<p>Give the math teacher a day or 2 to make the change and for the change to be recorded and updated in your record. Remember all she is doing is putting in the change and some one else is actually processing it,</p>
<p>Contact the person responsible for distributing the report cards to find out when you can expect to receive your updated report card.</p>
<p>Yeah, but you can see the changes they make in the grade book right as they make them. You don't have to go through an outside person at our school who processes the grades. </p>
<p>She e-mailed me two weeks ago and said she'd be in this week to change it. There's still no change. Should I e-mail her? Also, there's a small assignment I know I handed in marked as a zero. Should I ask her about that as well?</p>
<p>What should I say to my guidance counselor? I really need to get my class rank back to where it was or I'm screwed.</p>
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<p>Talk to a lawyer. Students have rights, regardless of whether they're minors or not.</p>
<p>No, don't get a lawyer. This isn't the time yet. I realize the grades in the online gradebook show right away, but in my experience, the official grades aren't changed through that. There's a form that needs to be filed by the teacher called a grade change form - it goes to records or guidance, and it sometimes takes a couple weeks to get officially changed. Then it sometimes takes some time for you to get a new printout. Just get hold of your math teacher in about a week, remind him of your conversation, and make sure he changed the grade.</p>
<p>I'm just kidding. Geez :)</p>
<p>Stop being a whiny passive little $#%*@ who juxtaposes academic success with happiness and well being. We're are spoiled in the West, while you're pulling your hair out over fatuous math assignments and grades, children in Nairobi are eating out of a garbage can.</p>
<p>I'm not claiming the moral highground here, but I think I can enlighten you with my somewhat broader perspective.</p>
<p>Take action, as much as your sob little story (oh your little trip to France ruined your life oh how sad) brings a tear to my eye, Suck It UP!</p>
<p>If you want a real story of suffering and overcoming adversity read this article about Robert Cheruiyot, 2 time Boston Marathon Champ.</p>
<p>P.S. - Don't berate me, that is just the way it is. Feel free to pick apart any grammatical errors.</p>
<p>Get some perspective, corroborator. You're being an insensitive jerk. Just because other people have it worse doesn't mean that this isn't important, or important to the OP. She isn't in any way whining or being passive, she's trying to find a solution to a tricky academic problem. Be helpful or get lost.</p>
<p>Sorry Corroborator, I was just trying to find a solution to this. I signed up for the French trip a year ago and there was no way I could have known then that my History class would end up so far behind. Had I known I never would have gone. </p>
<p>It's not just the French trip either. I've experienced other stressful problems this year that have affected my academic performance. I'm just looking for help from people who know more about how to handle stuff like this than I do.</p>
<p>Go to your counselor and get this straightened out, which I think that is the general consensus of the 3 or 4 people who have posted on here. There's really nothing to it, just keep making phone calls and writing e-mails/letters. How did the other French students do in that history class? I don't see them posting on here.</p>
<p>I agree with the consensus here of staying in touch with your math teacher and getting to your GC or vice-princ. asap. And I actually think that Corroborator may be touching on one good point which is, what happened to the other students who went on the trip to France? It might make sense for you to be in touch with them as it is possible that some of them are in a similar situation and that they or their parents might already be working on a solution with the teachers in question or school administrators. Particularly if they have parents who are amenable to being involved and helpful, it might be good for you to work together toward a solution that benefits all of the students involved. (Also, if any of those students has already acheived some measure of success in dealing with the situation, say with a different guidance counselor or teacher, it would be great for you to know about.)</p>
<p>Haha, you're dumb</p>
<p>Few questions before I can really give an opinion... </p>
<p>Did your History class move at that pace the entire year?
Did you continue working at your part time job and/or participating in your extra activities?
And, how'd your meeting go with your guidance couselor?</p>
<p>My friend misses school all the time doing science stuff. He has been to the International Science Fair 3 years in a row and will most likely return next year. He misses a week of school right there alone. He also does a lot of lab work outside of school, but he still keeps up with his classes for the most part.</p>
<p>I'll wait for answers before I give my opinion...</p>
<p>The class did move at a pretty slow pace all year; however, I signed up and paid for the trip (like everyone else) the year before we took the class. There was no way we could have known the class would be moving that slow.</p>
<p>I'm extremely involved in theater at my school, and I had a part-time job all year, but I wasn't able to be involved in the Big Time Consuming Spring Musical because of the French trip, so I didn't have any extrecurriculars going on. Also, I had quit my job around March because I was getting paid peanuts and it just seemed pointless. I was devoting almost evey spare moment I had to getting this stuff done. I gave up my lunch hour every day for two weeks so I could sit in the media center and work on my homework. This is not an exaggeration, and this is coming from someone who has juggled jobs with extracurriculars and homework without much of a problem before.</p>
<p>Yeah, I called my Guidance Counselor the day I posted this but the soonest I could get in was the 19th. That was the VERY soonest. I hate my school. But anyway, she just told me to remind her and she'll include a paragraph in her counselor recommendations explaining why my grades took a nosedive. I think that's all I'll get out of my school. </p>
<p>Anyway, only 3 kids who went on the French trip suffered huge grade falls and it was those who took AP History. That was the killer. It was the first year the school offered the course and the teacher didn't really know what a proper pace to go at was. But three kids is not enough to get the school to change anything, it's a pretty stubborn faculty and administration.</p>
<p>The only thing I can suggest then is to remember this the next time you go on some sort of trip and plan ahead. By that, I mean maybe take some of your homework with you and do it then? Or even do some self-studying to try staying current.</p>
<p>My friend is lucky the school allows him to make up his work. He takes a week after school is over and takes his finals then. His trip is typically within the last 2 weeks of school so he can't get it all done right before finals. They give him some leeway.</p>
<p>well if you know if you were going to miss so much work, why did you even want to go vacation in France for two weeks? Seems pretty lame to me</p>
<p>You guys need to learn to read the whole thread before responding - she's already addressed these issues.</p>
<p>She tried to get all her work ahead, the teachers wouldn't give it, which she couldn't have known a year ahead...etc. etc.</p>
<p>Don't say anything negative because DespSeekPhd is the p.c. police.</p>
<p>I'm sorry... and I know this is not a FUN thing to go through, but it's not the end of the world. Making overdramatic claims like "my future is ruined" because of a trip to France is really not the truth -- take a moment to realize that. </p>
<p>One-- once I had to miss a week of school for a family thing and it was a month or so before APs. Like you, it was my junior year and I was taking AP US. I approached my teacher and asked him for the work, and he just laughed at me and said, "it's American History-- learn it." So what did I do? I got an exam review book and read the chapters on my own free will. I got home having a solid understanding of the facts and material and was able to spend minimal time completing assignments.</p>
<p>Two -- if all of this is going on in your life, you should be telling someone. You don't have to perfectly tackle the world on your own. People care about you and want what's best for you and will be there to listen to you and help you as best as they can. But now it's like you're desperately searching for excuses to explain why you didn't perform perfectly. Take some responsibility -- it's not everyone else's fault, and quite honestly, no one is trying to sabotage you. Explain to your guidance counselor what's going on in your life, and when you're starting your story, try and not get angry about two teachers and difficult assignments. Let them know that there is something serious going on in your life. It may not be the wisest thing for YOU to personally affix a letter with your college applications explaining everything (chances are it'll look sort of bad and tacky), but it's something your counselor very easily could. Try and get things squared away with your counselor-- make sure he or she knows where you're coming from and take some advice from them to better your situation (not just fix the past two semesters) because that will ensure that your senior year which WILL be stressful and from the looks of it, learning how to better handle high-stress situations will be beneficial to you, because other than the trip, it doesn't seem like stressful situations will leave your life.</p>
<p>Three-- Relax. Talk to your teachers. It takes time for them to change a grade because it IS summer. Your math teacher has a life and a family, and while that grade is your #1 priority, it's far from being hers. It WILL happen-- and seeing as how a formal grade has been sent home, your teacher probably has to go through a more time consuming official process to change it.</p>
<p>Good luck, but please do relax.</p>
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You guys need to learn to read the whole thread before responding - she's already addressed these issues.
sorry, I have a life</p>
<p>I will pray for you, friend.</p>