<p>I am a junior in a prep school and am having some trouble with teachers. I hold a 3.7 U/W GPA and try very hard in school. This year I have ran into trouble with he way some teachers grade. </p>
<p>I recently transfered to this school, so I am not quite use to it. I was not sure how to use the online function to check for my assignments over the weekend. Monday's class came and I was unable to turn in work because I did not know it was due. I tried to explain to them I was new and was not familiar with the online system, but they made clear about their no late work policy,thus, leaving me with terrible grades on two huge assignments. The zeros on these assignments will hold me back from an A for the semester.</p>
<p>This really upsets me, because it will really affect my chances getting into Harvard(Dream School) or a big Uni like that.</p>
<p>Have any of you experienced something like this?</p>
<p>Suck it up and get an A+ next quarter/semester so you can balance it out.</p>
<p>If you’re on the year-round system, you either have 2 more trimesters left or 3 quarters in the year left to up your grade plus any exams. If you’re on the semester system, then you have until December to up your grades.</p>
<p>And why is this suddenly a problem? Did you just start school? It’s October already. I’d think that you’d know how to use the school’s system by now.</p>
<p>Get used to it. You think when you get to a job and you miss a deadline you can just tell your boss…well, yeah I’m new. Part of being a student is taking responsibility for your work. You ****ed up. Now move on and let it go. It was your job to find out what the assignments are. It’s not the teachers job to seek you out.</p>
<p>No, this occurred at the beginning of the year. It has just been bugging me since. I have made excellent grades on the rest of the assignments but our grading system is 93% and up is an A, so a 0/100 on this assignment really killed my grade. I have just now gotten it back up to a B.</p>
<p>I am not really mad about it and it certainly doesn’t deter me from trying hard in school. It has just kind of finally set in that one dumb mistake can end up costing me my grade.</p>
<p>I really know there is nothing to do but roll with the punches. I am just trying to vent a little bit. </p>
<p>I have had instances like this before, for example last year I took a introduction to drawing class and I found out I was not that good at drawing. My teacher decided to grade with the best student being a A and so on down the line. That really doesn’t bother me except for the fact that over half the students were in Drawing II. Apparently they did not get enough students interested in drawing classes so they merged them. I ended up with a B for the final course even though I tried 100% and improved greatly. </p>
<p>After reading this, I sound like a whiny brat to put it delicately.</p>
<p>I will get off my soap box and continue on.</p>
<p>I can understand. I missed something in my english class but I take full responsibility. Didn’t blame a thing on the teacher. Worked my ass off and I’m now up to an 88. Should be an easy A from here.</p>
<p>In Latin II in 9th grade, I missed one homework assignment and I ended up with a D+ for the quarter. One homework assignment brought my percentage down 30%. Yeah. I didn’t think it was fair, but I moved on and worked my butt off to get an A the next quarter. And it was my fault. I missed on homework assignment, so I had to deal with the consequences. I didn’t think it’d drastically hurt my grade and yet it did so I had to suck it up.</p>
<p>If you’re really worthy of Harvard, you would not have run into this sort of trouble. Once your teachers told you that they use the internet for their classes, it’s completely your responsibility to know how to use those functions. How hard could it be to spend 1-2 minutes of your life to ask your teachers/classmates a question?</p>
<p>Not really sure… I was kind of perplexed by that one too. I think that homework was a huge chunk of our grade and that we didn’t have many homework assignments.</p>
<p>I think the one letter grade per day late sounds about right. Completely voiding an assignment that clearly had effort involved seems a bit harsh. Not only that, but I always felt that homework should be more about reinforcing the ideas and concepts that you learn in class rather than the deadlines themselves.</p>