I did email to confirm that was the reason for the deduction. It is an art class and the teacher's response was he can't give studio points when the student isn't there. He said he gives opportunities to make up points that he announces to the class.
This is nonsense. Our DS has missed several days of art. The art teacher seems rigid minded (which in my view disqualifies you from teaching art but hey...), but I had a lengthy phone conversation with her in which I explained DS's diagnoses, medications, struggles, and so on until she started to see the forest for the trees.
Now she has agreed that DS will not be penalized for late assignments as long as everything is in by the end of the marking period.
So there is no need for your art teacher to be so uptight. Hopefully he can be talked out of his mindset.
Fingers crossed.
