<p>Hops_scout, I have a choir kid. Performances and contests which are off campus are par for the course and are important enough to have points taken off for tardiness. What really ticked me off this spring was that my son was 11 minutes late for a Sunday rehearsal and got a boat load of points taken off. I had no idea that this would happen. I thought it was just a casual extra thing and we asked him to drop his sister off somewhere before the rehearsal, making him 11 minutes late. The lady took so few grades that that little 11 minutes cost him 3 points on his final grade.</p>
<p>Our highest level choir sings at graduation but I imagine that the senior’s final grades are turned in before then. </p>
<p>OP, you might want to pay it forward and tell the parents of next year’s senior choir kids early on…that way, they might be able to persuade the teacher to back off her grading for graduation policy.</p>