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I’ve been teaching high school for a very long time and I don’t understand this. I’m also having a hard time believing you have access to other students’ grades, at least enough of them to determine some type of pattern. 
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You'll have to trust me on this - I can't explain further without describing this teacher's particular grading scheme in detail, which would make the teacher very identifiable to anyone who has taken a class with them. But it's a very obvious issue and doesn't require any sort of pulling back the curtain on how the assignment was actually scored. Imagine it's a multiple choice test with questions of equal weight and two students both got 18/20 but one exam got recorded as an 89 and one a 91 - it's a similar sort of issue.[/quote]

I can’t imagine a scenario in which that would happen. 18/20 is a 90. There isn’t some grand formula involved. And, in the  unlikely chance there is, then I suspect it’s akin to rounding. I will round up for students who have demonstrated effort and dedication. That’s even written in my policies.

And still - you keep referencing other students’ scores. I can’t imagine you have a large enough sample to make an argument that your child was somehow scored down.

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