<p>Friday was my 18th day of school. For those that have started, do you guys have any funny stories, teacher policies, or first impressions? </p>
<p>I returned my Honors English II progress report: a 99. I told the teacher "I'm proud that this 99 is my lowest grade." (I have a 100 in AP Calculus BC online, a 109 in AP Physics B online, and a 100 in SPA 111 online)
Without thinking she gave me her default speech very seriously, "Well, if you just tried harder and did your work." I have the highest grade of any of her students. 5 minutes later, she realized what she said and looked really embarrassed. </p>
<p>Also, I have a 109% in AP Physics B because my teacher gives 1 point of extra credit on any assignment for every error you find in the [online] course.</p>
<p>Is this a crazy-teachers/policies thread, or a post-what-your-grades-are thread?</p>
<p>If the former, almost all of my teachers are quite crazy, and their crazy policies are too numerous to type out.</p>
<p>If the latter, I have
AP Macro - 108
AP Latin Lit - 100
Philharmonic Orchestra - 100 [lol, duh]
AP Calculus BC - 102
AP European History - 80 [OUCH, but only because I have a "0" on this huge summer assignment, which happens to be 20% of our grade right now (I got put into the class too late to even do the summer assignment), but I'll be making that up this Tuesday. Man that 80 looks bad right now]
AP Lit - n/a [we have no grades.. we've done like 20ish essays, nothing graded yet.. uhh...]</p>
<p>I've had a couple of teachers who gave flagrantly overinflated (in my case) grades.</p>
<p>The one that comes to mind most was my Chem/Phys teacher from freshman year -- he would assign extra credit for each unit and we could earn extra credit on all of our tests, and the top projects also received extra credit.</p>
<p>Suffice to say, my grade going into the final was a ~130%. I received a 115% on the final (extra credit yay) and everyone hated me for it. :D</p>
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Is this a crazy-teachers/policies thread, or a post-what-your-grades-are thread?
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<p>I thought the grades were necessary background. Although I am very excited that my grades have improved greatly over last year's. Besides, I knew most people would have higher grades than me. I only had a ~96 average last year. :)</p>
<p>Definition of a CCer: When the teacher gives you a 100, your grade goes down.</p>
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No one in my school ever gets averages over 100. *** @ everyone here.
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I'm also very excited that this is my first year with teacher who give extra credit. :) For me, no one else in my school ever gets averages equal to or greater than 100. LOL</p>
<p>BTW... do your school's enter the grades on the transcript as over 100? My school doesn't and online teachers are unable to report a grade over 100 as a final grade. </p>
<p>Oh.... and my calculus and physics teachers "convert" grades from their 10 point scale to everyone else's 7 point scale... but they both do it differently. </p>
<p>AP Calculus BC: 90 converted to a 93
AP Physics B: 85 converted to a 93, 95 converted to a 100</p>
<p>My 9th grade science teacher wouldn't hand back papers unless you said "Thank you" first. She also made us clap after someone said something, and they had to be at least three "hearty" claps, and not sarcastic. And there was like thirty other rules.</p>
<p>This wasn't a policy when I had Chemistry last year, but this year, the science teacher is making all of her students cover their textbooks with brown paper bags; then, they have to duct tape over the paper cover. Is that not a ridiculous policy?</p>
<p>I'm not taking a science this year. I've already taken four of them, and my science teachers in high school all suck. So there.</p>
<p>My Spanish teacher also insanely overinflates grades. I just show up and get a 102 in there. There are other students that don't do so well, but there are plenty like me who find it way too easy. I language subjects come easily for some and not for others.</p>
<p>I have to record weather for Environmental Science AP, and I found this ridiculous. Does anyone else here have/had to keep track of weather for that class?</p>
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My 9th grade science teacher wouldn't hand back papers unless you said "Thank you" first. She also made us clap after someone said something, and they had to be at least three "hearty" claps, and not sarcastic. And there was like thirty other rules.
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LOL The only thing we have close to that is that we have to sign that we received our progress reports in order to receive them.</p>
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the science teacher is making all of her students cover their textbooks with brown paper bags; then, they have to duct tape over the paper cover. Is that not a ridiculous policy?
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0_o </p>
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I have to record weather for Environmental Science AP, and I found this ridiculous. Does anyone else here have/had to keep track of weather for that class?
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"Today will be sunny with slight overcast" :)</p>
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In 8th grade, I had to keep track of moon phases. I pretty much just bluffed everything.
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"Oh great, another full moon. We'll have a lot of crazy behavior today."</p>
<p>Ugh. 7th grade was our "record the sunrise/mood phases!"
Um, eff you... It's call weather.com for moon phases, and once you record the first sunrise and the last one, you just evenly spread out 30 days of sunrises between the two...</p>
<p>lol ***? i thought this place was on policies
well, i'll actually be on topic unlike the most of you :P
My school has this policy that you have to wear, yes, WEAR your I.D. card on you with a little clip they give you. If you don't wear it, they don't help you at the office at all
so i went in there without it on because i threw mine away (since's it's so stupid) and asked them a question
they go "where's your i.d.?"
And i go, it's right here and i show it to them
they go, "i'm sorry, you have to be wearing it or i can't help you"
And then i say "what's the point? don't you just have this wearing policy so you know who attends the school?"
They go, "Yes, but you have to be wearing them"</p>
<p>What kind of ******** is this?</p>
<p>So the next day, i go in and i still don't have the tab so i take out my i.d.
hold it with my hand to my chest and walk straight up to them and they say
"you have to wear your I.D. or we can't help you"</p>
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My school has this policy that you have to wear, yes, WEAR your I.D. card on you with a little clip they give you. If you don't wear it, they don't help you at the office at all.
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You will get written up and possibly get suspended if you don't have your ID card at my school. That is, if you can get into the building first.</p>
<p>LOL holy crap i thought you were an administor from my school threatening me by somehow finding out where i went to school until i finished your post</p>
<p>but dude that sucks
the only reason why my school is doing this is because of a threat some kid pulled saying there will be a shootout after the virginia tech incident and lead to like 2/3 of the kids at school not coming
it was an awesome day....we had like 10 kids in each class lol and the school seemed deserted (my school is huge - 4500 kids)</p>
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LOL holy crap i thought you were an administor from my school threatening me by somehow finding out where i went to school until i finished your post
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Who says I'm not. :) j/k My (min-magnet) school is near an inner-city school... so that's why we have cards.</p>