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To: sbMKE
If I'm projecting a know-it-all attitude it's because for three years I keep finding simple mistakes they've made, including averaging tests and final grades.

I am teaching them to live with integrity and search for self satisfaction.

The one in question definitely self motivates which is why it's so hard on her that this happened.

To bad if the teachers are turned off, they need to do there job despite me if I'm the issue, they're my daughters grades.

18 posted on 11/18/2011 5:17:56 AM PST by MacMattico
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To: MacMattico

What you are teaching them is that you care more about the grade than your child. Who goes around checking averages for thei children’s grades? Is there so little going on in your life that you have to live through your children? It seems to me that threatening to go to the school board over a .1% difference ( what you call rounding) is a waste of the school board’s time and effort. You mention that it is math and science that she is getting lower grades in, have you ever considered that she just is not doing the work the way the teacher has asked for it to be done? I still remember a college thermodynamics class where the prof insisted that you fold the paper a certain way, put your name in the upper right hand corner, and an answer column down the left margin. If you did not do it that way you got ZERO for the assignment (even if it was the final exam). I only had to screw that up on one quiz before I became compliant....lesson learned


26 posted on 11/18/2011 5:56:08 AM PST by Nifster
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