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[quote=Anonymous]I’m on the other side of this. Despite trying to be a fair grader while maintaining academic standards, every semester there is at least one student who didn’t make the cutoff but believes that they should get a higher grade for no other reason than that they were so close. No other reason! It is as if they believe grade boundaries should not exist, or that boundaries should be flexible just for them. I always explain it’s not fair to move the boundary down one point to an 89 just because that’s where a student landed and they “worked hard” and were disappointed about it. Imagine if I actually did this. Then I would probably get approached by kids who got an 88, and so on and so forth. Also, while I am sympathetic to kids who do not understand the concept of standards or fairness, I am more surprised when it is parents who do not understand.[/quote]
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