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[quote=Anonymous]Not an English teacher, but I am a teacher and grade writing. To be completely honest, I more often than not I don’t even look at the names of the documents when I’m grading (virtual rubric). You get 150 essays and you really got to get in a groove to bake progress. OP is why I use rubrics for everything, if you’re going to lose points you’ll have it explicitly stated why and it’ll be info that was available the entire process.

Truthfully I teach MS so if I get a parent really going to the May for a grade I just give it to them. What’s the point? The grade is supposed to be a metric at that point to let the parents know how the student is doing, if they want to break it and make it inaccurate that’s their call, I don’t get paid enough to argue about 8th grade C+’s.

The only time I’ve ever really been “biased” has been the inverse of what OP is suggesting. From time to time I’ll get a student who is breaking their back but struggling, if I’ve seen them really put the time in I have been more generous. To me it’s best practice, if you work your tail off and never get a W you’re likely to disengage. Even then I wouldn’t really say the grades I gave weren’t anything I couldn’t stand by, more like giving the benefit of the doubt on borderline infractions. I don’t know any teacher who cares enough to be punitive in their grading, I do know many who do what I do and try and reward earnest effort.[/quote]

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