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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have any experience dealing with a harsh grader teacher? any point in arguing? or at this point, go the "expunge" route? 
watching my kid who gets the questions, but fails to finish them clean.

If we were to expunge the score, do we still need to finish the class?

Thanks, to the wise ones.. [/quote]

1. He can drop out now and expunge the grade and retake Geometry next year.

2. He can continue and pass the course and expunge the grade and still move on to Algebra 2 in 8th grade. 
 
3. Not sure about arguing with the teacher. DS has a harsh grader in summer geomtry as well. He had a 102 in Algebra 1 but is hovering around 97-98 so far. [/quote]

Thank you. Didn't know there's option #2 as well. Yeah I wasn't so sure about arguing with the teacher, doesn't matter how harsh he seems to be. An example, kid got points deducted by writing Triangle ABC, instead of ACB... In a way, the kid is punished more for being careless/sloppy, than not getting it/not paying attention, in my opinion. Oh well, who says life is fair.

Again, thanks for all the advice and insight! [/quote]

Depending on the type of problem, triangle ABC and triangle ACB are very different.  This could be wrong in many situations in geometry.  People don’t understand this and teachers hear frequently “but my child is an A student and has never struggled before!”  Geometry is different and Algebra 2 will be as well.  It’s HS math now.  - math teacher [/quote]

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