<p>i mean…if the EC is offered to everyone then it’s fair
and for going to games and plays…it’s your choice whether or not to go and if you can’t go one time then just wait for another EC to roll around
i think it’s perfectly fine…i really don’t understand how that would be unfair
the bringing a box of kleenex in isn’t too weird
for chem everyone had to bring in a roll of paper towels for homework…
i’m pretty sure if your school was impoverished a teacher wouldn’t ask
and you could always just ask the nurse for a box of kleenex and then give it to your teacher…it’s not a big deal at all
if anything you should be excited or happy that it’s worth that many extra points…</p>
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<p>Wow, haha, that I definitely wasn’t expecting. Yes, my grades are decent, but that has nothing to do with it. And if you’re curious, if I had participated in the extra credit scenario that I listed above, I could have bumped up my grade from a A- to an A. I would have done it if I didn’t see anything wrong with it or if I had the money, neither of which was the case. Extra credit IS significant. </p>
<p>I’m not saying don’t offer extra credit, by NO means. I love extra credit. What I’m saying is, don’t offer extra credit that isn’t available to everyone. REPLACE those BS “assignments”–BRIBES–with academic assignments. </p>
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–which, to an extent, was the case at my school. If you were from the west side of town, you had money, and your house was probably worth upwards of $200,000. If you lived on the east side of town, you essentially lived in southwest Detroit. Both of these areas were included in my school, and I wouldn’t say that one was included more than the other. </p>
<p>But regardless, this isn’t a private school. For all my teachers could have known, my mom could have been a broke coke head living with her friends and we still could have been broke. What business is that of my teachers in a public school?</p>
<p>And in the end, I don’t understand why people think it’s so necessary to offer this kind of extra credit. What’s wrong with academic assignments?</p>
<p>And for the person who said that I could just ask a nurse for extra credit, well, to be honest, that would be quite awkward and I doubt that she would have been willing to give all 8 of us kids who couldn’t afford the Kleenex a whole box of it. </p>
<p>And additionally, my teacher flat out said that we couldn’t bring trial sized things in (she was asking for toiletries)–she said that the item HAD to be full sized. Unappreciative much?</p>
<p>I disagree with the practice.</p>
<p>I agree wholeheartely with your response ASC, that my parents could be broke and on drugs, trying but failing miserably, to pull things together, and it’s not their bussiness to know either. </p>
<p>I hate the practice. I believe, also, the academic assignments should be values over something as stupid as going to the store and buying something, or having to worry about finding a way home because you catch the bus.</p>
<p>Wrong for many reasons.
- Discriminating against students based on wealth.
- If grades are supposed to be some sort of reflection of a combination of academic achievement and level of effort put forth, this undermines such measurements.
- In school, one students gain is another’s loss ultimately. That is why extra credit should be held up to the same standards as the rest of the academic work.</p>
<p>Yet another reason I can’t take the education system seriously.</p>
<p>no its called the barter system. your trading something for school points. and the only ppl who really do it are the ones who gets A’s.</p>