Best way to get grades changed?

[Anonymous]

Can you give an example of this teacher being a “witch” besides not fabricating an assignment to raise your daughter’s grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you give an example of this teacher being a “witch” besides not fabricating an assignment to raise your daughter’s grade?

+1000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you give an example of this teacher being a “witch” besides not fabricating an assignment to raise your daughter’s grade?

She didn’t teach. Her approach is to have the students watch videos for homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, we had to intervene last semester for our daughter with her AP Calc grade. She had a B+ for the semester and needed just 2/10 of a point to make it an A-. Daughter asked teacher who refused the option of doing some extra work for the bump. Daughter was deferred to her dream school and felt the B+ would hurt her chances. College counselor was unsuccessful at convincing teacher to help DD. Got the HOS involved, who was able to get the job done. Teacher is just an awful witch and we are glad to be done with her. Bottom line, have your kid try first and then if all fails, get involved.

Did she get in to the dream school after she was gifted the higher grade?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, we had to intervene last semester for our daughter with her AP Calc grade. She had a B+ for the semester and needed just 2/10 of a point to make it an A-. Daughter asked teacher who refused the option of doing some extra work for the bump. Daughter was deferred to her dream school and felt the B+ would hurt her chances. College counselor was unsuccessful at convincing teacher to help DD. Got the HOS involved, who was able to get the job done. Teacher is just an awful witch and we are glad to be done with her. Bottom line, have your kid try first and then if all fails, get involved.

So the grade was totally accurate but you wanted the teacher to make up some extra BS work after the semester is already over? I side with the teacher here.

Go ahead, but I stand by my opinion of the teacher being an awful witch. The administration agreed she is awful and if it weren't for the fact that math teachers at that level are hard to find, she would be fired. Lots and lots of complaints about this "teacher" who never once taught the class.

So your admin not only goes behind teacher’s backs to change grades, but also belittles those teachers to the parents? Name the school so we can avoid.

Not all teachers are angels. Bad teachers exist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, we had to intervene last semester for our daughter with her AP Calc grade. She had a B+ for the semester and needed just 2/10 of a point to make it an A-. Daughter asked teacher who refused the option of doing some extra work for the bump. Daughter was deferred to her dream school and felt the B+ would hurt her chances. College counselor was unsuccessful at convincing teacher to help DD. Got the HOS involved, who was able to get the job done. Teacher is just an awful witch and we are glad to be done with her. Bottom line, have your kid try first and then if all fails, get involved.

Did she get in to the dream school after she was gifted the higher grade?

Absolutely!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, we had to intervene last semester for our daughter with her AP Calc grade. She had a B+ for the semester and needed just 2/10 of a point to make it an A-. Daughter asked teacher who refused the option of doing some extra work for the bump. Daughter was deferred to her dream school and felt the B+ would hurt her chances. College counselor was unsuccessful at convincing teacher to help DD. Got the HOS involved, who was able to get the job done. Teacher is just an awful witch and we are glad to be done with her. Bottom line, have your kid try first and then if all fails, get involved.

So the grade was totally accurate but you wanted the teacher to make up some extra BS work after the semester is already over? I side with the teacher here.

Go ahead, but I stand by my opinion of the teacher being an awful witch. The administration agreed she is awful and if it weren't for the fact that math teachers at that level are hard to find, she would be fired. Lots and lots of complaints about this "teacher" who never once taught the class.

So your admin not only goes behind teacher’s backs to change grades, but also belittles those teachers to the parents? Name the school so we can avoid.

Not all teachers are angels. Bad teachers exist.

Exactly. The fact the entire admin went to bat for the student sounds like the teacher has a reputation.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, we had to intervene last semester for our daughter with her AP Calc grade. She had a B+ for the semester and needed just 2/10 of a point to make it an A-. Daughter asked teacher who refused the option of doing some extra work for the bump. Daughter was deferred to her dream school and felt the B+ would hurt her chances. College counselor was unsuccessful at convincing teacher to help DD. Got the HOS involved, who was able to get the job done. Teacher is just an awful witch and we are glad to be done with her. Bottom line, have your kid try first and then if all fails, get involved.

So the grade was totally accurate but you wanted the teacher to make up some extra BS work after the semester is already over? I side with the teacher here.

Go ahead, but I stand by my opinion of the teacher being an awful witch. The administration agreed she is awful and if it weren't for the fact that math teachers at that level are hard to find, she would be fired. Lots and lots of complaints about this "teacher" who never once taught the class.

So your admin not only goes behind teacher’s backs to change grades, but also belittles those teachers to the parents? Name the school so we can avoid.

Not all teachers are angels. Bad teachers exist.

Admin should never badmouth teachers to students or parents. No matter how bad the teacher is - especially if they are retaining the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really think a few of my son’s B+ should be A-. Should I go directly to teacher or admin? Best ways to phrase the email or wordings to avoid? Should I ask for in person meeting?

Only respond if you actually have had success with this approach- no trolls.

You can try to talk to the teacher, but I think the more effective path is to have a conversation on how to improve in the future. Inquiring about ways to grow would be more useful for your son for future report cards and moving forward in his academic career.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, we had to intervene last semester for our daughter with her AP Calc grade. She had a B+ for the semester and needed just 2/10 of a point to make it an A-. Daughter asked teacher who refused the option of doing some extra work for the bump. Daughter was deferred to her dream school and felt the B+ would hurt her chances. College counselor was unsuccessful at convincing teacher to help DD. Got the HOS involved, who was able to get the job done. Teacher is just an awful witch and we are glad to be done with her. Bottom line, have your kid try first and then if all fails, get involved.

So the grade was totally accurate but you wanted the teacher to make up some extra BS work after the semester is already over? I side with the teacher here.

Go ahead, but I stand by my opinion of the teacher being an awful witch. The administration agreed she is awful and if it weren't for the fact that math teachers at that level are hard to find, she would be fired. Lots and lots of complaints about this "teacher" who never once taught the class.

So your admin not only goes behind teacher’s backs to change grades, but also belittles those teachers to the parents? Name the school so we can avoid.

Not all teachers are angels. Bad teachers exist.

Exactly. The fact the entire admin went to bat for the student sounds like the teacher has a reputation.

BS. If that’s your take, why didn’t admin get grades raised for every kid in the class? Why just OP’s poor, poor child? Admin sounds terrible as does OP.

[Anonymous]

It's easier for admin to bully teacher than to get into a back and forth with litigious parents who want to sue about everything. Fact is the kids are nuts these days and their hyped up on gas station drugs and Red Bull.

[Anonymous]

The kids get enough bumps when they show up to clas with blue adderall powder on their noses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, we had to intervene last semester for our daughter with her AP Calc grade. She had a B+ for the semester and needed just 2/10 of a point to make it an A-. Daughter asked teacher who refused the option of doing some extra work for the bump. Daughter was deferred to her dream school and felt the B+ would hurt her chances. College counselor was unsuccessful at convincing teacher to help DD. Got the HOS involved, who was able to get the job done. Teacher is just an awful witch and we are glad to be done with her. Bottom line, have your kid try first and then if all fails, get involved.

what a terrible life lesson

[Anonymous]

And we wonder how grade inflation happens, why kids are ill-equipped to learn that they're actually not geniuses and why parents are depressed when their darlings leave the nest and they have absolute no reason to get up in the morning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, we had to intervene last semester for our daughter with her AP Calc grade. She had a B+ for the semester and needed just 2/10 of a point to make it an A-. Daughter asked teacher who refused the option of doing some extra work for the bump. Daughter was deferred to her dream school and felt the B+ would hurt her chances. College counselor was unsuccessful at convincing teacher to help DD. Got the HOS involved, who was able to get the job done. Teacher is just an awful witch and we are glad to be done with her. Bottom line, have your kid try first and then if all fails, get involved.

what a terrible life lesson

Not at all when you have a witch as a teacher.