Students who are absent or late not only hurt their own progress but also negatively affect the class a whole: instructors are forced to either drop what they're doing and 'catch up' the absent/late student... or leave that student to catch up on their own. Since both scenarios are unsatisfactory, Prepare urges students NOT to take this prep class unless they can accommodate ALL of the classes in a given session. Still, since Life Happens (!), here are Prepare's attendance guidelines:
* Being on-time means being in your classroom seat or in front of your switched-on Zoom camera when the scheduled hour strikes. There are no valid excuses for being late, so students are urged to leave plenty of leeway for traffic or log in/WiFi issues.
* Being late, or leaving early, by 0-15 minutes counts as half an absence. Being late or leaving early more than 15 minutes counts as a whole absence.
* Students cannot accumulate 2.0 absences for any reason. If they do, they must leave the session and start over again in a subsequent sessions—for an additional $50 curriculum fee.
* Students can erase an absence by scheduling an individual makeup class (online) for $200—if the instructor can accommodate the student within his schedule before the next class.
* Students routinely have 1-1.5 hour of homework that they must turn via email or text by 9 pm Sunday evening for a Sunday class, or 9 pm the next night for a weeknight class.
* The instructor will send his notes back to the student, who is then responsible for submitting corrections by 9 pm the next evening.
* Students are encouraged to ask for help via email or text BEFORE they turn in their homework.
* Late homework will not be accepted.
* Students who attend Freedom, Lehigh Valley Academy, Liberty, Moravian Academy, Nazareth and Saucon Valley receive a $50 'host-school' discount. The host-school discount does not apply to students who reside in these districts but do not attend one of the listed schools.
* Students take a vocab/math quiz every Sunday. If they study a bit every weekday, they should be able to finish these quizzes in five minutes and score at least 80% on both quizzes.
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