I honestly do not think that because it is June and crazy and overwhelming and hot that this idea is bothering me.  It happens all year, it just seems more annoying at this time of year.  I have a handful of students who I have given a grace period on an assignment that was due April 3rd.  We are now past June 3rd.  That is two months people!  Never did I give the grace period for this long, it has just turned out this way! How long should I wait and wait and wait?!  Each day these students will tell me the assignment is still not completed.  However, they will report to work on time after school and will have their cell phone attached to their hip and will listen to their I-pod when ever they get the chance, but school work is just placed on the back burner?!  I guess it has to do with graduation.   Some of these students happen to be seniors.  Is it better to  hold a student back for one class?  But the other part of me is asking, what exactly are we teaching these students??  We are supposed to be preparing these young adults for the real world right?  In these instances, we are not doing that!  Administrators want higher standards and high expectations and honors classes, yet due dates aren’t kept, policies and procedures are not followed.  So, why do we have such things if in the long run, they aren’t followed?!  One student who had until today at 2:00 to turn in this two month old assignment had staff members typing it for him????????  Outrageous! I have continually wrestled with this idea all year.  In the classes where I have implemented a no late policy, students say they really like it and work does get turned in.  My seniors in my college credit class wish all classes would do this and that it should be for all of high school.  I  can certainly sympathize with a student in an extreme case.  But, define extreme case?  Here we go again!