Frequently Asked Questions: This page contains answers to commonly asked 
questions of students and parents.

1. Is there any extra credit available to raise my grammar grade?
2. What happens if I can not access my child's grades online?
3. What does a blank mean in my child's grammar grades online?

Is there any extra credit available to raise my grammar grade?

Yes, this year we will have an opportunity to write to both 
former students at GSS who have been deployed to Iraq and 
Afghanistan as well as some other soldiers whose families have 
requested our support. Their mailing addresses are posted on my 
web under the icon, "Adopt our Soldiers" as soon as their 
families send them to me.  Students may write to them and receive 
100 additional classwork points for each letter they submit.  
There is a limit of 1 correspondence to each soldier per grading 
period. 
     The students are also able to write letters to an Iraqi 
family that has recently come to live in the US.  See my "We Are 
Called" section for more information about this family.

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What happens if I can not access my child's grades online?

If you have difficulty getting into your child's online grades, 
please contact Mr. Schuler. I make every effort to get my papers 
and tests graded and posted as soon as I can so they can be sent 
to the online gradebook. If you continue to have problems, please 
let me know as well.  It is our intention that you should have 
frequent weekly updates on your child's grades in all classes 
each week.  Thank you for your patience as we continue to deal 
with the occasional technological "glitch" in this process!

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What does a blank mean in my child's grammar grades online?

Blanks are not computed into an average in grammar.  Blanks 
indicate that at least 1 student in your child's class received 
a "0" for not turning in the homework for credit.  Unfortunately, 
I can not isolate just one student for this grade, so the listing 
is included for all students in the class. Note the heading of HW 
or homework, and this will tell you that it was a homework 
assignment that was not turned in during class.  
 If the heading is CW or classwork, your child will probably be 
making up the work due to absence. If it is a test, your child 
will also make up the test once he/she is back in class.

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