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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Children have a right to get their assignment graded on time. If you are overwhelmed complain to your admin that you need more help, or quite like everyone else that doesn’t get adequate support.[/quote]

The right?

The RIGHT?

Tell me, where is this right enshrined?

No.  Just, no.  [/quote]

Right to information and participation
Parents have the legal right, via the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA, 1974), to inspect their child’s educational records at the school, to have them explained if necessary, to request updates and corrections, and to have their child’s education records sent to another school in a timely manner if they wish to have their child transfer schools.

https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/the-greatschools-bill-of-education-rights-for-public-school-parents/[/quote]

Their educational records referred to in this law DO NOT include their latest math test.[/quote]

Of course they do. If I want to schedule a meeting the day after the test to review the results that’s my right.[/quote]

NP.  Do you mean the results as in your child's answers or the graded test?  Because while the ungraded test is probably technically a record under that law (although arguably not under 20 U.S.C. 1232g(a)(4)(B)(i) if the teacher has started grading it but not returned or put it in the gradebook yet because then it is "records of instructional, . . . personnel . . . which are in the sole possession of the maker thereof and which are not accessible or revealed to any other person.") I don't see how requesting to review such records under that law requires the teacher to grade it any faster or slower.  They just may be required to give/show you a copy of the ungraded test.  Unless you think teachers are hoarding piles of graded assignments and just not handing them back to the students?

By all means if you think teachers are grading assignments too slow, then reach out to them, and if you and the teacher can't resolve it then go up the chain, not disagreeing there, but please stop pretending that scheduling a bunch of meetings based on educational record review laws is going to help any more than old fashioned complaining through letters or phone calls. [/quote]

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