Exempting finals in high school?

compmom
Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:24:58 +0000

This policy is discriminatory against students with chronic illnesses, who have 504 plans that allow them to be in and out of school more than others. The Federal Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights would actually investigate this, if someone asked them to. Seriously. Unless it could be written into someone’s 504 plan that they are exempt from the exams regardless of attendance.

Prizes for perfect attendance have always bothered me, and I have read that the swine flu panic is persuading many schools to eliminate this award.

Aside from all that, I have never heard of exam exemptions, and think it is a bad idea in terms of learning. Studying for finals is when a student kind of puts it all together.