What do you do?

[Anonymous]

About a teacher who routinely makes grading mistakes on quizzes and tests, and then hands them back out so late that it's a totally different quarter, and says the grade cannot be changed? Sometimes the grading errors are small and won't have an overall impact, but this last one was a nearly 10 point shift. There have been several that are in the 5 point range. It's either her marking things wrong that are not, or making math errors when adding up the totals.

[Anonymous]

First, talk to them nicely.

If you've done that and you aren't getting a particularly useful response, bubble it up to the principal. The things you describe probably aren't just impacting your kid, and if it is just your kid, you'd want to know why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About a teacher who routinely makes grading mistakes on quizzes and tests, and then hands them back out so late that it's a totally different quarter, and says the grade cannot be changed? Sometimes the grading errors are small and won't have an overall impact, but this last one was a nearly 10 point shift. There have been several that are in the 5 point range. It's either her marking things wrong that are not, or making math errors when adding up the totals.

It would depend. Is it a HS class? Is your kid trying to go to TJ? If the answer to both of those questions is no, I'd ignore it.

If this is a HS class, I'd have my kid self-advocate. If my kid is ignored I'd step in by talking to the teacher first and then escalating it. I'd also do this if this is a non-HS class and my kid is trying to go to TJ. Absent those scenarios, the grades don't matter.

[Anonymous]

If it's a class that will be on a high school transcript, I would have my kid self advocate in writing. If the teacher refuses to fix their mistake, I'd go to the principal. I would work with my kid to build a paper record because the principal is not going to want to side with the kid if it comes to that

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/procedures%20-for-complaints-and-appeals

[Anonymous]

Thank you all. I will talk to her.

Kid and the teacher have a good rapport, so I don't think she is targeted. Even with all the mistakes, kid has good grades in her (HS) class, so she's reluctant to get in her teacher's bad graces.