Grades for Attendance Penalize Good Students
* Students are not “employees,” as Adrienne Mack implies (Valley Commentary, Oct. 17).
Teachers are employees. Administrators are employees. They should be fulfilling the needs of their clients--students and their parents. What lesson is Mack teaching by openly defying the district policy of providing makeup work to suit her personal agenda?
To put any weight on grades for attendance does nothing but penalize the students who “get the idea” the first time the teacher presents it and choose not to be exposed to endless reiteration. The bad student will flunk anyway, right? Besides, what does it tell us about the quality and urgency of our children’s attendance in school when some can miss 30 to 40 days a semester and still pass?
RICHARD CAMPBELL
Panorama City
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