I do hope that OP’s kid applies for jobs or grad school and his posts in TikTok and the like come to light (or perhaps someone who didn’t like him well -he sound like a popular student -sends an anonymous letter to admissions). He should also be concerned about libel

Nobody is ever going to care if the student gets an A or a B in a class. Seriously, the college GPA doesn't count for much when you're talking about differences in the hundredths. The real lesson is about letting go of the small stuff. Not about fighting an imagined injustice over an issue of no significance.

This can not b3 real

Op can not be this insane

If this is true I would never hire your kid

I am on th3 look out for this social media ticktock post and will forward it to every employer I know many

Anonymous wrote:Since OP seems so obsessed with rounding, I will let you know I am a professor who DOES round to the nearest whole number. And yet every semester there are kids like yours who are just shy of MY cut-off for the next higher grade and they come begging for a grade boost, or special extra credit assignments just for them. They do not realize how utterly unfair this would be to the other students to give them special treatment like this. Please stop this nonsense and encourage your kid to study harder next time.

Exactly.

Since OP seems so obsessed with rounding, I will let you know I am a professor who DOES round to the nearest whole number. And yet every semester there are kids like yours who are just shy of MY cut-off for the next higher grade and they come begging for a grade boost, or special extra credit assignments just for them. They do not realize how utterly unfair this would be to the other students to give them special treatment like this. Please stop this nonsense and encourage your kid to study harder next time.

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Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

My syllabus is very clear. I do not round up

You're a controlling and vindictive person, drunk on her own authority. Got it.

Just b/c you own it, doesn't change what you are.

DP. Holy cow. Your sense of entitlement blows me away. Go ahead and let your kid publicly whine about it on TikTok. In fact, maybe you should too. Let's see what happens.

"Posting this on TikTok"?????? WHAAAAT?? I actually look very forward to this. He's going to get creamed.

What a crybaby! Grow up. Both of you.

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Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

My syllabus is very clear. I do not round up

You're a controlling and vindictive person, drunk on her own authority. Got it.

Just b/c you own it, doesn't change what you are.

NP. How is following the rules of the syllabus being "vindictive"? Maybe your kid should study harder.

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Anonymous wrote:As a prof I always round up. Guess that's just me.

Also, if the kid attended every class, went to office hours/ta hours and was working their ass off, most profs would find a way to boost the grade. My own kid had that happen a few times in college. But if the kid wasn't making a 110% effort, they earned the 89.99%. Maybe next time they will make more effort along the way. Better to let them learn that now and make them a better worker in the future

Without any other info - I probably would have given this student an A- too. However, when I was giving grades, I'd take into account the whole semester and the other students grades. If there was a significant gap between this 89.55 and the lowest percentage in the 90's - and if I felt those students in the 90's were a cut above this student, and/or that this student was more like the others in the high 80's - I might be inclined to give them a B+.

Either way - this is something they should speak with the teacher about - and they should be respectful and not act like all they care about is the grade - this will just annoy the teacher. Nothing more off-putting than a grade-grubber who shows no interest in the class and places zero value on what they learned.

Exactly! Many profs and HS teachers have a "no rounding policy and no additional EC" in place because parents and students are crazy rude and pushy. They don't need to (and shouldn't have to) deal with kids who don't work hard all semester who suddenly want to do "more work" cause they dont' have the grade they want. You know what the grading rubric is from day 1 and what you need to do to earn that.

My kids have both had profs like this in HS and college, but who have made an exception (behind the scenes) for a kid who was working their ass off to learn the material--typically it was when the kid went from a really low start to great improvement over the semester, but fell a tiny bit short. I'll admit, my own kid got a 0.5 bump from a teacher in an AP course so they got a B- in Calc BC instead of a C+. It was to not harm their college application process too much. Also teacher had taught the same kid the year before in AB so knew their work ethic and knew it was not from lack of effort (majority of class gets B/Cs yet 95% get 5s and the rest get 4s---nobody ever gets anything other than 4 or 5 on the AP tests for the last 10 years).
Ultimately that kid got a 5 easily on the AP test and went on to get A-/B+ in Calc 3 &4 in college freshman year, so they knew the material.

Anonymous wrote:There have to be cut offs with each grade. He earned a B+. Let’s reverse it. He could have studied harder. He could have read and re-read the chapters and taken notes better. Did he attend every class and sit in the front and raise his hand every class? The grade is on him! Don’t make the professor out to be a bad guy. Also, you want to show respect to your professor, not try to shame them on the internet. His next job prospect will see that attitude and it will bite him in the butt even harder. He earned the 89% and he should settle down. The A’s were probably 90-100. And, the B’s were probably 80-89.9999. Yes, it stings that he was close, but this is fair to have a grade cut-off. Let it be incentive to work harder next term. But, please discourage TikTok nonsense. That will end up making him look bad and nothing goes away from the internet. It’s always there. Always. Teach your kid to be better than that.

THIS!!!

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Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

My syllabus is very clear. I do not round up

Are you a math teacher? If you only round down you aren't rounding correctly from a math perspective. If a math test had the question "is 89.55 between 87 and 89 or between 90 and 92?" The correct answer is "between 90 and 92".

Neither of those answers are correct. If a math test had that question I would not trust the teacher to understand or teach the material.