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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest works her tail off to keep usually straight As but has had [b]the odd teacher that is just a screwup [/b]- grading oddly or tanking kids.  (Twice she received the exact grade to the decimal on an essay to bump her average to the next lowest lettter grade - no rubric, no comments, no markings, nothing to indicate how the subjective grade was decided on) Whatever.  My kid has an awesome attitude and a self-motivated work ethic and that's what will make her successful in life.  I think she's too hard on herself but I'm just the laid back parent![/quote]

Yes, if your child has less than an A, it must mean that the teacher is a "screwup."  Right.  You are doing your child no service by teaching them this attitude.  
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Neither of the above posters, but there are teachers that grade quite strangely. DD's teacher for AP Lang told the class, direct quote, that he "didn't believe in giving As until the end of the year." It was a very tough class and a daily source of frustration for my DD, but she came out at the end of the year a much stronger student, despite having received her first grade lower than an A in an English class. So there's that, OP. DD got more out of the class with her B than most of her friends that flew through the same course with an A from another teacher. A does not necessarily equate to success. [/quote]

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