Haake/Shepard Homework Policy

Homework teaches responsibility and helps students develop positive study habits!

Student's Homework Responsibilities:

Students are expected to do their best on their homework, be neat, and complete it on time. They should keep a daily assignment book and check it daily with their parents. They should do the work on their own and only ask for help after they have given it their best effort. Students who are absent are responsible for collecting their homework immediately when they return. If a student is absent, assignments may be picked up at the office after 2:45. The office is open from 2:45 – 4:30 to pick up homework. Parents will need to collects books from the student’s locker.

Parent's Homework Responsibilities:

Parents are the key to making homework a positive experience for their children. Homework should be a top priority. Necessary supplies and a quiet environment should be made available for the child. It is a good idea to set a daily homework time, provide praise, and support. Do not let your child avoid homework nor provide excuses when work is not completed on time. You should always be able to ask your child to see the day's assignments in his/her assignment book and check that those assignments are completed. You may also check daily homework assignments posted on our websites at www.cartervillelions.com.

**For your information--the school is almost always accessible--if you hear "I left it at school", you can always go back to the school, find a custodian, and get the necessary supplies to complete the assignment on time. Monitor the time spent on homework. If you notice that your child consistently has more then 50 minutes of homework a night, please let us know so that we might find out what the problem is.

Teacher's Homework Responsibility:

We try to provide sufficient class time to complete most of the homework given at school. The average student should have no more than 50 minutes of homework a night. Some students may have more or less depending on writing speed and ability level. Completed work will be checked. If work is not completed on time, it will be considered late and the grade will be dropped 20%. That means that instead of making a possible 100 points for an assignment the student will automatically be given an 80% before grading begins. The second day work is late the grade will be a zero.

Late Work

In order to keep late work to a minimum, we provide lots of support to the students. We each write all work on the board and give verbal reminders. The students write their assignments in their assignment books, which we initial every day and ask that parents do the same. We also post our homework on www.cartervillelions.com. When students have missing work we send notes home in the assignment books and have the student call home as a reminder. We would love to have no late work! That is our goal. When there is not late work, everyone is happy!!!

Rewards, praise, and privileges will be given to student who have work completed on time.