Okay, you may think I'm crazy for thinking this, but I believe a student should receive no credit for an assignment that they choose not to complete or submit to their teacher when required. Now that just may seem incredibly ludicrous to you, but this is what seems ludicrous to me:
Many teachers, professors and educators are now choosing to give their students an "incomplete" when the student decides not to submit their assignments. So instead of the student receiving no credit for the assignment - and the punishment that becomes their grade - the student is instead given no grade whatsoever for the incomplete assignment, which in turn would not cause their grade to increase or decrease, which to me reflects no punishment for what was left undone!
In my opinion this is not the most effective idea, because a student can then choose to not submit an assignment, KNOWING full-well that they really will not be punished. Well, again in my opinion, even if this becomes a practiced idea in most classrooms, I will simply choose as an educator to not follow that new "practiced idea." I mean, come on! There are still teachers out there who use extra credit as an option in their classroom, while most teachers state that they do not "believe" in using extra credit in their classroom. *laughs,* so I will simply tell my students that I do not "believe" in not giving an actual grade.
Okay, so that's my rant on this subject.
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