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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again. I have checked with other parents (including parents of very Type A kids), they have verified the partner grading policy. I know several parents are upset but our kids do not want us to say anything because they are worried the teacher will retaliate and they know they will have this teacher for pre-calc and calc because he is the only one who teachers it at the school.

I don't want to say the school district but it is a suburban school district that is generally thought to be good but not amazing (ie not a "W school" or Langley).[/quote]

Not possible. All the parents I know would demand that this teacher change their grading policy and they wouldn't be fazed by fear of retaliation. I have older kids, and they each had one really bad teacher that their schools could not fire. One was the only AP Calc BC teacher in the school, and the other was the only physics teacher in the school (doing Honors and AP Physics C). But despite being very difficult to learn from in various ways, their grading policies were the ones required by the school system and they did adhere by the rules. Hence why they were not fire-able (just really bad teachers - and you can't tell a bad teacher to teach better, they can't do it).

This is entirely batshit crazy and you parents should have complained to the Principal in the fall. There is no "retaliation" possible here. The retaliation part is a red flag for trolling, actually. All you're asking is for this teacher to abide by conventional grading methods. You're not asking for them to be fired. Public school teachers are used to fielding all kinds of complaints. If the Principal comes to them and says: "confirm for me whether you've been half-assing the grading and if you have, stop that right now and grade everybody's tests correctly", the teacher can't do a darn thing.

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