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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]May be I should ask these questions in a forum where parents do care about their kid and kid's grade and can help with useful suggestions rather than try to establish they are somehow better parents for not caring about grades! There are already plenty of other disappointments that my DD deals with, grades shouldn't have to be one when she doesn't actually deserves it. 
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But she doesn’t actually deserve it.  You do a lot of blaming of so-called lazy teachers and vague rubrics.  This is a learning opprtunity for your child.  Next time, she can ask questions about the rubric beforehand if she is unclear.  A B is GOOD.  It’s middle school.

Do you have any idea how many students your child’s teacher has and how much grading and entering do grades that they do?  Let’s say 125 students over 5 classes.  That big project your kid got a 50 on…do you think the teacher spent 1 minute grading it?  5 minutes? 10 minutes?  I’d guess I spent at least 5 minutes per assignment per child when I used to teach.  That’s 11 hours of grading for that one single assignment.

How much planning time per week does your child’s teacher get?  Most likely, 5 hours.  During that time, she also has to attend IEP meetings, weekly team meetings, read her email, work on assigned administrative tasks and data collection, take any required online trainings, answer colleague and parent emails, and OH..,PLAN HER LESSONS.  So she’s already working a full extra 7 hour day over the weekend to grade this one single assignment.  Multiply that across all the other assignments.

The teacher is overworked, not lazy.  Your kid earned a B.  Move on. [/quote]

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