<p>northstarmom - i tried emailing her but she won’t budge. i talked to my guidance counselor but my teacher convinced my gc that the point difference won’t change my final grade because my grade average or whatever says i’d have a C anyway. The thing is, we don’t use grade averages to calculate final grades, but a weird point system - and my teacher doesn’t understand that. With the latter system, I could have gotten a D on the final and still have my B. But there were errors on the scantron (which I showed her) that ended up having me failing the scantron. After I showed her, she said she still wouldn’t change my grade and then went as far as to insinuate that I changed my answers after I got my scantron back EVEN THOUGH her and I were the only two people in the room, she was always within 10 feet of me, and there was no possible way for me to change anything without her noticing. </p>
<p>Now, she’s gone on vacation and my gc won’t email me back. even so, it’s my word against hers, and clearly she has a bigger voice since she’s the teacher. I just don’t know why anyone would do that to a student.</p>
<p>yeah my mom called my counselor sometime last week. she just said that the teacher said that my year end grade wouldn’t change and left it at that. my mom didn’t know what to say, but then I wrote out a long, detailed email to my counselor explaining all the calculations and how the addition of the points WOULD change my grade. I told her all I want to do is see my scantron again with the gc and show her exactly what happened. I have no history of cheating, and they have no reason to doubt me. I rarely get B’s, so this one freak incident bringing me down to a C should probably raise more eyebrows than the fact that I found an error in my teacher’s methods. The teacher also claims that she looked over the scantron for errors after she graded them and didn’t see the ones I pointed out then. #1 - that’s probably not even true; why would a teacher look over 70+ scantrons for little errors and #2 - even if she did, isn’t it possible that she made a little human error of her own and missed these mistakes? I don’t know, this is all so ridiculous. </p>
<p>I tried going down to the school myself but my counselor isn’t in. They’ve all left for vacation, but I know I’m right. And even if I’m not, I think I deserve their time to at least discuss the matter and find out exactly why I’m not right.</p>
<p>Your mother needs to talk to the principal. I went all the way to the school board to get S’s grade changed. The tip is to be persistent while staying pleasant and having the facts in hand.</p>
<p>It may be that the princ. will be more willing to get involved (and colleges may be more prone to understand your situation) if the ACLU gets reinvolved. This sounds like a situation in which you were punished, receiving a failing grade for work that merited a passing grade, for Constitutionally protected political speech (sitting during the flag salute.) Your AP and SAT grades would certainly support the idea that you knew the material, and any goofball can see that failing an excellent student for writing tests in blue ink, for not leaving a sufficient number of spaces, etc. might possibly be related to that student’s assertion of First Amendment rights over the teacher’s objections. </p>
<p>I do not think it is attention seeking behavior when a citizen uses every means at his disposal to vindicate basic rights. Whether or not people agree with you about sitting for the flag salute is beside the point. The right you asserted is not trivial. A public school allowing a teacher to punish you for asserting that right is not trivial. I would argue that you should get this corrected not just so you’ll have a better looking transcript, but because it’s the right thing to do.</p>
This is even stranger than another similar post I read. I know this is a massive bump, but I know that your principal has the power to correct your grade. Did he/she OP?</p>
<p>Also, what kind of school has a 70.6 as an F?</p>
<p>^He doesn’t have to stand for the pledge if he doesn’t want to, a la the constitution. I had a teacher who was in it for me. It sucks so much. You have no idea how it is until you actually go through it. Luckily it was a non college prep course so it won’t affect my transcript too much. I really feel for this kid. It’s him against the world, literally. No matter how right you are, a some schools administratives and teachers are just conservative jerks.</p>