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[quote=Anonymous]So we just got our 5th grader's report card, and after a long run of straight 4's he abruptly ended up with a mix of 2's and 3's for this quarter. We have no idea why, from all the work we've seen he seems to be performing up to his usual standards and his parent teacher conference was quite effusive; the best theories we have are that either he somehow managed to screw up several big assignments without telling us (and without those assignments having come home yet) or he simply rubbed his teacher this year the wrong way somehow and they chose to conceal their dislike for him at the conference. We've reached out to the teacher, but I doubt it'll change anything.

This is a problem because he's applying to private schools for next year. His ISEEs are 8's and 9's, and as I said his previous grades are outstanding, but between this and what I assume is a correspondingly poor teacher recommendation I'm feeling like his odds have just gotten a lot longer. (I guess the good news is that only his 4th grade GPA counts for public school and he'll easily sail into a screened program there - and Hunter/Stuy after that based on his test-taking skills)

My questions are:

a) are we in fact as doomed as we think we are; and

b) is there anything we can do at this late point to soften the blow? Is it worth writing an explanatory letter after we talk to the teacher? One school asked for a second recommendation and that one came from a teacher who likes him a lot better (and gave him better grades), but even if we asked that teacher to send a letter to other schools, I doubt they'd have it before the end of next week, which I imagine is much too late to matter.[/quote]

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