Benjamin Banneker

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Extended Day Program

All Banneker Students, Parents, and Stakeholders:

The Tuesday and Wednesday All School Extended Day Program came to a successful conclusion March 9th. Beginning, today, March 10th, students will depart from school at 3:40 p.m. for the remainder of the year. We concluded the program earlier than anticipated to accommodate our need to narrow our focus to targeted students. We are also required to give The Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT) next week. Passing the GHSGT is a graduation requirement.

After the Graduation Test, our extra-help focus will return but will change to the End of Course Tests (EOCTs). Targeted students will be asked by teachers to remain after school for additional help. These Extended Day Tutorials will take place from 4:05-5:05 p.m. or to 6:05 p.m. Teachers will schedule their own tutorials with the students; and at the conclusion of the sessions each day, the students may ride home on sweep buses. This extra help is being provided to students only through the teachers who teach courses that require an EOCT. End of Course Tests are required in some classes by the Georgia Department of Education and are weighted as 15% of a student’s final grade.

Thank you for your support of these major initiatives and interventions to improve student achievement at Banneker High School.

Sincerely,

Will Bradley, Principal

PTSA
All meetings will be held in the auditorium.

Dates

January 25

March 15

May 10

If any question or concerns or to volunteer you may contact Ms. Glenda Shivers via email at gshivers@atlantabsa.org. Also there’s a PTSA mailbox located in Banneker’s main office.

Georgia High School Graduation Test Tutorials will be conducted in each Core Subject—

Math, Language Arts/Reading, Science and Social Studies--from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 the following Saturdays: February 20th & 27th and March 6th and 13th.

The GHSGTs will be administered the week of March 15th-19th.

All 11th graders who are taking the test for the first time and all 12th graders who need to pass the entire test or a portion of the test should attend to get this last minute help! YOU CANNOT GRADUATE WITHOUT PASSING THIS STATE REQUIRED ASSESSMENT! COME GET THE FREE HELP YOU WILL NEED!