Letter of recommendation criteria
Mr. Webber is always willing to write deserving students a letter of recommendation. However, if he declines to write you one, please see the list below. If you see yourself in any of the items below, then you know what you have to work on in order to receive a letter of recommendation.
Updated August 10
How NOT to receive a letter of recommendation:
Note: The clock on items 2-11 starts at the beginning of each semester in August and January. Item number 1 results in a permanent no.
Note: The clock on items 2-11 starts at the beginning of each semester in August and January. Item number 1 results in a permanent no.
- Student turns in a completed written work, photograph, graphic element, or graphic design offered for publication (but not a rough draft) that shows provable evidence of plagiarism, uses false information, or is lacking in more or more areas of ethics.
- Student has to be reminded to work on current assignment at least once a day, two or more times a week for 2 or more weeks.
- Student has to be reminded to put his/her phone away at the beginning of class, two or more times a week for 2 or more weeks.
- Excessive absences, to mean he/she is in violation of the state's 90 percent attendance rule.
- Excessive tardies, to mean 3 or more minutes late to class two or more times a week for two or more weeks.
- Student displays a negative attitude towards class. This can include one or more of the following: doing the bare minimum to get by (meaning he/she receives a 9-weeks grade from 70 to 0), behaves rudely towards instructor, seems uninterested or lacks enthusiasm for class or for the creative writing program, gets behind on assignments and is slow to catch up, does not complete all parts of a semester's final exam, or fails to follow through with an outside-of-school-day assignment or other commitment.
- Student whose behavior, attendance, grades, or attitude does not improve after in-class conference with instructor.
- Student whose behavior, attendance, grades, or attitude does not improve after phone or in-person parent conference.
- Student whose behavior or attitude outside of class reflects poorly on the creative writing program or the school itself.
- Student who exhibits one or more of the behaviors listed above in his/her VMT academic class, or if taking a second fine arts area, then is failing or fails that class.
- Student who is failing or fails his/her VMT academic class, or if taking a second fine arts area, then is failing or fails that class.