Need for clarification of high school policy regarding two related but independent items: 1- the effect of tardy, incomplete, or missing assignments on course grades; and 2- the effect of Missing/Incomplete grades on report card calculation and summary grades at quarter-end. We assume that a grade mark should indicate level of knowledge of the subject more than it indicates level of adult-responsibility. If a student does not complete an assignment, then the evaluation of student’s performance in the course is simply Incomplete. If the assignment is important, then the grade should simply remain Incomplete until the student completes the work and is assessed. If the assignment is not important, then it should not be counted at all in anyone’s course grade. In the real world, circumstances often compel us to assess a grade with incomplete knowledge — one could argue that all assessments are by definition incomplete to some extent, as we cannot tr...
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