DD got her teacher to ground up her grade

[Anonymous]

I am surprised DD had 82.28 in Biology, emailed Biology teacher if she can give her B and not B-
teacher responded with
DONE!!!!!!!!
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER


I didn't even say a word to her, but I am proud that she asked. The worse she could've of said was Nope

[Anonymous]

Grade grubbing is not something to be proud of.

[Anonymous]

Only a B? What happened?

[Anonymous]

And you’re proud of this why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised DD had 82.28 in Biology, emailed Biology teacher if she can give her B and not B-
teacher responded with
DONE!!!!!!!!
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER


I didn't even say a word to her, but I am proud that she asked. The worse she could've of said was Nope

On what grounds? Did she redo something, retake a test or quiz, submit missing work...what? Otherwise strange.

I'd ask for an A.

[Anonymous]

This is so strange. Your daughter asked for a grade based on no work and you’re proud? My son was .1 away from the next grade a couple of years ago and didn’t even think to ask for free points.

Also provides more evidence that GPAs should not be valued as much as they are in admissions. Standardized tests are much more fair than this sort of teacher and student dependent grading.

[Anonymous]

Good for her. She’s got to learn to advocate for herself. This is how the world works.

[Anonymous]

Lol why is everyone so mad

[Anonymous]

She can just grind up her test papers along with it into a sausage that is the grading system at FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for her. She’s got to learn to advocate for herself. This is how the world works.

This is why I am proud of her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so strange. Your daughter asked for a grade based on no work and you’re proud? My son was .1 away from the next grade a couple of years ago and didn’t even think to ask for free points.

Also provides more evidence that GPAs should not be valued as much as they are in admissions. Standardized tests are much more fair than this sort of teacher and student dependent grading.

Why not? "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" One of her teacher's taught her to asked it doesn't hurt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her. She’s got to learn to advocate for herself. This is how the world works.

This is why I am proud of her.

I’m a STEM professor and I tell my students to not even ask me about rounding up. I don’t do it and it’s annoying when students ask. I give them several types of assessments to demonstrate their learning along with makeup opportunities and even a little extra credit at the end. I’m not one of those professor who purposely makes things hard to prove a point. Students who work hard can usually do well in the class. Those couple of tenths on the final grade are a few points on a test or assignment and can usually be tied back to something they didn’t turn in. A line must be drawn somewhere for rounding and it’s the .5 mark in my book.

Now I know why some of them still ask even when I say that I don’t round up when it’s not warranted. They have parents who encourage this behavior.

[Anonymous]

She is welcome to ask. Lord knows I got 73857353 emails in the last 48 hours begging me to do the same.

Unlike that teacher though, I said no. There were plenty of opportunities all year to earn points, and a final exam to show trend/mastery learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is welcome to ask. Lord knows I got 73857353 emails in the last 48 hours begging me to do the same.

Unlike that teacher though, I said no. There were plenty of opportunities all year to earn points, and a final exam to show trend/mastery learning.

Thank you for enforcing standards. It’s too bad other teachers give in to this type of cheating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is welcome to ask. Lord knows I got 73857353 emails in the last 48 hours begging me to do the same.

Unlike that teacher though, I said no. There were plenty of opportunities all year to earn points, and a final exam to show trend/mastery learning.

I will say that I refuse to write college recs for kids who do this. Own the grade you get. Begging me to raise it doesn’t reflect well on yourself.