The third nine-week grading period comes to an end Friday as students head out for spring break March 7-11. However, recent bad weather days may have complicated the process for some. 

“I wouldn’t have minded the grading period over if we hadn’t had all of the snow days off. That kind of put my kids at a disadvantage,” physics teacher Callie Nelson said. “Then Wednesday was another A day and it was the SAT, so with it being a junior heavy class it was kind of hard to get their grades to where they need to be.”

A different approach to grading helped physics students keep pace heading into the end of the grading period. 

“Physics is grading things a little bit differently than some of the other departments because we’re piloting a one-grading category instead of having minors and majors, everything falls into topics,” Nelson said. “It kind of helped us out a little bit because we didn’t have to meet necessarily the same work quantity a lot of the other classes have to meet. We had topics, so they didn’t have as much work to catch up on, thankfully.”

But as the clock ticks down to the start of spring break, many students are less concerned about grades than they are with the week-long break. 

“I’m excited the grading period is over since it means we’re getting closer to finishing the school year,” junior Grant Carlisle said. “The bad weather days have not put any stress on getting my grades in since most of my school work is done digitally and I was able to work on it at home.”