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LSP2005
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My dd came home upset today from school because she saw that the boy who sits next to her was not graded incorrectly for an identical answer. This is not the first time it has happened with this teacher. She got the correct answer, but not the final form. She wrote it in dollars instead of fractions. This has happened about 3 times where her test is marked incorrect, but others will get full credit. So instead of getting a perfect test she gets a 99. So she is upset with herself, but also upset that the teacher let's others slide but not her. What would you do?
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Posted 3/28/19 4:39 PM  |
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Cruisin
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How old is your DD?
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| Posted 3/28/19 8:47 PM |
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LSP2005
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Re: Grades
Posted by Cruisin
How old is your DD?
why does that matter?
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| Posted 3/28/19 9:19 PM |
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PitterPatter11
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I'm a teacher and this happens occasionally. There are so many papers to grade that you are bound to make a mistake - teachers are human too. When students bring it to my attention, I correct it in the grade book accordingly. One extra point on a test, quiz, or HW will have little to no effect on their overall average.
I would have your child discuss it with the teacher. It was probably just an honest mistake. I do not think that the teacher is letting other kids slide.
I think the previous poster was asking for age because an older student should talk with the teacher about it independently. An older ES, MS, or HS student can easily verbalize to the teacher that their grade is not accurate, while a first grader might not be able to do that. Plus at the younger grades, a 99 or a 100 makes no difference, but at the HS level, it could (but probably doesn't) have an impact.
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LSP2005
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Ah, I understand. She is in 4th. She tried to say something about it to the teacher yesterday. The thing is, I get mistakes. We all make them. However, this is the third or fourth time this year it has happened. So my dd is getting upset. Which, at this point I really understand because she feels like she is getting picked on by the teacher. There have been other comments by the teacher where my dd comes home and is upset. So it's not like some isolated event which I would chalk up to a mistake. So I dont know if I should escalate it
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| Posted 3/29/19 11:16 AM |
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Cruisin
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Re: Grades
Posted by LSP2005
Posted by Cruisin
How old is your DD?
why does that matter?
Yes, because depending on age to have the child speak with the teacher themselves. They sometimes respect that more than coming from a parent.
From what you say though, if there’s been more that you or your DD are concerned about then maybe you can reach out to the teacher as well. I think it really depends on the class/teacher. I could totally see something like your situation occurring in my DS’s class (4th grade) this year and it wouldn’t surprise me. Last year, 3rd grade, different teacher - no way.
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| Posted 3/29/19 2:18 PM |
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Chai77
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I would encourage my fourth grader to speak with the teacher himself and ask her to explain to him why the answer is incorrect. If he tried and couldn't or didn't get a good answer, I would email her myself if he was upset.
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| Posted 3/29/19 2:27 PM |
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lululu
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I would tell her to stop looking at her classmates tests. If she legitimately got the question wrong she shouldn't worry about whether or not the other student was given credit. The teacher could have a lot of reasons, perhaps those kids are struggling in math and she wants to help their confidence because they were close enough. This is only 4th grade. The grades don't matter at this point. If it were high school I would tell her to question it. But how is that going to make her look to the teacher that she is looking at someone else's score?
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Katareen
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Re: Grades
Posted by lululu
I would tell her to stop looking at her classmates tests. If she legitimately got the question wrong she shouldn't worry about whether or not the other student was given credit. The teacher could have a lot of reasons, perhaps those kids are struggling in math and she wants to help their confidence because they were close enough. This is only 4th grade. The grades don't matter at this point. If it were high school I would tell her to question it. But how is that going to make her look to the teacher that she is looking at someone else's score?
I agree with this, although I think everyone should be graded the same across the board regardless of abilities. But if the answer was wrong, she shouldn’t be given credit—she’d just be taking credit away from others.
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| Posted 3/29/19 7:26 PM |
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M514
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Posted by lululu
I would tell her to stop looking at her classmates tests. If she legitimately got the question wrong she shouldn't worry about whether or not the other student was given credit. The teacher could have a lot of reasons, perhaps those kids are struggling in math and she wants to help their confidence because they were close enough. This is only 4th grade. The grades don't matter at this point. If it were high school I would tell her to question it. But how is that going to make her look to the teacher that she is looking at someone else's score?
I agree. Yes, it is very unfair that this happening, but if she got the answer wrong, then she got it wrong. They shouldn’t be comparing grades or even what questions they got wrong.
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