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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid is old enough to be in A2, your kid can talk to the teacher and see if there is something that they can do to earn the extra .1-- extra credit, test corrections or the like. In DC's school, some teachers will give extra work or just bump closed grades because they take pity on your kid-- although that might depend on whether you kid gave 100% vs missing the cutoff because of a lot of missing homework.  Some teachers will not bump grades ever.  It is entirely teacher dependent and entirely the teacher's call.

Your kid can try. But, he should ask for extra work, and not just a grade bump.  And it must be your kid who talks to the teacher and works it out.  You need to stay out of it. And under no circumstances do you go over the teacher's head.  You want the principal or counselor to do what-- change the FCPS grading scale?  Your kid earned an A-  Good lesson for next time not to cut it so close. [/quote]

This is all great advice. Go on SIS and see if there were any missing assignments or anything specific that could have made the difference [/quote]

I'm a MS teacher. PP indicating it is at teacher's discretion is correct, at least in FCPS. I always look at quarter-end grades, and for kids who are this close, I consider (at least my perception of) their overall engagement with the course material -- if they (again, from my perception -- I know I can't possibly know the "truth" about each kid) seemed to be giving it their best, I would bump them up.  I'd be less likely to bump if kids were missing more than one assignment. [/quote]

What if the kid who did all the assignments had the low grade because they got things wrong on everything turned in and truly didn't understand the material, but the kid missing a few assignments totally understood the material, but was immature and forgetful with turning things in? If you are tweaking grades like that, are you ultimately grading maturity or knowledge of the subject matter?[/quote]

Good question! Again, this is where the overall engagement (or my perception of it) comes in. A kid could choose not to do assignments/forget to turn them in (although that said, my class policy allows kids to turn in work for two weeks after the due date and I work closely with my chronically-forgetful ones to make sure they have their paper materials OR I already have access to them through Google) and engage in the in-class work, which I could observe and use to justify bumping up the grade. I tend to err on the side of giving kids as many opportunities as possible to turn in work, so by the time I'm looking this closely at grades, the student has had many chances to complete and submit the assignments.[/quote]

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