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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This could be my DD's AP Lang teacher.  It is unfortunate, because DD there was one meh essay that brought her grade from an A to a B for the quarter with no time to do anything to regain it.  More upsetting to my DD is 1) he only grades about 1/3 of the essays, and 2) her final grade ended up at a 89.4 (B+).

Credit to DD, she advocated for herself.  The meh easy was supposed to be a draft, but since he never returned it, he graded it like the final.  DD wanted to revise it.  The teacher did not want to grade more, but he did add a class participation grade.   That got her year-end grade unto an A-. [/quote]

I'm glad he ended up giving her the "credit" for what would have happened had the draft actually been graded as a draft with a revision. It is still a story about an irresponsible prefssional since he punted on letting her do the actual learning.
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In Lang it was almost certainly a timed write for which there are no revisions. Redos and revisions are often not allowed in courses that receive that high of a GPA bump either. [b]The kid has no way of knowing that only 1/3  were graded[/b]. That is literally not credible or believable. If anything the teacher would grade none if they weren’t going to grade all but nobody grades 1/3 and only 1/3. Great way to have your gradebook audited especially in an AP course. [/quote]

I read the PP's statement as only 1 out of 3 essays submitted were graded for everyone meaning there was a substantial amount of work that was not graded for anyone.  [/quote]

I read this as only 1/3 of each essay was graded. This I’ve seen done many times in MCPS. The teacher may assign 3 writing skills, but only grade one in the end.[/quote]

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