Anonymous wrote:This kind of pressure on kids is truly a sickness. I have a kid who was a National Merit Scholar and went to college on a full merit scholarship. We too value education, but not at the expense of mental health. You people need help.

And yet here you are.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is old enough to be in A2, your kid can talk to the teacher and see if there is something that they can do to earn the extra .1-- extra credit, test corrections or the like. In DC's school, some teachers will give extra work or just bump closed grades because they take pity on your kid-- although that might depend on whether you kid gave 100% vs missing the cutoff because of a lot of missing homework. Some teachers will not bump grades ever. It is entirely teacher dependent and entirely the teacher's call.

Your kid can try. But, he should ask for extra work, and not just a grade bump. And it must be your kid who talks to the teacher and works it out. You need to stay out of it. And under no circumstances do you go over the teacher's head. You want the principal or counselor to do what-- change the FCPS grading scale? Your kid earned an A- Good lesson for next time not to cut it so close.

This is all great advice. Go on SIS and see if there were any missing assignments or anything specific that could have made the difference

This. Ask the kid to talk to the teacher if he can do an extra assignment to get the grade up. Geometry is a HS credit so why miss out on an A if you can help it?

+1. If your child wants the A, your child should approach the teacher. I suspect if your child is otherwise a fairly good student and is asking about doing extra work to earn a grade improvement, the teacher will at least seriously consider it.

If the teacher says there are no additional opportunities for extra work to raise the grade, at least your child tried and the answer will be a life lesson.

+1000

By far the best reply, apart from couple of similar ones.

My child did go and ask teacher and she was considerate enough to reevaluate an assessment test and a homework.

Trolls can now go find another topic.

PP - sounds like these are 9th grade TJ grades from your description - which gives plenty of time for the learning to sink in - good time for the lesson that the work does need to be done when the teacher expects it ...

iPhone: kid DID not do test corrections, did the BARE minimum, and got a BUMP to an A- etc.

Anonymous wrote:Just got final grades for my kid at TJ. Had final grades of 79.6 (B-), 89.4 (B+) and 89.3 (B+).

Sometimes these things work to your kid's advantage, sometimes they don't.

+1. My TJ kid had a final of 79.3, and now has to live with a C+ in math (fortunately just a semester class). Kid do not do test corrections or retake a low test grade that qualified. Kept telling us there was no way the teacher would give him a C+, the teacher would curve final grades, the final exam would be easy, etc. He emailed the teacher to ask if he should consider retaking the class, and the teacher replied that he got a C+ doing the bar minimum, which showed he was capable of a much higher grade if he put in the work. And the teacher is right. TJ math has been the first time my kid has had to work hard for grades. My kid earned the C+ fair and square, and that is on him. Lesson learned, I hope.

But the same kid had a teacher curve him up .6 or so for an A- in a different class . I suspect the whole class was curved. But, it may have been that my kid had a rough transition to TJ, and that his grades jumped a lot after first month. And that he worked very hard in the class. So, I'm glad he got the numb.

What I tell my kids: you get what you get and you don't pitch a fit.

Just got final grades for my kid at TJ. Had final grades of 79.6 (B-), 89.4 (B+) and 89.3 (B+).

Sometimes these things work to your kid's advantage, sometimes they don't.