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CABANN · 02-19-2003, 01:32 PM

My 12 year old son came home from school yesterday with his third quarter progress report for seventh grade. His last report card was straight A's (the first time ever, he was so proud of himself). He is working so hard to keep his grades up and is always checking his work or having hubby and I check it or test him. He was a struggling student up until 4th or 5th grade and now he has done a total turn around.

Well anyways, he was almost in tears when he had shown me the progress report. He received an A in every subject except for History. In that class he was given a C+. As I was looking at the printout for that class I noticed that he did very well on the tests and assignments. The one thing that wasn't scored high was a Poster that was a group project. He was paired off with two other kids. DS said he and another boy did their parts, but the third child didn't complete his area which brought the score down to 65 points out of 120. That in turn brought sons grade down. He was heart broken because he had worked so hard.

He was so upset that he wanted me to take privlages away from him, such as wrestling or video games. I told him that I don't think it was his fault that his grade dropped and all the other scores for this class were pretty good, so I don't need to punish him(he was already doing that).

I wanted to talk to the teacher about this policy of grouping the kids up for projects, and the grading standards that goes along with it. But my son asked me not to. He is going to ask the teacher for extra credit to bring his grade up and explain to him why it dropped so far.

I sure hope this works out for DS, he was so upset.

02-19-2003, 01:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
CABANN Stressed out mom Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: In the ZOO Posts: 1,120 iTrader: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	This just isn't fair. My 12 year old son came home from school yesterday with his third quarter progress report for seventh grade. His last report card was straight A's (the first time ever, he was so proud of himself). He is working so hard to keep his grades up and is always checking his work or having hubby and I check it or test him. He was a struggling student up until 4th or 5th grade and now he has done a total turn around. Well anyways, he was almost in tears when he had shown me the progress report. He received an A in every subject except for History. In that class he was given a C+. As I was looking at the printout for that class I noticed that he did very well on the tests and assignments. The one thing that wasn't scored high was a Poster that was a group project. He was paired off with two other kids. DS said he and another boy did their parts, but the third child didn't complete his area which brought the score down to 65 points out of 120. That in turn brought sons grade down. He was heart broken because he had worked so hard. He was so upset that he wanted me to take privlages away from him, such as wrestling or video games. I told him that I don't think it was his fault that his grade dropped and all the other scores for this class were pretty good, so I don't need to punish him(he was already doing that). I wanted to talk to the teacher about this policy of grouping the kids up for projects, and the grading standards that goes along with it. But my son asked me not to. He is going to ask the teacher for extra credit to bring his grade up and explain to him why it dropped so far. I sure hope this works out for DS, he was so upset.