Dmitry isn't the problem
Boo, boo, Rasputin. I knew that sooner or later we’d get the usual dressing down about the state of marks (or lack of them) in the on-line mark book. I came down with a migraine on the day of that meeting, which was almost certainly triggered by the prospect of some annoying rant and the resulting pressure from it. Vlad used the same excuse as last year, viz. he’d had complaints from “parents”. In fact, it was Rasputin sticking his nose in where no one asked him to stick it. As a result we scrambled to add some entries, although as I’d already started the process in anticipation of this, and I’m still slowly working on it. I’m fairly certain that almost none of the parents even bother looking at the mark book. I’m fairly certain that it has no effect on the chances of any child. It’s a pointless exercise if we’re simply dishing out marks for the sake of making it appear active (e.g. everyone gets the same for classwork regardless of how indolent they might have been) to keep