Do I ask teacher to bump up math grade?

[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.

What??? This is why there needs to be strict rules so teachers aren't accused of discrimination if they bend the rules for one but not another student. There is a round up at .5 rule. If it's .4, .3, .2...., NO.

This isn’t true at all FCPS HSs - we were told that even rounds up and odd rounds down - IOW, a 92.5 rounds down to a 92/A- and an 89.5 rounds up to a 90/A-. That was a hard one for my kid to swallow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I also have a junior, and I haven't written her teachers about anything since she started high school (in fact, I don't think I contacted her teachers in middle school about her grades, either).

My DD contacts her teachers on her own behalf, and asks them herself. As it should be, since she's almost a legal adult. Mom, it's time to cut the cord. You should not be contacting his teachers anymore. He's 17, not 7.

I agree. I’d led the kid talk to the teacher and when I got involved I’d be talking to school board members, principals, assistant superintendent’s, superintendent’s, state and congressional representatives, state department of education, federal department of education, social media review sites, etc.

I hope this is a joke. If not, your crazy is showing.

This was posted by a women. They are all half crazy. And when they become a NOVA mom look out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What??? This is why there needs to be strict rules so teachers aren't accused of discrimination if they bend the rules for one but not another student. There is a round up at .5 rule. If it's .4, .3, .2...., NO.

This isn’t true at all FCPS HSs - we were told that even rounds up and odd rounds down - IOW, a 92.5 rounds down to a 92/A- and an 89.5 rounds up to a 90/A-. That was a hard one for my kid to swallow.

That is not FCPS policy. I'd ask why the school isn't following FCPS policy. Also, why would some .5 round up and some down? That's ridiculous. Did your kid tell you this?

[Anonymous]

Teacher here. SIS does the rounding for you. The teacher does not need to decide how to round anything. .5 gets rounded up by the program.

Also, SIS allows you to alter the letter grade for the report card without changing the numeric grade in the gradebook. Many times I've been told by a principal to grade on trends and mastery, even if the numeric grade is 92.3, I can make the letter grade an A if I deem it appropriate.

That said, the entire system this year has been rigged to make it as easy and forgiving as possible already. The 79.2 or whatever it is was achieved with a million things already in place to make things super forgiving and fail-proof. Everything has already been put through the 'it's such a hard year' lens. Would I still bump them? Probably. But I dont blame another teacher for not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. SIS does the rounding for you. The teacher does not need to decide how to round anything. .5 gets rounded up by the program.

Also, SIS allows you to alter the letter grade for the report card without changing the numeric grade in the gradebook. Many times I've been told by a principal to grade on trends and mastery, even if the numeric grade is 92.3, I can make the letter grade an A if I deem it appropriate.

That said, the entire system this year has been rigged to make it as easy and forgiving as possible already. The 79.2 or whatever it is was achieved with a million things already in place to make things super forgiving and fail-proof. Everything has already been put through the 'it's such a hard year' lens. Would I still bump them? Probably. But I dont blame another teacher for not

I am soft, if someone has a 63.00% I will pass them, but if someone has 79.20 if will be case by case scenario C+ it's a good grade.

[Anonymous]

Agree. And to be clear.. the case by case thing is not about do I like the kid more than another.. it's about their trend, mastery, and development as we arrived at that point

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. SIS does the rounding for you. The teacher does not need to decide how to round anything. .5 gets rounded up by the program.

Also, SIS allows you to alter the letter grade for the report card without changing the numeric grade in the gradebook. Many times I've been told by a principal to grade on trends and mastery, even if the numeric grade is 92.3, I can make the letter grade an A if I deem it appropriate.

That said, the entire system this year has been rigged to make it as easy and forgiving as possible already. The 79.2 or whatever it is was achieved with a million things already in place to make things super forgiving and fail-proof. Everything has already been put through the 'it's such a hard year' lens. Would I still bump them? Probably. But I dont blame another teacher for not

Actually, this is bullshit. By using the total points grading system you made it much harder for any student to go up a letter grade. I left a post talking about this subject and it was ignored.

Tell the schools to stop using total points and return to normal weighted grading!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Not BS at all, I used a weighted system. Total points was not a mandate across all schools or anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, if a teacher can’t round a grade up .3 points, that is not a good hearted teacher. And yes there is a lot of gaslighting going on in these classrooms. I’d definitely raise as much hell as I possibly could.

You are misrepresenting the situation. A teacher can round up a grade .3 points. In fact a teacher can round up .5 points.

But a teacher cannot raise a grade up .8 points which is what would be needed to get the next grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, if a teacher can’t round a grade up .3 points, that is not a good hearted teacher. And yes there is a lot of gaslighting going on in these classrooms. I’d definitely raise as much hell as I possibly could.

As a good-hearted math teacher, I'll tell you that if that's what you think rounding is, you should join the kid in his math class and hope you can get by with a C+.

You may also want to sign up for remedial English to learn what "I'm sorry" and "gaslighting" mean, too.

Good luck with all that and let us know how it goes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My junior son is ending the the year with a 79.2 in an IB math class. He wrote the teacher to see if he could do anything to bump it up to an 80 and the teacher said no. I’m not usually one to intervene, but it’s a pandemic and FCPS has bent over backwards to help kids out, why not one little .8 boost so he can get a B- on his transcript? He’s attended all classes and studied, it’s not like he blew it off. What would you do?

Butt out. You're the problem here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also have a junior, and I haven't written her teachers about anything since she started high school (in fact, I don't think I contacted her teachers in middle school about her grades, either).

My DD contacts her teachers on her own behalf, and asks them herself. As it should be, since she's almost a legal adult. Mom, it's time to cut the cord. You should not be contacting his teachers anymore. He's 17, not 7.

I agree. I’d led the kid talk to the teacher and when I got involved I’d be talking to school board members, principals, assistant superintendent’s, superintendent’s, state and congressional representatives, state department of education, federal department of education, social media review sites, etc.

You're joking, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. SIS does the rounding for you. The teacher does not need to decide how to round anything. .5 gets rounded up by the program.

Also, SIS allows you to alter the letter grade for the report card without changing the numeric grade in the gradebook. Many times I've been told by a principal to grade on trends and mastery, even if the numeric grade is 92.3, I can make the letter grade an A if I deem it appropriate.

That said, the entire system this year has been rigged to make it as easy and forgiving as possible already. The 79.2 or whatever it is was achieved with a million things already in place to make things super forgiving and fail-proof. Everything has already been put through the 'it's such a hard year' lens. Would I still bump them? Probably. But I dont blame another teacher for not

Actually, this is bullshit. By using the total points grading system you made it much harder for any student to go up a letter grade. I left a post talking about this subject and it was ignored.

Tell the schools to stop using total points and return to normal weighted grading!!!!!!!

NP. You were ignored because you don’t understand the total points grading system. Teachers are not weighting assignments the same. Kids can move up and down just as easily. I saw my son bounce around all year. Maybe some teachers are not using total points correctly but I like it. If tests are worth 100 points, quizzes are worth 50 points and homework is worth 2 points that will not carry the same weight.

In my experience with my own kids, this system has been so much better than weighted grades. You would see them have one poor quiz grade and the average would barely change, despite doing better on the test, because quizzes are worth 30% and the teacher only gave one that quarter. That’s just a random example. Teachers need to watch their grades and how they are entered, no matter which system they use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. SIS does the rounding for you. The teacher does not need to decide how to round anything. .5 gets rounded up by the program.

Also, SIS allows you to alter the letter grade for the report card without changing the numeric grade in the gradebook. Many times I've been told by a principal to grade on trends and mastery, even if the numeric grade is 92.3, I can make the letter grade an A if I deem it appropriate.

That said, the entire system this year has been rigged to make it as easy and forgiving as possible already. The 79.2 or whatever it is was achieved with a million things already in place to make things super forgiving and fail-proof. Everything has already been put through the 'it's such a hard year' lens. Would I still bump them? Probably. But I dont blame another teacher for not

Actually, this is bullshit. By using the total points grading system you made it much harder for any student to go up a letter grade. I left a post talking about this subject and it was ignored.

Tell the schools to stop using total points and return to normal weighted grading!!!!!!!

NP. You were ignored because you don’t understand the total points grading system. Teachers are not weighting assignments the same. Kids can move up and down just as easily. I saw my son bounce around all year. Maybe some teachers are not using total points correctly but I like it. If tests are worth 100 points, quizzes are worth 50 points and homework is worth 2 points that will not carry the same weight.

In my experience with my own kids, this system has been so much better than weighted grades. You would see them have one poor quiz grade and the average would barely change, despite doing better on the test, because quizzes are worth 30% and the teacher only gave one that quarter. That’s just a random example. Teachers need to watch their grades and how they are entered, no matter which system they use.

You are confused. What you just explained IS the weighted grading system. When you have a class and you make everything equal to 1 or 5 points that is the Total Points system. For some odd reason teachers think that's a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. SIS does the rounding for you. The teacher does not need to decide how to round anything. .5 gets rounded up by the program.

Also, SIS allows you to alter the letter grade for the report card without changing the numeric grade in the gradebook. Many times I've been told by a principal to grade on trends and mastery, even if the numeric grade is 92.3, I can make the letter grade an A if I deem it appropriate.

That said, the entire system this year has been rigged to make it as easy and forgiving as possible already. The 79.2 or whatever it is was achieved with a million things already in place to make things super forgiving and fail-proof. Everything has already been put through the 'it's such a hard year' lens. Would I still bump them? Probably. But I dont blame another teacher for not

Actually, this is bullshit. By using the total points grading system you made it much harder for any student to go up a letter grade. I left a post talking about this subject and it was ignored.

Tell the schools to stop using total points and return to normal weighted grading!!!!!!!

NP. You were ignored because you don’t understand the total points grading system. Teachers are not weighting assignments the same. Kids can move up and down just as easily. I saw my son bounce around all year. Maybe some teachers are not using total points correctly but I like it. If tests are worth 100 points, quizzes are worth 50 points and homework is worth 2 points that will not carry the same weight.

In my experience with my own kids, this system has been so much better than weighted grades. You would see them have one poor quiz grade and the average would barely change, despite doing better on the test, because quizzes are worth 30% and the teacher only gave one that quarter. That’s just a random example. Teachers need to watch their grades and how they are entered, no matter which system they use.

You are confused. What you just explained IS the weighted grading system. When you have a class and you make everything equal to 1 or 5 points that is the Total Points system. For some odd reason teachers think that's a good idea.

I’m not confused and I am a teacher too, as well as a parent. I make my tests worth 100 points and quizzes worth 50 points. Why can’t you understand that tests will be worth more than quizzes in a total points system using this method? You are the perfect example of a parent who isn’t a teacher insisting you know what is best for all classes. I know some teachers who use a weighted system and some that use total points. One isn’t better than the other. Please pick a different issue to hyper focus on. Total points is not mandated.