So, your daughter is sick for a week with the flu, and she is handed a test the day she gets back and is told to take it???? WTH? I know that in my kids’ Catholic school, they are allowed time back from an illness before they are required to make up any tests (my 11 y.o. daughter just had this situation when she was sick last month for a couple of days).
Am I missing something here or is it unreasonable to allow a kid to have little catch up time before testing them on material they don’t know?
And why should a kid just ‘suck it up’ when she hasn’t had time to review the material—it’s not like she is a slacker who just isn’t doing the work.
BTW, my 11 y.o. girl is quite good at math too—she doesn’t get it from me though...her dad is an engineer. She knows who to go to for math and science and who to go to when she needs language arts or social studies help (I’m the history buff in the house, and I got straight A’s in English and Spelling in school).
Fight the mark. Ask for a makeup test or for the 10 points back whichever you think your daughter will do best.
I would bet that it is personal, but don’t say anything to the teacher or the administrator about this, just keep it to yourself and use this knowledge to help guide you in what to do.
If the teacher won’t do either, talk to the administrator and explain her position. Explain that you requested a makeup mark, and explain why this is so important (getting tracked to higher math), exactly as you have here.
The bonus marks were 5 percent just for knowing the names of his kids? That’s rather silly. Her mark will bump up to about 89 or so.
I had one French teacher who was pulling games with her exams. She would drop a student down so that the student had to do the test, and show up at the top of the class, when the student did well on her exam, and her class average would be higher.
It took a full semester before everything got worked out. In the end, I got the mark I earned on my final exam (which was about 5 percent lower), than I had earned in the class, but it was about 10 points higher than what I had received from my teacher.