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[quote=Anonymous]This is OP - I thought this thread had died, but just came back to this subforum and saw additional posts.

To the poster directly above, after posting here and thinking for a bit, that's exactly what I had intended to do - ask at the parent-teacher conference what we could do at home to support our son when he feels he's done his best but the grade doesn't reflect what he "thought" he'd earned. Neither of us have taken that language, so it's all on our kid and what happens in class for the most part. And as I mentioned in op, my intention was not to make problems for the teacher, but to inquire in a way that didn't seem accusatory.

In any event, it's all moot at this point. He went to the class a few days after seeing his grade on google classroom and as I had suggested, was set to show the teacher the rubric he followed, point out where he'd attempted to address all the requirements, and ask teacher how he could improve.

As it turns out the majority of the points were taken off because of artwork that accompanied the essay, not the essay itself. (Apparently the kids were given a choice to do artwork or some other supplemental work for this project.) So he did meet requirements of the rubric for the writing piece. The artwork may be re-done to gain points back. So all is good in this instance.

There's a lot of pressure put on both students and teachers these days and I'm sympathetic to both.

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