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[quote=Anonymous]Parent here:

It sounds like you are looking for feedback for your child--which is extremely important with an AP class.  However, if you are concerned about grades, here is my experience:

DS (who is long graduated now) had a teacher who gave him a mediocre grade at mid-term.  We sat on him and he worked very hard and his work improved greatly.  (That's the purpose of mid-term grades.)  However, at end of quarter, his grade was worse than at mid-term.  Turns out that the work that brought his grade down had been turned in long before mid-term, but his teacher had not yet graded the work.  As I recall, it even included a test.  It was English, so it was mostly papers.

I looked up the policy on FCPS website, and it said that the grade should reflect the work before that time. In other words, the teacher was not following policy.  She was grading retroactively.  I contacted the counselor and we had a meeting with the teacher and the counselor.  I did not bring up the policy, but it was clear the counselor was aware.  The grade was changed.

The policy was quite clear--I'm not sure I stated it clearly, but grades reflect the work during the appropriate period.
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