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To: Lane3 who wrote (78281)	10/23/2003 3:44:51 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

You've assumed too much about what I do. We're talking about passing a class with a C- or D. There is no way a student can get an A from me with lots of late work. That's the way I teach "real life" and "values". The question I am interested in, is do you make them repeat the class? I feel that is a waste. And of course they have to get some work in- but it's late work. Usually produced on my lunch hour, while I stand over them with my whip. I wouldn't know what they knew if they didn't do something (except for the testing info)- but they do it late. I wouldn't pass a student who did nothing. Being in my class they have to work for 90 minutes a day, and they all have notebooks which I keep in class, with examples of in class work. Brian comes to class every day. Hasn't missed a day. He also contributes a lot orally. I should have mentioned that. But there is so much that goes in to the equation, and I forget you don't know what it's like.

To: Lane3 who wrote (78281)	10/24/2003 12:24:16 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

In the early 1970s I was part of a three-person team which was given a year to develop an entirely new curriculum for a private boarding high school. The primary conclusion I reached was that the one thing -- and indeed the only thing -- you can guarantee that a student will learn at school is how to survive in the school environment. Therefore, you have to decide what the critical things you want a student to learn are and design the school in such a way that the student has to learn those simply to survive at the school.