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[quote=Anonymous]No.  In fact, teachers’ names may not even be on the transcript.

The best way to handle this is the three part method known as gaslight, K**en and shoot yourself in the foot.

First, use the “tell us anything else we should know” section of the common app to explain why the bad grade is the teacher’s fault and not your child’s.  Really document this well and explaining detail, so the college understands how different your kid is from the millions of other HS kids who think their B (ir C or D) is unfair. Your kid is a different— he’s a high achiever dang it!  Make sure colleges know that.

You should upload all of the hard tests, harshly graded papers, etc., directly up to individual college portals as “resumes” so the colleges and review it themselves as  see how really unfair the teacher is.   You can really drive this point home by having your kid write the “overcoming adversity” essay about how he screwed around, got a bad grade, and dug himself into a hole his parents couldn’t buy his way out of. Really show them your kid’s tenacity in the face of adversity.

Second, K*r*n.  Honestly, I can’t believe you let it get this far— two whole months after your kid started actually doing the work— without contacting the school and demanding a refund. You aren’t paying that much money for a flawed transcript!  Make sure the school knows you are prepared to sue if your child gets a B.  This is the part of the plan where you do whatever version of talk to the manager, get yourself a refund and leave a bad Yelp review you believe is appropriate.

Third, make sure your kid really shoots himself in the foot by requesting a college recommendation from this teacher, who will be grateful for the opportunity to explain exactly how they feel about your kid. I mean, your worked really hard for two months— after two months of screwing around.  That’s a “strong upward trend”.  Any teacher would be impressed if mom and dad started complaining in this situation.

There you go. a sure fired method for making your kid stand out from every other “high achiever” who played fork around & find out, the high school transcript version. 
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