Do I ask teacher to bump up math grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh OP you are exactly what is wrong with this area. NO you do not do this.
Your kid was right to ask if there is anything HE could DO to bump it up. But the answer is no. Period.

This!!

[Anonymous]

No way, OP! A few years ago, my kid was .1 away from the next grade up and the idea of asking never crossed our minds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

BS. Who bends over backwards to get somebody just below a threshold? That doesn’t make sense. If I was a teacher, <1 point gets rounded up. Especially if the kid is asking to do extra work. I’d complain like hel. Is there a reason your child may be discriminated against or the teacher wouldn’t like him. Does the teacher have a history of this behavior? Maybe she feels she can screw certain kids over and get away with it. Use any outlet to complain and expose the situation if you feel your son is being done wrong.

The bending over backwards could have been allowing extensions on assignments without late penalties and being more generous in the grading of individual test questions. It does not mean the teacher randomly assigning a 79.2 just for the lulz.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

BS. Who bends over backwards to get somebody just below a threshold? That doesn’t make sense. If I was a teacher, <1 point gets rounded up. Especially if the kid is asking to do extra work. I’d complain like hel. Is there a reason your child may be discriminated against or the teacher wouldn’t like him. Does the teacher have a history of this behavior? Maybe she feels she can screw certain kids over and get away with it. Use any outlet to complain and expose the situation if you feel your son is being done wrong.

You can’t just “round up” the grade. It is calculated from every grade of every assignment entered. I cannot manually override that number; the only way to change it is to change assignment grades. If the teacher already bumped every single assignment submitted, he can’t really do anything else other than then go lie and add extra points to missing assignments to further bump it. I’m telling you, we have done everything we could for these kids. Their grades are inflated. I’ve even exempted all from one missing assignment as a gimme. But I am not lying and saying they did work they didn’t to further bump them to a B. The 79 was probably the furthest he could get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

Exactly! Yet, insanity here never ends!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

BS. Who bends over backwards to get somebody just below a threshold? That doesn’t make sense. If I was a teacher, <1 point gets rounded up. Especially if the kid is asking to do extra work. I’d complain like hel. Is there a reason your child may be discriminated against or the teacher wouldn’t like him. Does the teacher have a history of this behavior? Maybe she feels she can screw certain kids over and get away with it. Use any outlet to complain and expose the situation if you feel your son is being done wrong.

You are crazy. As a teacher, I am shocked that so many parents actually seem to believe I punish or "screw over" students simply because I don't like them. I don't know any teachers who think this way about their students.

[Anonymous]

Oh, and to add, this is a cumulative grade. The kid might have done everything he could for Q4 but the teacher can’t change it beyond that without going back and changing earlier quarters. Admin knows we have inflated grades for kids. But If OP did this to me, I would tell my admin I’m going back and giving that kid the legitimate grade he earned in Q4 which is with absolute certainty much lower than the 79. Your kid asked, it’s a no, you need to drop it. You’re not entitled to creating more work for this teacher for extra rounding your kid already benefitted from.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

Exactly! Yet, insanity here never ends!

This is why we need to do away with grades and focus on growth based portfolios with senior capstones like a thesis. Grades are arbitrary and have no real value but parents like OP make it even worse. Every kid doesn’t deserve a free A. All of this is meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

Same. And my junior is getting a 79.8 in one class, which will completely change the list of colleges. It's been a crap year. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

BS. Who bends over backwards to get somebody just below a threshold? That doesn’t make sense. If I was a teacher, <1 point gets rounded up. Especially if the kid is asking to do extra work. I’d complain like hel. Is there a reason your child may be discriminated against or the teacher wouldn’t like him. Does the teacher have a history of this behavior? Maybe she feels she can screw certain kids over and get away with it. Use any outlet to complain and expose the situation if you feel your son is being done wrong.

You are crazy. As a teacher, I am shocked that so many parents actually seem to believe I punish or "screw over" students simply because I don't like them. I don't know any teachers who think this way about their students.

I used to think the same, then DD had me listen in on a few recording this fall. Teachers can be petty mean and absolutely show favoritism

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

Exactly! Yet, insanity here never ends!

This is why we need to do away with grades and focus on growth based portfolios with senior capstones like a thesis. Grades are arbitrary and have no real value but parents like OP make it even worse. Every kid doesn’t deserve a free A. All of this is meaningless.

Oh but you should see how people freak out when districts move to standards-based grading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

Same. And my junior is getting a 79.8 in one class, which will completely change the list of colleges. It's been a crap year. Sigh.

If one class tips the balance weren’t they reaches anyway?

[Anonymous]

Screw these nay sayers, this is your kid and their future! Yes, reach out to the teacher and copy the appropriate admin.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and when applying tocolleges, the colleges don't know that you were the squeaker when they make that first cut because of gpa!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This year, I'd probably assume that the 79.2 was already bending over backwards to help my kid and that he actually deserved a 60.

As a teacher that is 100% correct. Whatever your kid’s grade is right now, assume it would be at least a full letter grade lower in normal school. The teacher probably already bumped everything he could and can’t bump more without going in and literally saying the kid did missing assignments he didn’t do. We have helped your kids a ton. The 79 is already the gift.

the kids who normally do well getting Cs and Ds in math are doing poorly because teachers did an absolutely terrible job imparting knowledge this year. A gift would have been them doing their jobs effectively

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Screw these nay sayers, this is your kid and their future! Yes, reach out to the teacher and copy the appropriate admin.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and when applying tocolleges, the colleges don't know that you were the squeaker when they make that first cut because of gpa!

This, look over everything and try to find any error in any graded assignment. We had a teacher who took forever to fix grades after realizing that the name field was being marked as an incorrect answer. If you can find one error, you can go to her and the administration complaining about her sloppy grading - where there is one, there are surely more- hurting your child