The Power of Flour

Last week, Little Kat got assigned some homework called Flour Power. He was planning to turn it in on time this week. However the kids in his class complained and got the teacher to extend the deadline by two days. Due to Little Kat's poor homework management skills this quarter, he has a lot of oversight from me now.

Every day Little Kat prints out all his grades for all his classes. This is available online. We compare all the grades that we have been tracking. We also keep an eye out for new grades assigned. Today we detected that Little Kat got a zero on his Flour Power assignment. Yesterday the grade was not zero. The teacher must have netered the grade in the last 24 hours.

Little Kat says he turned the assignment in on time based on the two day deadline extension. So I told Little Kat to email his teacher immediately. It should be fresh in the teacher's mind. This is our new process working to detect teacher errors. Because a few weeks from now, Little Kat will not know the details of this assignment, and would be in a bad position to contest the bad mark he did not deserve.

The goal is for me to teach Little Kat to be able to track these grades by himself, so he can keep on top of any teacher errors (and any surprise assignments that pop up online).