<p>you feel that a teacher is grading you unfairly? Participation shouldnt weigh more than 10% but somehow it goes above that mark...and not only do I always participate blah blah, i still get a 90? I feel like she is playing favorites..what do i do? Her open ended question also dont seem fairly graded</p>
<p>This is english btw</p>
<p>English is a pretty subjective subject to grade. It’s hard to argue that she isn’t grading fairly. Not much you can do besides just trying reallllly hard on stuff that CAN be graded fairly (tests that are multiple choice!) and spending some extra time on essays…making them so good she just can’t give you a bad grade because you did everything on the rubric. And get on her good side. Even if you’re not her favorite, as long as you’re nice to her and she has no problem with you, she’ll give you a fair grade. </p>
<p>Participation points are kinda icky though. Sometimes teachers grade on how good your contribution is. Like…if the things you contribute are just crazy random things, you can participate a lot but won’t get many points.</p>
<p>Oh my goodness, I have the most unfair english teacher too. She grades everyone on how they did on their very first essay, I’m pretty sure she hasn’t read one of mine since. My first essay sucked since I didn’t read Beowulf and I got an 86 so now I’ve never been able to go above 90 no matter how much better I do. I’m always in the 84 - 90 range. Blah. English is an annoying class when you have an annoying teacher.</p>
<p>^ Ask her if she can look it over again. If she refuses, talk to guidance or a higher office. Have them tell her to look over it again.</p>
<p>Me too…</p>
<p>heh. i got stuck in this situation in freshman year. i did some serious sucking-up. for christmas, i bought my english teacher this nice humingbird glass thing that was like 20 bucks. she thought it was gorgeous. i got an A both semesters. >_></p>
<p>lmao. we tried. well, i didn’t, cuz i didn’t really need to. but half our class signed a petition to get her fired cuz she was super unorganized and stuff. it didn’t work, our principal tried to keep it quiet, but obviously the whole school knew and she cried for a week. i didn’t really feel bad for her, but it was annoying how all the students who signed the petition kept getting called down to the principal’s office…</p>
<p>anyhow, the 20 bucks was worth it. that woman is nutty. some student got like 89% first semester and she wouldn’t bump the grade to an A (even though she did for other students). obvious favoritism. but yes, i could’ve saved 20 bucks. not on ap and sat fees, but on 20 4-piece chicken mcnuggets from mickey d’s. rawrrrr that’s 80 of those delicious pieces of tender, white-chicken meat. -sigh- o well.</p>
<p>"Oh my goodness, I have the most unfair english teacher too. She grades everyone on how they did on their very first essay, I’m pretty sure she hasn’t read one of mine since. My first essay sucked since I didn’t read Beowulf and I got an 86 so now I’ve never been able to go above 90 no matter how much better I do. I’m always in the 84 - 90 range. Blah. English is an annoying class when you have an annoying teacher. "</p>
<p>My English teacher assigns us different numbers/letters for each essay we turn in to put in place of our name so she doesn’t accidentally play favorites :)</p>
<p>^that’s good. I’m in the same position as OP. You participate and the kid next to you just texts/sleeps and gets higher participation grades than you. The grade I’m getting in that class will actually determine my class rank because we’re all that close. It really does suck having such an unfair teacher. Ask her for extra credit maybe? Be nice to her, offer to help her get organized. I’ve never been a suck-up, but if there’s one thing I can take away from high school, it is to kiss as much butt as possible because that, over substance, can get you anywhere.</p>
<p>EDIT: lol, that was somewhat bitter, sorry.</p>
<p>^^^exactly, lol i’ll take that advice. you see, im not disruptive and i fit that whole “honors student” criteria but yet the kids she obviously <3s magically get higher grades. and to #2 i write exactly what she tells us conflict x is about, but i get points off. And we haven’t had a multiple choice test ever, except the midterm.</p>