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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did he do on the IB test for the subject? If he got a 6 or 7, it will be clear that there was something screwy with the grades.  If he got a 2. 3, will be clear he didn’t learn the material.
I do hate how much arbitrariness there is—especially for kids at public schools.  My kid had a teacher last year that didn’t cover half the material on the test—which she readily acknowledged and said she just didn’t have time.  My kid squeaked out a B with the help of a tutor, but many others had Cs and Ds, and they are all top students who were really working hard.  It killed my kid’s love of the subject.  She had friends this year in an AP class with a totally unqualified teacher who didn’t teach any of the material—the kids set up a study group and tried to teach themselves off Khan.  Luckily neither of those teachers are teaching those classes going forward — but it stinks for the kids who were the ones that had to prove that the teachers were not teaching.  The hiring situation for schools now is pretty bad so they are just throwing whoever into whatever spots  in some cases.  
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My DC got a B- and a B in Calc BC and the B- was really a C+ that the teacher rounded for my DC because they were so close and work so hard both this year and last year--teacher wrote stellar recommendation for my kid, so knew where they were applying and that a C of any type would really hurt them (of course so did the B- with a 3.96 UW GPA before senior year)    Teacher just grades hard.  However, for the last 10+ years, teacher has a 99.999% of students earning 4 or 5s on the AP test (like only 2 or 3 have ever not earned that).  My own DC says they most like got a 5 on the test, based on how they have done with all the practice AP tests in class throughout the year and for the final month.  Yet, my kid will most likely get credit for the course.  My kid knows the material, the teacher is just challenging as she pushes them to get a 5 on the actual AP test.  So the prep work and teaching is amazing, but the grade doesn't reflect the actual knowledge IMO.  Oh, well it is what it is at this point.  What matters is that my kid learned the material and feels confident going into Calc 3 freshman year.

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