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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:19:37 again.

I asked my kid about the remaining notations for missing work. They said the teacher said not to worry about making up the work since they had an A in first quarter and an A going into the illness,. But what I'm seeing in Blackboard is a B with several 50% grades for the second quarter.

I get that the transcript only shows the combined semester grade but it is unnerving to have them end up with a B for the second quarter when it would have been easy to submit missing assignments. And in fact, they still technically seem to have a couple of more days to submit given that missing work makeups are allowed for as many days following an illness as they were out of school.

Am I overthinking this?

A bit of overthinking - and maybe a bit of under thinking too.
First, as PP stated, all that matters grade wise is semester grade, which stays an A. So on that front no worries. And if your only concern is grade, then there is no worry.

You are overthinking it. Let it go.
But if your worry is material missed, sure you could insist TO YOUR CHILD (not the teacher!) that they make up the work; and whether or not that work gets officially entered in gradebook, and grades get changed would not matter. But the issue here isn't the teacher, it's your child. You state "they said the teacher said" - not what the teacher said to you. And so there is the possibility (not the certainty, just the possibility) that your child asked the teacher a question in such a manner, and related the information to you in such a manner - as to minimize said child's needed efffort! Hey, kids are smart, especially when it comes to figuring out ways to efficiently minimize workloads! So perhaps the under-thinking is the part where you took your child's description of the situation as a solid gold unvarnished description of the situation, LoL! Again, kids are clever!

So if your interest is making sure your child hasn't missed out on important material, then perhaps a friendly email to the teacher asking that question is appropriate. And making it explicit to the teacher you aren't expecting a grade change, as you realize it won't matter, but that you are interested in making sure your dearest child is up to snuff academically, would likely go across well. Indeed, without any "grade grubbing" pressure, the teacher may on their own choose to do the paperwork and "fix" the marking period grade.

And as to your comment about set number of days equal to days missed; kinda true and kinda not. The end of the semester is in some ways a hard deadline that, to some extent, trumps that rule. This is obviously very true at the end of second semester, also known as the end of the school year. Given teacher's aren't even employed at that point, it's kind of hard to hand in an assignment a few days late once the school year ends. (Actually, it can be done, but there is quite a bit of friction to doing that at all sorts of levels of bureaucracy). Basically the rules are .... potentially ambiguous .... when it comes to the end of a semester and hard deadlines. So playing the "official absence policy" card in such a situation may not be the wisest, especially given playing it gains you nothing on any official transcript; that semester A stays an A, and nobody outside you and yours every even know that B on a MP report card exists.

All the above is of course merely the humble opinion of someone that used to teach.

Interesting points, and now that you mention it, it's entirely possible that the kid suggested that the quarter grade didn't matter and the teacher agreed. I'm not so worried on the learning front--the kid is very good at the subject.

But on the grading front, it seems like everyone internal to the school will see the quarter grade (for instance, the counselor who ultimately writes a college rec). Probably won't matter. But it seems like a less than ideal solution for a lot of reasons. Hmm.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:19:37 again.

I asked my kid about the remaining notations for missing work. They said the teacher said not to worry about making up the work since they had an A in first quarter and an A going into the illness,. But what I'm seeing in Blackboard is a B with several 50% grades for the second quarter.

I get that the transcript only shows the combined semester grade but it is unnerving to have them end up with a B for the second quarter when it would have been easy to submit missing assignments. And in fact, they still technically seem to have a couple of more days to submit given that missing work makeups are allowed for as many days following an illness as they were out of school.

Am I overthinking this?

A bit of overthinking - and maybe a bit of under thinking too.
First, as PP stated, all that matters grade wise is semester grade, which stays an A. So on that front no worries. And if your only concern is grade, then there is no worry.

You are overthinking it. Let it go.
But if your worry is material missed, sure you could insist TO YOUR CHILD (not the teacher!) that they make up the work; and whether or not that work gets officially entered in gradebook, and grades get changed would not matter. But the issue here isn't the teacher, it's your child. You state "they said the teacher said" - not what the teacher said to you. And so there is the possibility (not the certainty, just the possibility) that your child asked the teacher a question in such a manner, and related the information to you in such a manner - as to minimize said child's needed efffort! Hey, kids are smart, especially when it comes to figuring out ways to efficiently minimize workloads! So perhaps the under-thinking is the part where you took your child's description of the situation as a solid gold unvarnished description of the situation, LoL! Again, kids are clever!

So if your interest is making sure your child hasn't missed out on important material, then perhaps a friendly email to the teacher asking that question is appropriate. And making it explicit to the teacher you aren't expecting a grade change, as you realize it won't matter, but that you are interested in making sure your dearest child is up to snuff academically, would likely go across well. Indeed, without any "grade grubbing" pressure, the teacher may on their own choose to do the paperwork and "fix" the marking period grade.

And as to your comment about set number of days equal to days missed; kinda true and kinda not. The end of the semester is in some ways a hard deadline that, to some extent, trumps that rule. This is obviously very true at the end of second semester, also known as the end of the school year. Given teacher's aren't even employed at that point, it's kind of hard to hand in an assignment a few days late once the school year ends. (Actually, it can be done, but there is quite a bit of friction to doing that at all sorts of levels of bureaucracy). Basically the rules are .... potentially ambiguous .... when it comes to the end of a semester and hard deadlines. So playing the "official absence policy" card in such a situation may not be the wisest, especially given playing it gains you nothing on any official transcript; that semester A stays an A, and nobody outside you and yours every even know that B on a MP report card exists.

All the above is of course merely the humble opinion of someone that used to teach.

Interesting points, and now that you mention it, it's entirely possible that the kid suggested that the quarter grade didn't matter and the teacher agreed. I'm not so worried on the learning front--the kid is very good at the subject.

But on the grading front, it seems like everyone internal to the school will see the quarter grade (for instance, the counselor who ultimately writes a college rec). Probably won't matter. But it seems like a less than ideal solution for a lot of reasons. Hmm.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:19:37 again.

I asked my kid about the remaining notations for missing work. They said the teacher said not to worry about making up the work since they had an A in first quarter and an A going into the illness,. But what I'm seeing in Blackboard is a B with several 50% grades for the second quarter.

I get that the transcript only shows the combined semester grade but it is unnerving to have them end up with a B for the second quarter when it would have been easy to submit missing assignments. And in fact, they still technically seem to have a couple of more days to submit given that missing work makeups are allowed for as many days following an illness as they were out of school.

Am I overthinking this?

A bit of overthinking - and maybe a bit of under thinking too.
First, as PP stated, all that matters grade wise is semester grade, which stays an A. So on that front no worries. And if your only concern is grade, then there is no worry.

But if your worry is material missed, sure you could insist TO YOUR CHILD (not the teacher!) that they make up the work; and whether or not that work gets officially entered in gradebook, and grades get changed would not matter. But the issue here isn't the teacher, it's your child. You state "they said the teacher said" - not what the teacher said to you. And so there is the possibility (not the certainty, just the possibility) that your child asked the teacher a question in such a manner, and related the information to you in such a manner - as to minimize said child's needed efffort! Hey, kids are smart, especially when it comes to figuring out ways to efficiently minimize workloads! So perhaps the under-thinking is the part where you took your child's description of the situation as a solid gold unvarnished description of the situation, LoL! Again, kids are clever!

So if your interest is making sure your child hasn't missed out on important material, then perhaps a friendly email to the teacher asking that question is appropriate. And making it explicit to the teacher you aren't expecting a grade change, as you realize it won't matter, but that you are interested in making sure your dearest child is up to snuff academically, would likely go across well. Indeed, without any "grade grubbing" pressure, the teacher may on their own choose to do the paperwork and "fix" the marking period grade.

And as to your comment about set number of days equal to days missed; kinda true and kinda not. The end of the semester is in some ways a hard deadline that, to some extent, trumps that rule. This is obviously very true at the end of second semester, also known as the end of the school year. Given teacher's aren't even employed at that point, it's kind of hard to hand in an assignment a few days late once the school year ends. (Actually, it can be done, but there is quite a bit of friction to doing that at all sorts of levels of bureaucracy). Basically the rules are .... potentially ambiguous .... when it comes to the end of a semester and hard deadlines. So playing the "official absence policy" card in such a situation may not be the wisest, especially given playing it gains you nothing on any official transcript; that semester A stays an A, and nobody outside you and yours every even know that B on a MP report card exists.

All the above is of course merely the humble opinion of someone that used to teach.

Anonymous wrote:19:37 again.

I asked my kid about the remaining notations for missing work. They said the teacher said not to worry about making up the work since they had an A in first quarter and an A going into the illness,. But what I'm seeing in Blackboard is a B with several 50% grades for the second quarter.

I get that the transcript only shows the combined semester grade but it is unnerving to have them end up with a B for the second quarter when it would have been easy to submit missing assignments. And in fact, they still technically seem to have a couple of more days to submit given that missing work makeups are allowed for as many days following an illness as they were out of school.

Am I overthinking this?

Anonymous wrote:19:37 again.

I asked my kid about the remaining notations for missing work. They said the teacher said not to worry about making up the work since they had an A in first quarter and an A going into the illness,. But what I'm seeing in Blackboard is a B with several 50% grades for the second quarter.

I get that the transcript only shows the combined semester grade but it is unnerving to have them end up with a B for the second quarter when it would have been easy to submit missing assignments. And in fact, they still technically seem to have a couple of more days to submit given that missing work makeups are allowed for as many days following an illness as they were out of school.

Am I overthinking this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid’s teacher made a small grading mistake. There’s no reason to bring it up if it doesn’t matter for the final grade (still waiting on some postings) but also a don’t want to miss the opportunity if it does make a difference!

Bring it up politely, "I noticed that..." and it is not a big deal for the teacher to spend 5 seconds (or less!) correcting BEFORE grades are finalized on Friday.
But correcting AFTER the final submission, as i recall, requires paperwork, and sign-offs from a variety of folks and is somewhat of a pain. So waiting till after grades are finalized to get that grade change from an 89.49 (B) to an 89.51 (A) is not a great way to win over the teacher!

Anonymous wrote:Kid’s teacher made a small grading mistake. There’s no reason to bring it up if it doesn’t matter for the final grade (still waiting on some postings) but also a don’t want to miss the opportunity if it does make a difference!