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Here is a link to the syllabus for the course I teach:

http://www.webster-info.org/Syllabi.asp?CID=2161

On about the third screen down, depending on your font and window sizes, you will see a 50 page reading assignment, a study guide assignment, and three problems to be submitted by Email BEFORE the first class.

This kid would NOT get any sympathy from me.

I had a parent complain to me about her junior-high son being given a homework assignment on the first day of class this school year. The first day! Oh, the horror! Apparently none of the kid's other teachers gave out any homework for at least a few days so the kids could get back into the routine of school. (rolling eyes)

This is the arrogance of the state at work. Once again, the primary persons responsible for educating children are the parents. Teachers act in locus parenti, not the other way around.

But, since schools are publicly funded and bolstered by statute, teachers have adopted the stance that they are empowered to dictate to children and parents
what is best for them. The modern public schools are, in fact, state schools, where students go to be brainwashed into accepting secular humanism, statism, and the related notion that the authority of the state is the supreme reality. Those who act on behalf of the state to educate the children in those institutions are in a hallowed caste, becaus they create the statist pawns that enable the government to reign supreme.

If you measure victory in the Cold War by which system's ideas have prevailed, we must award the victory to Communism. If you think we are free, ponder the thought that where statism reigns, people have ceased to be free. And when state sponsored teachers can supplant the parents in the matter of rendering education, it is a sign of statism.

I hope this parent prevails, for no other reason except to win a much needed victory over the tyranny of the state.

I agree. This business about saying the school has no "authority" to assign work is absurd. Work can be assigned over breaks, like spring or Christmas, and in the summer. The school can set the standards to whatever the school feels is necessary. They may not be able to compel attendance, but the work is fair game.

Grading ScaleLetter Calculation
94 - 100 A
90 - 93 A-
87 - 89 B+
84 - 86 B
80 - 83 B-
70 - 79 C
00 - 69 F

Whoa! That's the toughest scale I've ever seen. 69 an F? That's sometimes a C+ depending on the prof and curve