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[quote=Anonymous]Yes she turned her down. She turned her down because she has other students who followed the instructions properly and received the grade their earned without melting down. If she allows the student to re-do the project then she needs to allow all the other students to re-do the project. It is not fair to the kids who followed directions and turned in the proper work at the proper time. Nor is it fair to the other students who did not do the work properly and accepted their poor grades.

There are consequences for not completing your work on time and properly. The OPs child is learning that lesson at the moment. The difference is the OPs kid is in 6th Grade and needs to learn how to sit down and break down assignments so he does not skip or miss steps. The OPs son will hopefully start to develop the necessary skills.

OP: I understand your concerns. If the teacher is not following the IEP/504 that needs to be addressed immediately. My IEP required that the teacher review the directions with me, individually, so that I understood them. I learned to make my list and to check things off the list as I completed them. It took time but things got better as I developed the habit. I fully understand being upset that a teacher is ignoring the IEP/504. That is not acceptable.

But some of the other issues are addressable. You might think drawing a border is silly but if it was a part of the assignment, it was part of the assignment. Complete the assignment. I also see a value to partial credit for properly translating even if they were in the wrong place. I would expect some credit but probably not enough to pass the assignment.

Here is the thing, grades in 6th grade are not on a permanent record so this is all good learning material. Sit down with your son and ask him how he could prevent such mistakes again. Use these as opportunities to develop tactics that will help him avoid similar mistakes.

I was the kid with dyscalculia and dysgraphia so math sucked for me. I flunked because I could not get the correct answer. How the hell do you get the correct answer when the numbers move and flip on you? In 9th grade I had a teacher who actually took the time to go through my problems and see where numbers had been reversed. She discovered that I understood the concepts and was doing the math properly except that the numbers were flipped, reserved, transposed. She did not give me full credit but my traditional D in math went to a B. I understood the concepts and the process. She did this when she was confused that I was coming in for help and working hard and somehow was flunking. It didn't fit the pattern. I was retested, my LD's were magically rediscovered, my IEP reinstated (long story), and I went from being a D student to an A student with the addition of resource support and an IEP.

IEPs have to be followed and teachers who know that a child is struggling with LDs or ADHD or whatever can stand to be a bit more compassionate and take a few extra steps in grading their work. If there is something going on that is associated with the known issue, it should be addressed.

So please work with the school to make sure your sons IEP is followed but also work with your son to help him develop skills he needs to not be the college kid who did the wrong project. 
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