59% in Spanish Class

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Anonymous wrote:MY Daughter had a D for the 3rd quarter and 59 E for the 4th quarter. Since she is less than half point away from getting the credit for Spanish 2B for the course, should the teacher changed the grade to D?

I really don't know if I should say anything knowing she didn't do any extra credit or anything, but it likely for the teacher to fail a student by just one point?

Why do you want to save your daughter from her poor choices? Let her get the E. I think a D + E is still a D for the semester grade anyway.

But regardless, you should not be MORE concerned about your daughter "failing by 1 point" than by the fact that she is failing at all, and that you didn't catch this beforehand. Accountability matters.

What an ableist. Assuming it is poor choices when there could be a disability and the difference between a D and an F could mean the difference between a HS diploma and not. Which is the difference between a living wage and health insurance or not.

Are you kidding me? If the child has a disability, she needs an IEP and accommodation. That's not an excuse for her to fail her classes.

If your child gets a D in MP3, you need to stop and assess what the problem is. OP, admitted they didn't. THEN, after getting a D in MP3, OP is here with two days left in the school year asking if she can ask her to teacher to bump the failing grade to a D for her daughter just because.

This hasn't nothing to do with ableism and everything to do with accountability and being a responsible, engaged parent who monitors the academic progress of their child.

[Anonymous]

Hola, soy Dora!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade changed to D

Is that from OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade changed to D

Not at all surprised. Teachers are under pressure to not fail anyone especially in a required class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Grade changed to D

Not at all surprised. Teachers are under pressure to not fail anyone especially in a required class.

Please...she is receiving a D, which is basically an F. She should retake the class, period.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Grade changed to D

Not at all surprised. Teachers are under pressure to not fail anyone especially in a required class.

Please...she is receiving a D, which is basically an F. She should retake the class, period.

D means she gets credit for the class so it is very different. She never has to take Spanish again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She receives the grade she earned

+1

On a similar note, I promised my daughter an incentive for getting straight A’s but in her Spanish class she is an 89.4%. Does not look like show get an a. I could encourage her to appeal to her teacher to bump her up, but that wouldn’t be fair since she didn’t earn that grade. Sometimes life is not fair.

It never hurts to ask, as a teacher I will change the grade only IF they asked me.

That seems a little unfair.

Don't you think that teachers have already tried to cut your daughter slack and help her to pass? Teachers don't like to fail students who are trying. If she still ends up with a failing grade, she probably deserves it.

In our MCPS high school, there are 32 students in FL. The teacher is good, but has to spend a lot of time disciplining out of control adolescent young men. The FL language department is the least organized in the school, so it is hard for students to manage class trajectory. I am glad the OP's student is getting a D rather than E, but both the student in this case and the system have problems. Definitely retake Level 2, Level 3 only gets harder!

[Anonymous]

You really do not want your daughter moving on to Spanish 3 with any of those grades. Have her repeat 2B (and maybe 2A). She will be better positioned to succeed in 3.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She receives the grade she earned

+1

On a similar note, I promised my daughter an incentive for getting straight A’s but in her Spanish class she is an 89.4%. Does not look like show get an a. I could encourage her to appeal to her teacher to bump her up, but that wouldn’t be fair since she didn’t earn that grade. Sometimes life is not fair.

It never hurts to ask, as a teacher I will change the grade only IF they asked me.

That seems a little unfair.

Don't you think that teachers have already tried to cut your daughter slack and help her to pass? Teachers don't like to fail students who are trying. If she still ends up with a failing grade, she probably deserves it.

In our MCPS high school, there are 32 students in FL. The teacher is good, but has to spend a lot of time disciplining out of control adolescent young men. The FL language department is the least organized in the school, so it is hard for students to manage class trajectory. I am glad the OP's student is getting a D rather than E, but both the student in this case and the system have problems. Definitely retake Level 2, Level 3 only gets harder!

Only 32 kids in the whole high school are taking a language?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grade changed to D

Not at all surprised. Teachers are under pressure to not fail anyone especially in a required class.

Please...she is receiving a D, which is basically an F. She should retake the class, period.

Not in MCPS. D = passing so she's set.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if this kid is in my son’s class. The teacher is a really tough grader. He is mostly trying and is really smart but ended up with a C and did have a D for a while. The unit tests are worth a lot and are not retakable so if you bomb the unit quiz either because you didn’t study right or you weren’t feeling well that day, it’s hard to come back from. I talked to the teacher and she just has high expectations, which is fine. My kid has straight As otherwise. So people shouldn’t beat OP up so much — there are some isolated teachers in MCPS that are still grading like it’s 1985 and unfortunately these kids have never learned how to study.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She receives the grade she earned

+1

On a similar note, I promised my daughter an incentive for getting straight A’s but in her Spanish class she is an 89.4%. Does not look like show get an a. I could encourage her to appeal to her teacher to bump her up, but that wouldn’t be fair since she didn’t earn that grade. Sometimes life is not fair.

It never hurts to ask, as a teacher I will change the grade only IF they asked me.

That seems a little unfair.

Don't you think that teachers have already tried to cut your daughter slack and help her to pass? Teachers don't like to fail students who are trying. If she still ends up with a failing grade, she probably deserves it.

In our MCPS high school, there are 32 students in FL. The teacher is good, but has to spend a lot of time disciplining out of control adolescent young men. The FL language department is the least organized in the school, so it is hard for students to manage class trajectory. I am glad the OP's student is getting a D rather than E, but both the student in this case and the system have problems. Definitely retake Level 2, Level 3 only gets harder!

Only 32 kids in the whole high school are taking a language?

I think PP meant 32 kids per classroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grade changed to D

Not at all surprised. Teachers are under pressure to not fail anyone especially in a required class.

Please...she is receiving a D, which is basically an F. She should retake the class, period.

D means she gets credit for the class so it is very different. She never has to take Spanish again.[/quote)

Obviously, but it doesn’t look good on her transcript for colleges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grade changed to D

Not at all surprised. Teachers are under pressure to not fail anyone especially in a required class.

Please...she is receiving a D, which is basically an F. She should retake the class, period.

D means she gets credit for the class so it is very different. She never has to take Spanish again.[/quote)

Obviously, but it doesn’t look good on her transcript for colleges.

A parent, like OP, who's ok with their kid getting a D in two marking periods back-to-back might not have high aspirations for higher education for their child. Clearly, the bar is low.

[Anonymous]

OP is she going to retake this over summer or what?