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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 9th grader and he just came home saying he had a bad day. He gave a group presentation and seems the teacher thought him and another kid was giggling in a “serious” presentation. So the 2 out of 4 kids got 0 out of 30 points. Right now he’s still probably barely hanging on to an A.…just around 90% after this hit to grades I think.

My son insists he wasn’t laughing and just had his back turned cause he is a fidgeter and prob trying to hide his fidgeting behavior when his team mates were presenting. This is fairly normal behavior for him, but this is the first time a teacher just knocked and entire grade off to zero for behavior. Maybe he wanted to set an example? I can understand 50% but this seems a bit harsh. Especially my son is adamant he wasn’t laughing which is why teacher reprimanded him.

If grades weren’t so important in high school I would just let it go. But finals are coming up and that 3% off of his grade may just make a huge difference in A vs B. He has a B in his math class but he deserves it because he wasn’t understanding the concepts. This type of grading behavior from teacher is more concerning to me since it’s just subjective.

So…should I email the teacher about this incident or just let it go? I told my son it’s a life lesson where he’s got to learn to manage up, or seriously watch himself whenever he encounters such hard ass teachers. On the other hand, I’m very tempted to write the teacher to find out what happened or at least let him know about his fidgety behavior (which was also helpful with another teacher last year). WWYD?[/quote]

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