Basically, we took a test and I got a 30/30 (Reading Comprehension/Characters+Vocab Words about TKAM) but the class average was a 20/30 and many people got below 50% because they didn’t read the book.
The teacher then decides to make the grade formative, meaning it only has 30% weight, significantly hurting my grade but helping everybody elses, which I feel is unfair.
Do you agree that I should ask for her to make it Summative and possibly bring it up to the school since it would bring up my grade, and in my opinion, is purely unfair. I decided to study for the test that we knew exactly what was going to be covered.
I don’t feel that people should get their grades formative to help them (Many would have C’s or worse because of the test most likely) and if they do get them formative, I should also be helped and get it to be summative for me, 70%.
I think it is unfair, and lots of things are unfair, but it’s the teacher’s call, and you should accept that and move on. Complaining about grading is a bad habit to get into, especially with regard to recommendations. Even if you do not want a recommendation from this teacher, this will not help your reputation as a student.
In my opinion she did this to me because of racial and political bias, as we have to partake in many political and social questions and have to participate, and it seems as if she is doing this to punish me for my views.
This isn’t a round up, I am just standing up for my rights. How can she tell us that it is summative then change it, causing me to waste time studying, as formative basically has no weight. This is not a round up, I just don’t believe she should be able to impose on me. The round up thread was foolish, and this is unfair, in my opinions.
In college there are grade appeal procedures where you could legitimately complain that the instructor wasn’t following the grading scheme in the syllabus. High school isn’t like that.
Based on experience, if this one assessment turns out to be the one deciding factor which ends up bringing your actual letter grade down, you might consider bringing it up once grades are due (make the argument that you work really hard in the class and bring up the test as an example etc.), but if not, it’s best not to argue with your teacher.
I agree with @MaineLonghorn. If you keep complaining and annoying people about little things like this, where the teacher is trying to help the majority of students (and you look like you got an A on this one anyway), then you are going to make a lot of enemies in life.
In my experience, when companies have layoffs in many cases they don’t lay off the incompetent employees. They lay off the employees that the managers don’t like. The employees who the administrative assistants don’t like get the lousy offices after a move. I heard of one case where the traveler who annoyed the people at the check in counter had his bags “accidentally” sent to England when he was flying to California (from the eastern part of the US). There are many examples like this.
You don’t want to be the student that the teachers don’t like.