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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it a quarter grade or a semester grade?[/quote]

Quarter grade, but got E the 1st quarter so his grade are E E.  
LD student with ADHD taking Spanish 1A.  [/quote]

What was your reaction to the first E?[/quote]

I agree with this.  When your DC got an E in the first quarter, that was when you needed to take action.  You should have asked for a parent-teacher conference, asked about whether IEP was being followed, discussed what DC needed to do in the second quarter to bring the grade up and then you needed to augment at home to ensure that your DC was doing what was needed at home, to make sure she was prepared for class and to ensure that she was doing the work at home.

[b]E followed by E means that there was a warning, but neither the student nor the parents felt the need to heed the warning and make changes to what was done in the second quarter. [/b]

I also agree that giving your child an unearned D is actually going to be worse for them than having the E.  Ywillour child has not learned enough to advance to Spanish 2, so getting a change to a D will only advance them into a course that they are unprepared for.  She will work twice as hard in Spanish 2 and still fail the class.  That becomes demoralizing.  She would do better to accept the failing grade, retake Spanish 1 and do better the second time.[/quote]

Agree with this.  It doesn’t take a lot to earn a D.  If the student has special needs there are things that can be done or taken into account prior to grades coming out.  Teachers should not be required to give unearned grades after the fact.

Foriegn language is not even a required for graduation which means this class could have been dropped.  Blaming the teacher is unproductive.[/quote]

Yes it is a graduation requirement[/quote]

DP - no it's not. There are other tracks you can do in place of foreign language. [/quote]

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