Under a new school policy, homework cannot be valued more than 10 percent of a student’s overall quarter grade. Greater emphasis is being placed on quizzes, tests and projects.

This new scale is showing students that missing a major test or project will cost them big time.

Additionally, all parents or guardians of students will receive a progress report from all of their teachers every other Friday.

Teachers are excited with the new progress reports policy mostly because they think it will impact their students tremendously.

“Parents have the right to know how their students are doing,” AHS counselor Llana Reyes said. “It holds the students more accountable when they know that their parents are going to see their grades.”

In addition, students will have frequent access of their grades through their parents. No longer will students have to contstantly ask their teachers to print out or email grade reports.

Even though they have just enforced this new rule, English teacher Melissa Phillips has been sending  progress reports to students parents for seven years.

“It only takes a couple minutes and it makes a world of a difference,” Phillips said. “Because if a student is missing an assignment their parent or guardian sees it and then they talk to them and before you know it I get the missing work and the students grade improves.”

Other AHS teachers have done this before and are ok with it because they have done it in the past. “I’m fine with it,” English teacher Timothy Hardy said. “Technology makes it really easy for me.”

Although teachers find this very useful to the students, the students may think differently.

“It’s kind of scary because I don’t want my parents to see if i have a bad grade,” sophomore Madison Walsh said.

Other teachers and administrators say this new addition to the grading system is useful to the students, parents  and teachers of AHS.