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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is only March. Shouldn’t there be more projects to come, that will balance the grade out a bit more? Otherwise what are they doing in that class from now until June?

Maybe she can’t redo the project but could she do some work for extra credit? Something like that? This seems very harsh.

IME most HS electives teachers are reluctant to actually fail a kid, unless there is a severe issue with effort or behavior. One of my own kids also has a horrid experience with ceramics BTW. Also related to big project gone wrong. I think she ended up with a C in there when all was said and done. Maybe even a B-. But, it was very stressful.

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They have 2 terms. Term 1 ends at the end of March and term 2 starts in April so her grade for term 1 will be F. That’s the term she will have to retake next year. Im waiting for the teacher to get back to me on what else she could do but she said the teacher did refuse giving her more time [/quote]

So even if she tries to retake next yr, it’s going to still be there on her transcript when she is applying to colleges in the fall. That is BS.  I’d talk to the teacher and take it to the principal or dean of students if the teacher is not being reasonable.  No one she get an F in ceramics that is showing up and putting in effort. Projects breaking is part of the process in ceramics. This isn’t college, this is a high school elective- meant to expose kids to arts. That is literally the purpose of these electives.  As long as students are following the directions to the best of their ability they should pass with at least a B. It isn’t supposed to be a class that demands proficiency or expertise. [/quote]

That’s my concern and the fact that there was nothing to alert me as a parent that she was going to fail the class. The app shows A every week on all the participation and random things. Her grade was updated to F this week. Going to F from A with 0 explanations doesn’t make any sense to me. Im still waiting for the teacher to get back to me to see if there is more to the story but getting an F in Ceramics while all her other classes are A & A- is crazy to me [/quote]

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