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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teacher is not jaded. You're just not smart enough to understand how the process works.

So let me help you.

Core classes have county finals.  Once the results are finalized (scores put into the system), the finals are indeed sent back to central office.  So if Important Mom of Snowflake wants to look at them, she'll have to go through central office, as teachers do not make copies of each one.  Teachers are under a deadline, too.  So it's not as though these finals are hanging around, collecting dust in the schools.

High school courses are semesterized, too. So once the final is given, the course is done, and grades are finalized.

Furthermore, if Important Mom of Snowflake had paid attention to Snowflake's grade all along, IMS would know that formatives (as well as reteaching/reassessing - another component to a teacher's job)  were given over the semester.  So if Snowflake had a solid 85 over the semester, the chances of earning a 95 on an exam are slim.

I love these tired old lines - [quote]Sorry you have become a bitter, jaded teacher.  You would be doing us all a favor if you found a new profession.[/quote]

Since when is a teacher jaded when s/he is doing his/her job?  Such displaced hostility you have, buttercup.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The exams in the middle of the year are final exams. The material will not be tested again at the end of the year. I know that at the school in which I teach the exams are already shipped out. The is no possibility of going over them. If you were my student's parent, even if you had contacted me earlier it would have been the same thing as you were told: meet before school or after. Unfortunately, I have children too and would not be able to accommodate your schedule in this case. I would give up my lunch or a planning period to go over it with the student.
Ideal? Of course not, but it is reality. FWIW, the only time I have ever had a parent interested in this is when the student is grade grubbing for a point or two on the BCRs to swing them up a letter grade. I have never once had anyone look over their exams for legitimate learning purposes. Sad, but true. That's not to mean you feel that way, OP, but consider that is what we deal with constantly. Maybe your principal is jaded from all of the angry helicopter parents.[/quote]

Under the law, whether the tests are "shipped out" or not, the student and parent still must have access if they ask for it.

If you would give up your lunch or planning period for a student, you must also do so for the student and parent together.

Sorry you have become a bitter, jaded teacher.  You would be doing us all a favor if you found a new profession.  [/quote][/quote]

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