BWSD Offers Assignment Amnesty Through Oct. 25

Press release from the Baldwin-Whitehall School District:

Oct. 17, 2020

In an effort to demonstrate gracious understanding of the challenges of these times and difficulty adapting to all-new ways of learning—with particular emphasis reported in the areas of accessing and submitting assignments, a plan has been thoughtfully discussed and approved to support students with these challenges.

Dr. Lutz announced that effective immediately, teachers will be reopening their gradebooks – with the opportunity for all students, all grades to be encouraged to submit any late or missed work from the period of September 8, 2020 through October 14, 2020 without penalty. The due date for all missed work is October 25, 2020. Teachers will be communicating this directly with students and will reinstate any lost points for work submitted during this period.

Moving forward to preserve academic integrity, it will be required that any student experiences access or submission issues must contact the teacher directly at the time of difficulty no matter when it occurs. By reporting difficulty immediately within Canvas, a timestamp of the problem is created which helps us evaluate technical issues and work individually with the student towards a solution.

The "amnesty" period for missed/late assignments will not disrupt report card distribution set for November 16, 2020.

Prepared for the October issue of Highlander Highlights.Published 10/17/2020.

This press release was produced by the Baldwin-Whitehall School District. The views expressed here are the author’s own.