Thread: Homework Policy?

What is your school's policy on missing homework? I implemented my own policy, on top of our school policy, because I feel the school policy just doesn't work.

The school policy dictates that if homework isn't turned in, it's an automatic "0" with no chance to make it up or turn it in late for any partial credit. After four "unprepareds", the student is referred for an after-school detention. Another detention is given at six, and then a parent meeting is "requested" at eight. The meeting can simply be a phone call.

My new torture...umm.... policy is more immediate. If a child doesn't have thier homework or at least half of it, they receive a slip from me. It must be taken home and signed by a parent, and then turned in the following day with the completed homework for half credit. If the slip AND homework both do not come back in, they have lunch detention that day with me. They sit at a table with me, eat, and then get to work immediately on their homework. There is no talking at the table, nor with other friends in the cafeteria. If they turn it in from lunch, it's half credit. If they don't, it's a "0". (I'm very persuasive though, and they normally just do it to shut me up. :twisted: ) And, when I do this, the principal and superintendent (it's a small district) usually come over from their table to see "who I've got today." *evillaugh*

My system of forced parental acknowledgement vs. public humiliation in front of their peers is working.

Since I did that, I've had kids doing their homework consistently for the first time since school began. Other teachers have begun to take notice and a couple are going to try it next semester to see how it works for them. And, unfortunately, I know there are some who are not happy that I'm not following school policy.

I'm just wondering what other middle school policies are. The one I implemented was adapted from my daughter's middle school. I think it helps to know what other schools are doing.

Charlotte