Unfair Grade in Loudoun

[Anonymous]

DD is in 10th grade and was absent from school the day she was required to make a presentation. She asked the teacher multiple times about making it up, the teacher told her she would be exempt and the grade would not count against her.

DD has been looking at her gradebook in ParentVUE and can see that this missed assignment was counted against her. She’s been emailing the teacher and her counselor about this since the end of school, but not getting any response, and the grade has not changed.

Her grades were A-, B+, and B+ for the first 3 quarters. Looks like she has a D for the quarter and final grade has dropped to a C+.

Is there anything I can do in this situation?

[Anonymous]

Email the principal and CC the teacher and counselor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Email the principal and CC the teacher and counselor.

This.....

[Anonymous]

How much was the grade worth? 10% or she still went down a grade level? Could it be she stopped doing work because of “TikTok” trends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD is in 10th grade and was absent from school the day she was required to make a presentation. She asked the teacher multiple times about making it up, the teacher told her she would be exempt and the grade would not count against her.

DD has been looking at her gradebook in ParentVUE and can see that this missed assignment was counted against her. She’s been emailing the teacher and her counselor about this since the end of school, but not getting any response, and the grade has not changed.

Her grades were A-, B+, and B+ for the first 3 quarters. Looks like she has a D for the quarter and final grade has dropped to a C+.

Is there anything I can do in this situation?

Do you have the “receipt” of him saying that? Next time email him and if they say that then you have receipt now it’s going to be he said she said..

[Anonymous]

The teacher is on summer break and not your kid’s teacher anymore so they’re not going to respond. You can maybe get the counselor on board but one assignment can’t even count for more than 20% of the quarter grade in LCPS so it’s dubious this one thing dropped her that much.

[Anonymous]

I'd also caution against using "unfair" in your communications with the school, which sounds whiny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The teacher is on summer break and not your kid’s teacher anymore so they’re not going to respond. You can maybe get the counselor on board but one assignment can’t even count for more than 20% of the quarter grade in LCPS so it’s dubious this one thing dropped her that much.

Said D for the quarter. If it was 20%, then it might be 67/100 instead of 67/80 = 84% a B.

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking the kid is not being fully truthful with OP. Barring an extreme circumstance, a teacher is not going to just waive an assignment for a kid. Why didn't she just present when she got back? Teachers don't give less than a 50% as long as it was at least attempted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm thinking the kid is not being fully truthful with OP. Barring an extreme circumstance, a teacher is not going to just waive an assignment for a kid. Why didn't she just present when she got back? Teachers don't give less than a 50% as long as it was at least attempted.

95% of the time when the story is something like what OP posits, yes, the kid is fudging details. I’m a teacher; I’m not going to waive your kid’s major grade and then, even when they beg me to make it up multiple times, not let them but still end up putting in a Z (0%) when I had previously said I’d exempt it (X) with no penalty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm thinking the kid is not being fully truthful with OP. Barring an extreme circumstance, a teacher is not going to just waive an assignment for a kid. Why didn't she just present when she got back? Teachers don't give less than a 50% as long as it was at least attempted.

95% of the time when the story is something like what OP posits, yes, the kid is fudging details. I’m a teacher; I’m not going to waive your kid’s major grade and then, even when they beg me to make it up multiple times, not let them but still end up putting in a Z (0%) when I had previously said I’d exempt it (X) with no penalty.

It's good for TIKTOK tho. I had a student asking me if I change his to an F for a "minute" because\ he was doing a "Tiktok', I did and then changed it back to his real grade.

[Anonymous]

Why was she absent?