July 11, 2009
Dear students and parents:
In this letter, and in the two attachments, you will find information regarding Asheville Latin seminars, schedules, and policies. Please read the enclosed documents carefully. If you are unable to open the attachments, please go to ashevillelatinseminars.blogspot.com. Posted under July 11 you will find the same information.
Fees: circumstances--that is, income taxes--dictate charging by the semester rather than by the year. The first semester fees are due by August 3. If you wish to pay by the year, please feel free to do so. Please pay all fees promptly.
The fees run as follows. In the first semester, there are sixteen sessions per seminar. In the second semester, there are seventeen sessions. Each individual session is $12. If your student is taking one class this fall, your fee is 16 classes x $12=$192. From this amount, you need to deduct the deposit you paid last spring. Most of you paid a two-session deposit of $24. If that figure was your deposit, then you owe $168.
Payment: You may pay in one of two ways. On Monday, August 3, I will be at Trinity Presbyterian Church in the upstairs classrooms from 4:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. to collect fees and to meet with any parents who have questions. I will have some help collecting fees, so you shouldn’t have a long wait.
If you are unable to make that meeting, please send a check for the amount owed by August 3. Make the check to Jeff Minick and send it to Jeff Minick/114 Montford Ave. #3/Asheville NC 28801. With the check please put the subject, day, and time for which your student is registered. If there is a discrepancy, I will contact you.
There is a good chance that I will be moving by August 1 to a new location in Montford. If you send your fees by mail, please ensure that the letter will arrive at the above address no later than August 3.
Homework and tests: Students, I encourage you to determine to do well in my classes and in all your endeavors this year. Determination and the will to see a duty performed are keys to success in life (I recommend you go to www.incharacter.org and read Angela Duckworth’s article on Grit).
One part of your duty involves doing your own work. Cheating and plagiarism are wrong. They are sins (“Thou shalt not steal”). In my classes, they are particularly silly sins, because you gain so little by them. You are not competing against your classmates. There is no class rank, no honor roll, no comparison of grades. You are competing against a standard and in many ways, against yourself. Do not demean or diminish your honor by looking at a classmate’s test or by using someone else’s work.
Be sure to have your summer assignments completed on time for the first class.
Thank you. May you all have a wonderful summer!
Jeff Minck
Dear students and parents:
In this letter, and in the two attachments, you will find information regarding Asheville Latin seminars, schedules, and policies. Please read the enclosed documents carefully. If you are unable to open the attachments, please go to ashevillelatinseminars.blogspot.com. Posted under July 11 you will find the same information.
Fees: circumstances--that is, income taxes--dictate charging by the semester rather than by the year. The first semester fees are due by August 3. If you wish to pay by the year, please feel free to do so. Please pay all fees promptly.
The fees run as follows. In the first semester, there are sixteen sessions per seminar. In the second semester, there are seventeen sessions. Each individual session is $12. If your student is taking one class this fall, your fee is 16 classes x $12=$192. From this amount, you need to deduct the deposit you paid last spring. Most of you paid a two-session deposit of $24. If that figure was your deposit, then you owe $168.
Payment: You may pay in one of two ways. On Monday, August 3, I will be at Trinity Presbyterian Church in the upstairs classrooms from 4:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. to collect fees and to meet with any parents who have questions. I will have some help collecting fees, so you shouldn’t have a long wait.
If you are unable to make that meeting, please send a check for the amount owed by August 3. Make the check to Jeff Minick and send it to Jeff Minick/114 Montford Ave. #3/Asheville NC 28801. With the check please put the subject, day, and time for which your student is registered. If there is a discrepancy, I will contact you.
There is a good chance that I will be moving by August 1 to a new location in Montford. If you send your fees by mail, please ensure that the letter will arrive at the above address no later than August 3.
Homework and tests: Students, I encourage you to determine to do well in my classes and in all your endeavors this year. Determination and the will to see a duty performed are keys to success in life (I recommend you go to www.incharacter.org and read Angela Duckworth’s article on Grit).
One part of your duty involves doing your own work. Cheating and plagiarism are wrong. They are sins (“Thou shalt not steal”). In my classes, they are particularly silly sins, because you gain so little by them. You are not competing against your classmates. There is no class rank, no honor roll, no comparison of grades. You are competing against a standard and in many ways, against yourself. Do not demean or diminish your honor by looking at a classmate’s test or by using someone else’s work.
Be sure to have your summer assignments completed on time for the first class.
Thank you. May you all have a wonderful summer!
Jeff Minck
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