Purpose
The purpose of the recovery procedure is to give students the opportunity
to improve their grades.
Definitions
- A failing grade is any grade of 69 or below.
- A significant decline in cumulative grade is defined as a decline
in the cumulative grade of ten or more points.
- A cumulative grade includes at least two major grades. A change
in the cumulative grade cannot be determined until the third major
grade is recorded.
Guidelines
- Teachers are required to give students interim progress reports
(i.e., between regular reporting periods) if a student’s cumulative
grade is 74 or below. Parents and students are encouraged to use
Parent Connect frequently to keep track of student performance.
- It is the student’s responsibility to ask the teacher for a recovery
assignment.
- The student must have completed all work required to date and put
forth effort to meet all course requirements including attendance
(no more than three unexcused absences per six weeks for traditional
schedule schools, two per four and one-half weeks for block high
schools and middle schools).
- Students must complete all recovery assignments before the last
ten days of the semester. Consequently, there is no recovery opportunity
for the final exam.
- Because the End of Course Tests are state-regulated and secured,
there is no recovery for the End of Course Test where it applies.
- Recovery opportunities must be directly related to the unit of
study’s objectives for which the recovery is sought.
- The grade will be the average of the initial and recovery assessment
and will replace the initial grade.
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