Deadline Policy

Homeschooled students often don't have experience with hard deadlines.  Most adults probably agree that meeting deadlines is a necessary discipline. Ninth and tenth graders have different abilities to handle workloads and deadlines.  This course provides students the structure yet grace to learn how to work with complex workloads and deadlines.  My mission is for each student to make personal improvement in these skills throughout the year no matter the starting point.  For some students it may be learning how to organize papers in a binder; for others it may be developing the skills to handle assignments at the community college in the 11th grade or a private high school.  

Deadlines are provided for each type of assignment but there are no point deductions for most assignments if they are submitted late. Students who want to shoot for excellence should strive to treat these "deadline" as hard deadlines; many students are able to do this.   

Assignments and their deadlines are provided each week via an emailed checklist as well as on Google Classroom. The Google Classroom format will prepare students for Blackboard, Brightspace, or other online programs that colleges use to post assignments and grades.  Students who opt to use Google Classroom will also see their grades before the next class period.