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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a prof I always round up. Guess that's just me.[/quote]

Also, if the kid attended every class, went to office hours/ta hours and was working their ass off, most profs would find a way to boost the grade.  My own kid had that happen a few times in college.  But if the kid wasn't making a 110% effort, they earned the 89.99%.  Maybe next time they will make more effort along the way.  Better to let them learn that now and make them a better worker in the future[/quote]

Without any other info - I probably would have given this student an A- too.  However, when I was giving grades, I'd take into account the whole semester and the other students grades.  If there was a significant gap between this 89.55 and the lowest percentage in the 90's - and if I felt those students in the 90's were a cut above this student, and/or that this student was more like the others in the high 80's - I might be inclined to give them a B+.

Either way - this is something they should speak with the teacher about - and they should be respectful and not act like all they care about is the grade - this will just annoy the teacher. Nothing more off-putting than a grade-grubber who shows no interest in the class and places zero value on what they learned.

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Exactly!  Many profs and HS teachers have a "no rounding policy and no additional EC" in place because parents and students are crazy rude and pushy.  They don't need to (and shouldn't have to) deal with kids who don't work hard all semester who suddenly want to do "more work" cause they dont' have the grade they want.  You know what the grading rubric is from day 1 and what you need to do to earn that.

My kids have both had profs like this in HS and college, but who have made an exception (behind the scenes) for a kid who was working their ass off to learn the material--typically it was when the kid went from a really low start to great improvement over the semester, but fell a tiny bit short.  I'll admit, my own kid got a 0.5 bump from a teacher in an AP course so they got a B- in Calc BC instead of a C+.  It was to not harm their college application process too much.  Also teacher had taught the same kid the year before in AB so knew their work ethic and knew it was not from lack of effort (majority of class gets B/Cs yet 95% get 5s and the rest get 4s---nobody ever gets anything other than 4 or 5 on the AP tests for the last 10 years).  
Ultimately that kid got a 5 easily on the AP test and went on to get A-/B+ in Calc 3 &4 in college freshman year, so they knew the material. 
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