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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I emailed the teacher and asked her to clarify the grading rubric as well as detail the behavior that resulted in him not earning 18 of 25 points.  teacher responded with: "oops, I made a mistake in the grade entry and recorded points lost instead of earned, and meant to email you but we had technology issues, so sorry".

She also explained the lost points: three points lost for teamwork for making a comment to a kid about smacking him if he cut the pancake wrong (no evidence that anyone took this seriously with the exception of the teacher).  Okay, makes sense, stupid comment, dock him for teamwork, he ends up with 7/10 points for that.  The other 5 points were lost on clean up (5 of 5 possible points) because of the following circumstances: one kid burped; teacher corrects him.  My kid burped moments later; she tells him to sit out for final 5 minutes of class if he can't behave.  So he has to sit our for clean up, meaning there is no way he can earn those points, so he gets 0/5 points for clean up.  She says neither of these is a "big deal".

So here's what I take from it: one, she can't do math. Not sure how she arrived at 7 points in the grading system if she meant 8 points lost and got the "lost" versus "earned" confused. Two, she applies different consequences for different kids. Burping kid #1 gets a verbal correction; burping kid #2 gets told to set out and automatically loses 20% of his potential grade.

She's already updated the grade in the system to 17/25 points. He has now earned a D+.   [/quote]

He got a different punishment because she'd already given the class a verbal warning about burping and he went ahead and did it anyway. Your kids was defiant and disrespectful. and he didn't tell you about that despite your claims that he's always very self-aware and honest about his behavior. [/quote]

THIS THIS THIS!!!!!!!

Your kid is a jerk. You should be seriously questioning your parenting failures and not the teacher. Like, why does he thinks it’s perfextly fine to comment on another kid’s action and threaten to hit him? Why does he think it’s okay to burp after there has been one warning already? I can tell you precisely why. It’s because Mommy Dearest has led him through life 1) making excuses for him and cleaning up his messes, and 2) she has told him that his diagnosis is an excuse to do whatever he likes and everyone else just has to deal with it.

You really suck, OP. You really do. [/quote]

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