<p>So on the last day when the grades were going to close, my history teacher puts in the assignments that she didn't grade on that day...and most of them after school. So when I got home and checked my grades, there were 2 missing assignments. One assignment was a group assignment that I CLEARLY SAW my friend put in the grading box. And the other assignment was online and my history teacher didn't clearly tell me how to turn it in online so I must've missed it, but it was the first 2 months of me at my new high school....</p>
<p>So my history grade went from an 88 to a 78, it should've been an 89 if those 2 assignments were in....But it was too late, I talked to her online that evening and she said she couldn't find both assignments and unless I show her online today the grades will have to close. Well I couldn't, but she was being "nice", so she bumped up my grades to an 80. I was going to talk to the principal, but my friend told me to not do that because the grades already closed for the 1st term, it's already too late.</p>
<p>So 8 whole points, kind of affected my GPA but I still came out with a 3.7 UW that year..
Isn't this bull?</p>
<p>If this just happened, you (and your parents) can see about fixing it. If this happened years ago, then it’s time to forget about it and move on.</p>
<p>Yea it’s been over 2 years, and there was no way in fixing it because I was a freshman for just 2 months. It’s BS that the teacher puts in assignments the day that grades end when the assignment was handed in a month ago.</p>
<p>It absolutely was BS when it happened, two years ago. It was very bad practice by your teacher, who deserved to be reprimanded, and who deserved to be put on notice that her job was in jeopardy and she would be terminated if she did not return students’ work, graded, in a timely manner.</p>
<p>But I’m afraid the time to address all of this was when it happened, and sadly, you and your family didn’t do that.</p>
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<p>You took the advice of a 14-year-old on this? That was a really unfortunate mistake. It could have been addressed at the time.</p>
<p>No, the person I talked to was 16, and I talked to my mom and she said that we can’t do anything about it. </p>
<p>My mom and I agreed that we didn’t want to ruin the relationship between me and my history teacher. My class is suppose to have her for history for only 2 years (it’s a tiny HS), but instead she is our history teacher for ALL 4 YEARS. So I’m glad I didn’t escalated it or she would’ve hated me.</p>
<p>No, it’s BS regardless. It’s the consequence of OP’s teacher’s screw up and of the unfortunate high school scheduling. </p>
<p>OP was given 2 bad options. OP wasn’t given a good choice. Neither of the two bad options should have happened. OP and his mother decided on the better of the two BS options.</p>
<p>OP came here to vent. People have given him some good advice (ie: yes it was bs, now move on). </p>
<p>@op
So yes, it was BS. I’m sorry that it happened. It’s ok to vent, but you should move on because there’s nothing that can be done now.</p>
<p>It could be worse. Last year, her junior year, my daughter took a dual enrollment pre-calculus course. She received an A both quarters of first semester and got an A on her first semester exam. Third quarter she had a high A and fourth quarter a low A. We received her final exam grade several weeks after the end of school. An F. Not just an F, but zero percent. It was a scan tron test (which is absurd in a pre-calculus class anyway), so the likelihood was high that she’d made an error on the scan tron sheet or it somehow didn’t get read properly. There was no way she missed literally every question on the test.</p>
<p>I tried multiple times to get in touch with the school to no avail. They have no one to talk to regarding exam grades during the summer and I was told it would have to be addressed at the beginning of the next year with her counselor. First thing at the beginning of this year I contacted her counselor and was told there was nothing they could do as the grades were all finalized. So her semester grade for that class was a C. That’s what went on her high school GPA and her course grade for the college class was a B (average of 1st semester A and second semester C). All because she screwed up on a scan tron test (though it’s possible it was a machine error) and her school has no policy for addressing that situation, nor do they automatically review zeroes on scan trons (how is this not standard?!).</p>
<p>Dear stressedoutmama – In your situation, I would be calmly (screaming in your head) pushing this as far up the chain that you need to push. You need to be the squeaky wheel BIG TIME. NOW. You need to write a letter to the superintendent if your own principal is not working on this. There is simply no way a child who has a solid A in the class for three quarters would get a ZERO on a math final. The statistical chance is, gosh, can’t even fathom. Mind you, having a scantron on a precalc test alone is just mind-boggling anyway.</p>
<p>But this grade could have significant implications for her future college plans, and you need to push this up the chain.</p>
<p>Oh for heavens sake. Your situation has been “done” for two years. Why are you even thinking about it, much less posting about it, now? The time you spent posting and reading responses could be better sent working on your current classes so your GPA is as high as possible going forward. Don’t be one of those people who’s always thinking of what might have been–it’s a terrible way to live your life.</p>