How do we measure a student's success?

At our online school, we live and die by a student’s success or failure... if they fail, they almost never re-enroll. We want to let parents know that we will do whatever we can to help their child succeed.

We have a different ministry than an onsite school. An onsite school teacher has certain obligations to the other students in their class - a need to demonstrate 'fairness'. But at Eagle, we deal with some students who have failed at onsite schools and parents are looking for help in turning their children around. We can be flexible... i.e. granting extensions beyond the semester for students who want to complete their assignments. As long as a student is willing to keep working... we will never give up on them. We also need to disciple them to realize that lazy efforts receive lazy grades (even at times an F). Some students merely need to learn this crucial lesson - they must 'own' their schooling experience and put forth effort to earn credit. However, part of our job is to balance this need for learning responsibility with the need for encouragement and success. I'm afraid at times that I've been too busy with everything else to work at listening and communicating with students and parents. In order for Eagle to succeed (grow numerically as well as student achievement), I need to be in contact with those who are struggling academically - they may be smart, but have poor work habits. They may have come from a difficult home situation (like kids at COLT). But while they're here, we need to find a way to make them successful and teach them the academic and life skills they need to succeed.

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