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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why yes, I have driven by and to--every damn day--because my kid can't get up early enough to take the bus.  I've already told you I have a sophomore in the class.  Please try to pay attention.  :roll: [/quote]

Wow -- if you have a child in the class also, you'd think you'd be more sympathetic to what our kids are going through and what we, as parents, are going through.  If your child is doing well, that's fantastic.  But as you can see from these posts, he/she is in the minority.  This isn't a bunch of crazy parents just looking for their kids to make As.  We're trying to keep our kids from getting Fs and Ds in a class we are confidant they can do better in if the assessments weren't so out of whack with what the majority of students can do.  [/quote]

I am sympathetic to what the kids are going through.   A test with a 65 average sucks.  However, the best way to deal with this is to lets the kids get together and advocate for themselves.  My kid did better than the average, but didn't get the grade she would have liked.  The thing is that [b]you[/b] can't keep your kids from getting Ds and FSU.  That is their job.  Let them do it.[/quote]

He is what you don't get. Many kids ARE following the self advocacy guidelines, and are getting nowhere.

Also, that the guidelines were designed for individual kids having problems they need work out with the teacher-- they don't agree with a low grade, or have several major assignments due at once, or some such.  Systemic problems in the school-- which this has become, since it has not been formally addressed by the Math 4 team math department or administration, despite many kids raising concerns-- [b]these are parent issues[/b].  
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Then I suggest you start with the counselors. Burke and Ketchem were especially helpful and good advocates for my kids. One child had an issue with a new history teacher who was assigning 30-page short answer history packets per week which were impossible to finish with level of work in the other classes (other kids were splitting up the work in groups - an honor code violation). We went to the counselor who was able to advocate for our child and explain the issue to the teacher, who then adjusted the level of work.

And I have to laugh at the PP who said that Dr. Glazier would've helped with this - are you kidding me? [/quote]

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