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[quote=Anonymous]8th grade DS had nearly straight As in 7th grade. COntinuing in every class in 8th grade. Applying to Walls, which does this GPA-rank-ordered applicant pooling, if I understand materials correctly.

Key question: will DS get a chance somewhere to explain how his teacher screwed him out of straight As in two classes? Or does the pooling just go straight by the numbers, and a 3.9x kid loses out because the 4.0 pool is big enough to make an entire class?

How we got here: DS has two A-minuses from a teacher who didn't let him redo assignments when he was out of school due to DCPS sports. The teacher gave him the grade-destroying in-class-assignment minimum grade. He still got A minuses even with like a "60-fail" on these "uncompleted" assignments - this kid did everything right when he a chance to do assignments).

This teacher was very intimidating when we asked DS to self-advocate. The teacher told him he couldn't get the assignments and do them, even though this was verified by AP as contra policy. (I believe the policy has changed this year, but not entirely). When we the parents asked, this teacher said it was too late (weeks before end of session, twice).

And it seemed like the teacher never cared about anybody else either. DS said the teacher would hand out worksheets and look at her phone most classes. And I say this next with sympathy, this teacher (per DS) also took an ungodly amount of "mental health days" which I bet were needed if management had any idea how the teacher was "performing."

This year, this teacher's not at that school any more, i.e., got fired or whatever rigamarole DCPS does. Looked up the teacher's name, and the teacher is a substitute, i.e., couldn't even get hired for a permanent position.

I'd love to give a (highly sanitized, non-splenetic/not-for-DCUM) explanation of how interactions with one teacher over a couple assignments that the teacher handled inappropriately were the difference between being in the straight-As-pool and not. Do you think that DCPS (or myschooldc?/OSSE?) will have a way to address something like this?

If not, I guess we just have to shrug and move on. But it's one more reason to remember that DCPS is another bureaucracy and we're subject to how bureaucracies deal with their internal incompetencies (they don't have to care, common sense or policy don't win the day necessarily, they don't have to fix anybody's problems, and citizens always bear the negative results).[/quote]

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