I got an F

[albino]

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That seriously sucks. Teachers/administrators can indeed be unreasonable. I also had a problem with my school’s administration early this year and got my parents involved. Basically, my school, against my county’s policy, would not let me switch out of a class on the first day of school. After being REALLY persistent, I finally got my administrator to budge.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t recommend getting your parents to directly confront the school unless absolutely necessary. They may inadvertently convey your message the wrong way and exacerbate the situation. And DO NOT have your parents shout at them. That only makes matters worse and makes things awkward for you later on. My parents also don’t speak English all that well. I basically wrote emails using their account, assumed their voice, and sent the emails to my grade level administrator (who, by the way, was really stubborn and didn’t take my problem seriously). Be polite but firm. And be persistent. If that isn’t effective, have your parents call and insist that the school rectifies the situation. And if they shoot your demand down, have your parents go in and confront the involved parties. Again, I cannot stress the importance of being both adamant and polite in your request.</p>

<p>Make sure your problem doesn’t go ignored. As another poster mentioned, your parents are paying them so that you can get into a good college, and an F will be, as I’m sure you are well aware, potentially detrimental to you for admissions. Do make sure you don’t potentially anger your counselor, though. He/she will have to write you an evaluation come admissions season, and I don’t believe teachers/counselors are capable of being completely 100% unbiased when it comes to these things. He/she might hold whatever ill-feelings he/she has against you. That’s something that I had to consider when I tried to resolve my problem…it was early fall, and hence, right before I had to go ask for recommendations. Kind of made things a bit difficult.</p>

<p>Good luck. These things unfortunately do happen in schools. I’d also go *****slap the teacher, lol.

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<p>Hmm… I haven’t made an appointment yet… I will try the email thing like you said, I didn’t think about that (with my parents’ permission of course). By the way, I was totally joking about my parents shouting at them in case you didn’t catch that, lol. I’m not that crazy. Anyway, I will try the email suggestion, and then have them call, and then if all else fails… I will have them talk to the principal. It’s probably him they’re going to talk to, not the counselor, as the principal is in charge of most of the stuff here.</p>

<p>@nith901… unfortunately, my teacher would be the least qualified to do such a thing, and my counselor and principal won’t either… although I could ask the vice principal to do that if nothing at all else works… he’s a really nice guy but doesn’t have much power, but i’m sure he could at least do that.</p>

<p>It’s a good thing I checked here first before calling!</p>