Mark Deductions?

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!