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School Board
Explains Grades
(From the Office of Palmer
School)
The grading policy of the Pal
mer school has been established
by the board of education as fol
lows:
100 - 94 A
93 - 84 B
83 - 76 C
75 - 70 D
70 - delow E or failure
A grade of E means that the
course must be repeated.
Any average below 84 is not
recommended for college wark.
Members of the board feel that
the established averages are very
lenient. It is possible that they
will have to be raised if criticism
comes from the accrediting as
sociation.
In most established grading
systems, an A is given only for
marks between 96 and 100. Usu
ally all grades below 75 are a
failure.
In reference to days of atten
dance and a passing mark, there
are 180 teaching days in a school
year, exclusive of legal holidays.
Students are required to spend at
least 146 of these days in school
or be required to repeat the
grade
This allows a student 30 full
days or IV2 school months time
in absences, with an opportunity
still to finish his work. Absences
are allowable only in cases of
sickness or unforseen emergen
cies. In no case is any student
permitted to be absent from
school, under school law, except
in cases of actual illness, death
in the family, or if the parent
has called at the office and given
a satisfactory reason for keep
ing the child out of school.
Members of the board of edu
cation also feel that this absence
policy of the Palmer school is
very lenient. Most schools re
quire that a pupil attend in ex
cess of 85 percent of the school
days taught. Some schools re
quire a 90 percent attendance
before promotion is permitted.
Whenever a pupil is absent
from school, he is required to
make up all of the work he
misses. However the value of
this make-up work is drastically
reduced, because the pupil misses
class time in which class discus
sion, projects and other planned
procedures tend to fix in his
mind information learned in
study periods.
Absence from school presup
poses loss, not only of study
periods, but of recitation work
as'well. Therefore make-up work
is reduced in value from one
third to one-half. In an attempt '
to establish a policy in the school
commensurate with the require
ments of accreditation, the board
of education has fixed a figure
at approximately 85 percent,
which is very liberal.
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