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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here,

Grades are supposed to be entered weekly, but that doesn't happen with fidelity at my school for a number of reasons. In your situation, it sounds like the teacher fell severely behind. In that case, I would have dropped those grades. You *could* raise the issue to the principal and have the grade changed, but they've been watching grade changes in Schoolmax like a hawk due to the recent graduation scandals. The teacher would catch hell.

We follow two dates at my school. There's a date when assignments have to be submitted before our gradebooks "close," and there's the date in which we have to enter grades. There's usually a good week or so in there for the buffer. I can't understand why the teacher was still entering assignment grades so close to the quarterly grades going in. That's just asking for trouble, especially with kids who are on the cusp of an D/E. [/quote]

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Thanks for that info.  Good to get input from educators.

I have emailed the teacher about it and her response was what I expected.  One of the issues for this assignment was that the instructions did not provide clear instructions.  She also seems to dislike the TAG pull out and doesn't give the kids a chance to do the in class work they miss.  My kid had 5 in class assignments where she got zeros.  I specifically asked if there were missing in class assignments and she didn't reply.  Those grades weren't recorded until Weds afternoon.

There is a whole bunch of other issues with her but it all leads me to believe she shouldn't be teaching.  She had been shuffled from school to school and our Principal got stuck with her when another teacher was transferred a week before school started.  She is a difficult woman with a terrible attitude and the kids are afraid of her.  It's not just our family that has been having problems.

Luckily we only gave a couple of months left.  I did document everything and sent the Principal an email.  I ended the email stating I didn't expect a grade change but I wanted to put it on the record.  
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