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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sympathetic irl the teachers but they should be sympathetic to the kids too.  My kid was absent and thought they had made everything up last week.  I even emailed the teacher to ask and they said it was all in but grades hadn’t posted.  Grades now posted and it turns out kid missed a test !  I’m pretty upset.[/quote]

Have you checked in again with the teacher? You’re keeping track of one child’s grade. They are keeping track of many. (If this is high school, it could be over 150 students.) Teachers are also parents, so they are keeping track of their own kids’ grades.

It’s easy to make a mistake when you are in charge of that volume of data. It’s possible this was a simply oversight from a teacher who has 45 minutes to do 7-8 hours of work.

Just check back in. Most teachers will say “oops! Let me fix this.”[/quote]

The teachers response was that they had done okay on the subsequent test….but that F on a test is really dragging down the overall grade.  I asked them to reconsider but haven’t heard back, which might be that they are busy or might be their way of telling me to jump in a lake.

My personal experience with dozens and dozens of MCPS teachers is that the vast majority are totally reasonable about this stuff .
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I neve respond to parent requests regarding grades. That always should come from the student, otherwise they won’t put in the effort or the work to improve. It has to come from them. Good on that teacher. [/quote]

That is really cruel of you.  For a 14 year old child that has been told “oh you missed the date”, you expect them to do their own self advocacy with an adult in a position of authority in all cases?  Think more about the power dynamics of that.  If you had to go in and make your case to someone with a lot more power than you (a judge) you might reasonable want an advocate to assist you.  Heck, I bet you might even call your union rep to assist you if you feel like your principal has not given you a fair hearing with respect to an issue.  [/quote]

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