dates. However, the whole point of education is to prepare yourself for life
ahead of you. It only makes sense to simulate this system in order to minimize
the mistakes that you would make in real-life situations. For an example, the
parents would be furious if a teacher did not finish the report cards on time.
Although it is suddenly ‘acceptable’ if the student does not finish the
assignment on time. The idea is to develop time management skills as soon as
you can.
Ken Coran’s survey gives me an
even better understanding to why the school boards across Canada should allow a
penalty for late assignments. He quoted, “Of the 562 who responded, 62 percent of
the rule had resulted in a higher level of absenteeism and 84 percent said that
they had experienced an increase of late assignments.” This information clearly
determines if the rule is lifted. Students will start getting lazy, and potentially
skip school for they feel that their classes are not important anymore. The students
took advantage of the teacher’s disadvantage. In other words, they used and abused the rule by
handing in their assignments late.
I absolutely agree with the
following. “For the first time, students who miss 20 percent of class time will
now lose a credit.” I agree with it because if a student is absent for the
majority/a lot of the time, they will miss a lot of important information. If they
miss most of the information, what benefits have they gotten for attending that
class? It only makes sense to re-do that class. People may think that this is
too harsh but, they simply did not show up to class for 1/5 of the school year.
Although we
have fun at school, we also need to work hard. Without hard work, nothing can
really be done. Sometimes students forget that there will ALWAYS be consequences
for your actions and they need a little reminder that will wake them up. Your
hard work will always pay off in the end, because as the saying goes; you
snooze, you lose!
