General Guidelines

The following guidelines are adapted in part or in whole from the FCPS Grading and Reporting to Parents Handbook, September 2001. Please refer to the course syllabus for detailed information concerning makeup work.

Homework and independent practice make up an essential component of the learning process for students.

When students are absent, an opportunity to make up work shall be provided. For excused absences, makeup work receives credit; for unexcused absences, makeup work receives no credit. All students should check their teacher’s Blackboard.com sites for assignments when absent.

Students who are absent one day...

will take previously announced quizzes and tests and hand in previously assigned work the day they return to class.

Assignments made and/or quizzes/tests given in their absence should be made up upon returning to school.

Students who are absent for multiple days...

are afforded one day of makeup for each day missed. The student is responsible for conferring with the teacher to arrange a make-up schedule.

Again, work previously assigned is due the day of the student's return.

If long-term assignments carry a deadline, as opposed to a due date, students are expected to send the assignment to school if they are absent.

In the case of pre-arranged absences...

students will deliver to teachers all previously assigned work due during their absence the day they return.

A student who checks-in or leaves early...

is required to hand in assigned work and make up quizzes/tests on that day. The following are examples of this situation: a field trip; medical appointment; excused tardy; or clinic visit.

Under extenuating circumstances, at the discretion of the teacher, an extension may be granted for any of these different conditions. Students have the responsibility for discussing these extenuating circumstances with the teacher.