Okay so what
pisses me off makes me upset about the "Final Exemptions" are as follow:
- The rules aren't clear.
- Unexcused and excused absences are grouped into the same category.
- The fact there is a project in place of the assignment.
- You can only "exempt" one of your finals.
- Seniors get to exempt four finals rather than two.
Starting with the rules being unclear, what the hell. No one told my about the final exemptions until I finally heard the rumor of these alleged waivers that would get you out of a 100 question test, and all you have to do is earn them. (I then asked a teacher about this rumor and she shrugged her shoulders at me...) Yes, I understand you have to have some sort of guide lines to these waivers I mean, ideally that's the point. Administrators do not care about the pressure of students having to take consecutive two-hour-long tests that are worth 1/4 of the students semester average, where the teachers don't hand out reviews until a week or so before. They are doing this for those slacker students who don't push themselves to get good grade because they only come to school because they have to. (Which B-T-DUBS, those students are NOT going to try any harder. They'd probably rather fail a test than do a long project over the material. They aren't trying in the first place so why "waste their time" on a long project.) Though maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's going to work in keeping kids inline so they get the privilege of doing a project. :-)
Secondly, the fact that any kind of absences is "unexcused" as far as these waivers go is so ridiculous. I already have absences due to a field trip and it's like the 4th week of school. And 3 tardies = 1 absences??? Yup. I was 2 minutes late, then 1 minute, then 3 minutes. 6 minutes less of class = being gone for an hour and a half. You are right. You are all right. Sorry I ever questioned anyone. :-/ I guess where this number is coming from is the rule that as long as you make it to class within the first 30 minutes it's considered late and not absent, and 30 min x 3 tardies = 90 min = 1 class period. But for those of us who struggle to get from the locker room (where I'm not a magician, my clothes don't just poof on when I walk into the room) to the third floor that's on the opposite end of the locker room, so I'm constantly tardy to that class.
UPDATE: Okay, so now the rules are a little more clear seeing as I had an interview with Compian. There has to be a project because AISD doesn't permit any exemptions from finals. So instead we are using a model after Anderson High School's final "waiver" system. Where students do a "culminating project" that represents what you learned throughout the semester for a grade that will show up as your final grade.
So project, no longer bothers me. Attendance does get anger me to an extreme. If I'm making a good grade in the class, why does it matter how often I was there to get the grade? And what about the fact you have to have a doctors note to excuse illness. Sorry I didn't pay to go to the doctor when I had a 24 hour stomach virus. :\ I guess I won't be staying home for cold/headaches anymore though.
This is just a photo of how I feel about tests. I hate tests. A lot.
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Finally the first month after summer where the weather isn't exceeding 100 degrees. While it's not too hot, it isn't too cold either! Its perfectly windy, cool weather for the majority of the month. Also, because it's windy, the pretty Autumn leaves are everywhere and who doesn't love playing in leaves?
