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Post: Administrators changing seniors grades!
Posted by BMoreTeacher on 5/15/08
This is my fifth year teaching high school - and this
happens every year. Administrators at my school will change
a seniors' failing grades into passing ones - with little
or no input from the teacher so that they can graduate. It
makes many of us feel like there is no real 'reason' to
even teach! I have a student who has had my class for two years in a
row - he failed both times (miserably), only showed up
about 40% of the time, and never even attempted to make up
any work. Now, I have been asked to give him a 'project' to
help him recoup his grade (pass) - however I have been
informed that he will be graduating anyway whether or not
he completes this project. They just want to give him
*something* to do. I am livid. This happens year after year - with student
after student. I teach in an inner-city school with a
terrible graduation rate - so we are constantly under
pressure to graduate students - but I believe it is very
immoral to be simply 'giving' students grades they haven't
earned. Am I crazy? Am I alone? Has any one else had to deal with
this?
Posts on this thread, including this one
Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by BMoreTeacher.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by Rodeo.
Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley .
Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley .
Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by LbP.
Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by What????.
Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by Rodeo.
Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP.
Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by L. Swilley .
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by Sara.
Re: NCLB, 5/17/08, by to Rodeo.
Re: Further on this interesting case / completely agree, 5/17/08, by Sara.
Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by ACP.
Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/17/08, by I agree.
Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by To ACP.
Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by BMorePeachy.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by think of the workplace.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by high school English teacher.
Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by L. Swilley .
Re: A question - tracking students early on , 5/18/08, by BTrack.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by BMoreTeacher .
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/19/08, by Catsister.
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