Teacher claiming assignment not turned in when it was

[Anonymous]

Grad course in (I think) numerical analysis. Final was a four part take home--one part each week for 4 weeks. Professor had an office in paper chaos plus was hosting a visiting colleague (guy who had the job prof said was his dream job, paid big bucks by IBM to work on whatever took his fancy wherever in the world he was inclined to do so). I think there was a roof leak around that time (dept was top floor under the attic). Visiting prof decided to clean up my prof's office.

Yeah, my whole final disappeared. Probably about 50 pages of handwritten computations/proofs. No, I had not made copies. Prof said "well, if you did it once, you can do it again." I just couldn't make myself do it. Ended up taking the same class again (but different texts and different content because the visitor had gotten my prof excited about wavelets). From there on I made copies of take home exam completions.

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Anonymous wrote:Deep breath Op, this is not high school with grades needed to get into college, thank goodness. Assume something like this will happen again when the stakes are MUCH higher. Great he had some way to prove it (need I say it was a oddly convenient that he had proof at-the-ready ... are you sure there's not more story you're not telling us ... or he's not telling you ...)

Yeah. Taking a photo of an A assignment the teacher posted on the wall is a clear indication of some sort of addiction. Is it opiates? No, I think that’s when they join the math club. He’s probably addicted to the vaping.

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Anonymous wrote:Deep breath Op, this is not high school with grades needed to get into college, thank goodness. Assume something like this will happen again when the stakes are MUCH higher. Great he had some way to prove it (need I say it was a oddly convenient that he had proof at-the-ready ... are you sure there's not more story you're not telling us ... or he's not telling you ...)

Yeah. Taking a photo of an A assignment the teacher posted on the wall is a clear indication of some sort of addiction. Is it opiates? No, I think that’s when they join the math club. He’s probably addicted to the vaping.

DP. A few years back, a student sent me a photo of his work on our display wall. I sent back a photo of the wall that I took for our teacher evaluation portfolio the day after the work was due. His work was nowhere on the wall. He added it later after the Z caught his mom’s attention. The best part was that his photo showed that his work was taped with scotch tape from the front at the end of Pd 7 although he was in Pd 3 and I used blue painter’s tape for all the other work. Even the AP laughed at that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deep breath Op, this is not high school with grades needed to get into college, thank goodness. Assume something like this will happen again when the stakes are MUCH higher. Great he had some way to prove it (need I say it was a oddly convenient that he had proof at-the-ready ... are you sure there's not more story you're not telling us ... or he's not telling you ...)

Yeah. Taking a photo of an A assignment the teacher posted on the wall is a clear indication of some sort of addiction. Is it opiates? No, I think that’s when they join the math club. He’s probably addicted to the vaping.

DP. A few years back, a student sent me a photo of his work on our display wall. I sent back a photo of the wall that I took for our teacher evaluation portfolio the day after the work was due. His work was nowhere on the wall. He added it later after the Z caught his mom’s attention. The best part was that his photo showed that his work was taped with scotch tape from the front at the end of Pd 7 although he was in Pd 3 and I used blue painter’s tape for all the other work. Even the AP laughed at that.

Ok. You win. OP’s kid is probably faking. He’s never missed turning in an assignment, he has photographic evidence he *claims* the teacher didn’t dispute, but a random unassociated kid faked something poorly once so this kid is probably faking too. Sorry OP. Hope you had another kid because this one’s a lost cause.

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NP - a middle school teacher. It does seem weird to me that a kid took a picture of the work wall. I post work all the time and I've never seen or heard of a kid taking a picture of the work wall.

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Taking pic sounds oddly convenient

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I will say this is why I’m glad my kids are issued Chromebooks and all homework is turned in electronically. It’s timestamped, and backed up. Also just less paper moving in and out of my house.
PP teacher: the story about the kid putting up the assignment later was hilarious. Not sure that’s what happened in this particular instance or not, but it was great story!

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Anonymous wrote:NP - a middle school teacher. It does seem weird to me that a kid took a picture of the work wall. I post work all the time and I've never seen or heard of a kid taking a picture of the work wall.

Yeah, why not call the teacher over if he was afraid to remove it to bring to her? Plus, who hangs up work before grading it? That would be very odd. I may have none that once for a gallery walk assignment, but I at least recorded who turned the work in before hanging.

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Anonymous wrote:
The teacher has obviously forgotten.
Your son must write an email to remind him or her. Even better if he includes the photo.

My middle schooler has had to remind certain distracted teachers multiple times to correct grades, etc. Teachers have too many students and too much to do.

This. It's a good lesson in how to write an email to follow up from a verbal discussion. I do it all of the time. If it doesn't exist in writing, did it ever exist?

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I don't think it's weird that he took a picture. He was proud of his grade. Also, how is he faking his assignment with HER handwriting on it? Plus, a picture has date and time info embedded so there is proof of that if you doubt (I don't). Teacher most likely forgot about updating.

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Remind teacher, if it doesn’t change within 2 days DS should send email to VP and/or guidance counselor.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's weird that he took a picture. He was proud of his grade. Also, how is he faking his assignment with HER handwriting on it? Plus, a picture has date and time info embedded so there is proof of that if you doubt (I don't). Teacher most likely forgot about updating.

When did OP say the work had a grade and teacher comments on it already?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's weird that he took a picture. He was proud of his grade. Also, how is he faking his assignment with HER handwriting on it? Plus, a picture has date and time info embedded so there is proof of that if you doubt (I don't). Teacher most likely forgot about updating.

When did OP say the work had a grade and teacher comments on it already?

In the OP!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's weird that he took a picture. He was proud of his grade. Also, how is he faking his assignment with HER handwriting on it? Plus, a picture has date and time info embedded so there is proof of that if you doubt (I don't). Teacher most likely forgot about updating.

When did OP say the work had a grade and teacher comments on it already?

In the OP!!

Reading comprehension fail for you. No retakes. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:NP - a middle school teacher. It does seem weird to me that a kid took a picture of the work wall. I post work all the time and I've never seen or heard of a kid taking a picture of the work wall.

I'm the OP. Kid took the picture to show ME his assignment was graded and hanging in the classroom. He pointed it out to the teacher when he spoke to her, so she could see for herself that he had turned in the assignment and she had graded it.