Mr. Father,Thank you for sending SON’s report to me so that I can finish up 1st nine weeks grades.  I will get it graded tonight along with the others that presented today.  I can tell that SON worked very hard on it and I appreciate all the effort that he put into it.  He did talk to me about doing the video game early on after the project was introduced and I told him that would be great, but make sure he would be able to present by the deadline.  Unfortunately, SON will still lose 10 points for not having his assignment here today to present as this was part of the assignment.  I appreciate you taking the blame for this, but it is truly SON’s responsibility to make sure he has what he needs.  He could have turned in a hand written copy of his essay and received the same amount of credit for the typed one or just as he emailed you, he could have sent it to me via email. I do wish we would have been informed of SON’s absences before he left town.  He has quite a bit of make up work that he needs to complete before Thursday so that he can receive a 1st quarter grade for Social Studies.  Again, SON needs to take the responsibility of coming to us when he knows he will be absent or if ever sick, coming to us as soon as he returns to receive the work that he has or will miss.  Next year in middle school, teachers will not track him down, but just put in a zero for missing assignments. Thank you for all the work you do with SON at home.  He is a good kid and his hard work shows in this essay.