<p>hey guys,</p>
<p>grades came out yesterday,and i ended up getting a b in spanish. i got an 88.98 and an a is an 89.45. i have to send an email to my teacher to ask to bump my grade since she said she'll be absent tomorrow. how should i phrase this to sound as genuine as possible. thanks.</p>
<p>Well, if she made a mistake, don’t worry about letting her know. You might have to talk to the school administration because they file the actual reports and could have been the ones to mess it up.</p>
<p>The teacher most likely did not make a mistake. The student just feels entitled to a better grade for some reason.</p>
<p>Ask her if she would consider adding a point to your grade this marking period and subtracting a point from next marking period’s average. This way it doesn’t seem like you’re asking for a freebie</p>
<p>You didn’t get an A. Why do you deserve it?</p>
<p>No read the OPs post more carefully, he said he got an 88.98 which is an “A” and his teacher didn’t count it as an “A”. Unless he made a typo.</p>
<p>^89.45 is an a, not 88.98.</p>
<p>honestly, i think you should just leave it. there are some teachers at my school (not many…only a few) who have bumped grades but will do it on their own accord. you don’t ask a teacher to bump it up because honestly, if he/she has not done it themselves, it means that they follow the rules and will not bump grades for anyone. try harder to get an a next time. trust me, i’ve been there before when trying to get high honors at my school, just live with it. and like already said, it would kinda be unfair to other students who actually earned the a, just earn it next time around.</p>
<p>yeah just to clarify i did get a b, and it’s my fault that i got a b. i’m not going to make excuses, but it deserve an a because my first marking period grade was an 87.47 and the second marking period grade was a 90.5. in my school marking period grades don’t matter, the grade is an average of the grades in the four marking periods. had i been given 4 marking periods to bring my grade up, i have no doubt that i would have an a in the class. usually, my first marking period grades are lower because i have to get adjusted to the teacher etc. unfortunately, semester grades are seen by colleges and i don’t have those extra two marking periods to bring my grade up. technically this isn’t the teacher’s fault, but i’m still getting screwed over here. i know the material, and i can guarantee that i could get an a if i was given 4 marking periods. i literally gave more effort for this spanish class, which happens to be an honors class than i did for all of my other classes which are ap classes. i know it is cowardly to ask for a raise, but i’m applying to ivy league schools, and one b in spanish could affect my chances. again, thanks for your help and suggestions.</p>
<p>Oh I see, I though it said 89.98 , sorry.</p>
<p>For those saying she or he doesn’t deserve the A b/c she or he didn’t deserve it. That isn’t necessarily true. Some teachers and professors weigh grades differently and even if you get A’s on every exam you can end up w a B. that happened to me in HS and in college. In HS I talked to my teacher and she agreed I should have an A. In college I had to email a professor and he saw it my way and I got an A.
No harm in talking to your teacher if you feel you deserve that A and they agree w you.
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<p>I agree with another poster that you should ask if you can get the fraction of a point you need this semester and then ask for it to be taken from the next one.</p>
<p>I’m going to disagree with the above posters. It doesn’t matter if you think the teacher’s system is flawed. It’s her system, she designed, it works the way she wants it to, and under her system, you didn’t get an A. Simple as that.</p>
<p>And I understand that you’re worried about your college chances, but that doesn’t change the fact that you didn’t earn an A.</p>
<p>“89.45 is an a” – how in the hell is that an A? 89.45 does not round to 90. You can’t round twice hahaha what a stupid teacher.</p>
<p>Happened to me a week ago. I had a 96.99 in geometry and an A+ is a 97. I sorta joking asked if I could get it marked up (the teacher is pretty cool in general and is ‘friends’ with all the students). I got shot down when she said No way.</p>
<p>^that’s ridiculous, you should have gotten bumped up by .01%. anyway obviously i didn’t deserve an a given the grading policy, but i believe i know the material, and i’m 100% sure i would have an a for the yearly grade. i still don’t get why semester grades matter at all. semester grades have no bearing in my school’s gpa, and they shouldn’t be counted at all for classes unless the classes are semester classes. now the colleges will not see my full effort for a class, they will only see one half, and i don’t think that one half represents my understanding.</p>