Your Current Grades Reflect That.
Dear Dylan,
Attached are your current grades.
In an attempt to show you what I’ve been talking about, I am giving you a visual aid. If you do SCHOOL FIRST, your best will come naturally. In fact, YOUR CURRENT GRADES REFLECT THAT.
I took these grades directly from Edline. These are YOUR GRADES. You have some E’s and Z’s to take care of NOW (or you don’t get your phone this weekend) but you ALSO have a ton of good work that we rarely recognize (because we EXPECT that). We need to start recognizing your GOOD work more often!
All I did was separate out the things you turned in late, or didn’t turn in at all, from the GOOD work you did. I separated out the things you DID finish, and DID turn in on time, from the stuff you didn’t. It gives you two different pictures of the SAME GRADES.
There is STILL TIME. You still have a few weeks to step up and change “the way it is.” And if you do, the LAST PAGE is how your transcript CAN look at the end of THIS year.
I am not showing you this because “you don’t already know.” It is just a visual aid. It is just a visual picture of what YOU can accomplish if you put SCHOOL FIRST. It is the difference between what you’ve been doing and what you can do. Take a look.
then….
I attached Dylan’s grades to this letter – six pages from this quarter. But I split them into two sections: the work he had turned in on time, and the work he had not turned in on time. Then I actually pulled out a calendar and tallied his grades for the quarter. Then I wrote out his grades for his entire transcript.
The results were astounding.
Based on only the work Dylan turned in on time, Dylan has four A’s and three B’s for the quarter. Based on only the work Dylan turned in late, he has one A, two B’s, three C’s and a D for the quarter.
Exams are next week – and they represent a third of his quarter grade. With serious study and work, he could pull those grades up. When I calculated his final grades for his full transcript, pulling up his grades NOW is the difference between a college transcript with five A’s and five B’s – and a transcript with two A’s, five B’s and three C’s.
I don’t know if the visual aid helped Dylan. But it sure helped me.