Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any experience dealing with a harsh grader teacher? any point in arguing? or at this point, go the "expunge" route?
watching my kid who gets the questions, but fails to finish them clean.

If we were to expunge the score, do we still need to finish the class?

Thanks, to the wise ones..

1. He can drop out now and expunge the grade and retake Geometry next year.

2. He can continue and pass the course and expunge the grade and still move on to Algebra 2 in 8th grade.

3. Not sure about arguing with the teacher. DS has a harsh grader in summer geomtry as well. He had a 102 in Algebra 1 but is hovering around 97-98 so far.

Thank you. Didn't know there's option #2 as well. Yeah I wasn't so sure about arguing with the teacher, doesn't matter how harsh he seems to be. An example, kid got points deducted by writing Triangle ABC, instead of ACB... In a way, the kid is punished more for being careless/sloppy, than not getting it/not paying attention, in my opinion. Oh well, who says life is fair.

Again, thanks for all the advice and insight!

To give you an analogy, I am an English teacher. If a kid puts a comma in the sentence, which they should based on that sentence’s structure, but not in the right place, I am marking it wrong. Your kid’s math teacher isn’t being a harsh grader- transposing the letters of a triangle actually means something in that content area. You can’t just write anything and get credit for it. It sounds like your kid wasn’t ready for the accelerated pace of summer math nor the method of doing it online

Anonymous wrote:We told you not to let your DC take geometry over the summer...

I was thinking the same.

Math gets HARD. Next year it will be even harder!

^ Adding to my post, I’m curious, were these problems having anything to do with congruence or similarity? ABC, CBA and BCA would be different and only one would be correct.

Details matter in math. For example, it likely means labeling the triangle correctly means labeling it with the angle being addressed in the middle. That’s not a harsh grader, that’s a math teacher.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any experience dealing with a harsh grader teacher? any point in arguing? or at this point, go the "expunge" route?
watching my kid who gets the questions, but fails to finish them clean.

If we were to expunge the score, do we still need to finish the class?

Thanks, to the wise ones..

1. He can drop out now and expunge the grade and retake Geometry next year.

2. He can continue and pass the course and expunge the grade and still move on to Algebra 2 in 8th grade.

3. Not sure about arguing with the teacher. DS has a harsh grader in summer geomtry as well. He had a 102 in Algebra 1 but is hovering around 97-98 so far.

Thank you. Didn't know there's option #2 as well. Yeah I wasn't so sure about arguing with the teacher, doesn't matter how harsh he seems to be. An example, kid got points deducted by writing Triangle ABC, instead of ACB... In a way, the kid is punished more for being careless/sloppy, than not getting it/not paying attention, in my opinion. Oh well, who says life is fair.

Again, thanks for all the advice and insight!

Depending on the type of problem, triangle ABC and triangle ACB are very different. This could be wrong in many situations in geometry. People don’t understand this and teachers hear frequently “but my child is an A student and has never struggled before!” Geometry is different and Algebra 2 will be as well. It’s HS math now. - math teacher

You are having a middle schooler take a high school math class over the summer? That's so
dumb.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any experience dealing with a harsh grader teacher? any point in arguing? or at this point, go the "expunge" route?
watching my kid who gets the questions, but fails to finish them clean.

If we were to expunge the score, do we still need to finish the class?

Thanks, to the wise ones..

1. He can drop out now and expunge the grade and retake Geometry next year.

2. He can continue and pass the course and expunge the grade and still move on to Algebra 2 in 8th grade.

3. Not sure about arguing with the teacher. DS has a harsh grader in summer geomtry as well. He had a 102 in Algebra 1 but is hovering around 97-98 so far.

Thank you. Didn't know there's option #2 as well. Yeah I wasn't so sure about arguing with the teacher, doesn't matter how harsh he seems to be. An example, kid got points deducted by writing Triangle ABC, instead of ACB... In a way, the kid is punished more for being careless/sloppy, than not getting it/not paying attention, in my opinion. Oh well, who says life is fair.

Again, thanks for all the advice and insight!

The summer classes go through roughly one quarter worth of material in one week.

The students have to be 100% locked into the class and ready to work on it several hours per day.

If your kid is not good in math, or gets distracted by their phone or zones out even a little bit, they are going to struggle in summer math no matter how strong the teacher is.

If your kid is in summer geometry, earning a poor grade, and past the point of dropping the class, you or their fwther needs to make a commitment to take away their phone and sit near them for the remaining classes, to make sure that they are completely engaged in the class, taking notes and asking questions.

Then you need to make sure that they are spending several hours outside the class studying, reviewing notes, and doing the homework and practice sets On Paper, not on the computer, and checking every answer to make sure they understand it.

Summer math is NOT a blow off, remedial class.

If your kid is on their phone or not paying attention even a little bit, and is not a math genius, they will struggle in the class at no fault of the teacher.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any experience dealing with a harsh grader teacher? any point in arguing? or at this point, go the "expunge" route?
watching my kid who gets the questions, but fails to finish them clean.

If we were to expunge the score, do we still need to finish the class?

Thanks, to the wise ones..

1. He can drop out now and expunge the grade and retake Geometry next year.

2. He can continue and pass the course and expunge the grade and still move on to Algebra 2 in 8th grade.

3. Not sure about arguing with the teacher. DS has a harsh grader in summer geomtry as well. He had a 102 in Algebra 1 but is hovering around 97-98 so far.

Bad idea. I would expunge the grade and retake during the school year.

We told you not to let your DC take geometry over the summer...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summer geometry has a reputation. It's not the teacher...

+100, it’s really not a great idea to take this class in the summer

Only strong students can keep up that pace. I'm glad someone told us how hard it was before I signed my son up for it. It's an entire year in a few weeks.

Anonymous wrote:Summer geometry has a reputation. It's not the teacher...

+100, it’s really not a great idea to take this class in the summer

Summer geometry has a reputation. It's not the teacher...

Does anyone have any experience dealing with a harsh grader teacher? any point in arguing? or at this point, go the "expunge" route?
watching my kid who gets the questions, but fails to finish them clean.

If we were to expunge the score, do we still need to finish the class?

Thanks, to the wise ones..