Letter of Explanation for Bad Grades

Modadunn
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:56:43 +0000

In fairness… I don’t think the school has requested the letter. I thnk her grades have been such in the past that this feels like a true blemish. And truth is, even if it was a difficult lesson to learn (if she has nothing official to say the teacher gave her permission to miss), a final grade of a C isn’t going to get an offer of admission rescinded for a host of reasons. I feel for her. But if there are other teachers who granted this permission and feel the way she approached it was acceptable (and they aren’t also substitute teachers), they too could “stick up for her” with the counselor/administration. Even IF she didn’t go through every step perfectly, as a parent I would be pretty ticked that you failed my kid without any notice when you knew she was out of town. (all of the kids in the class would surely know even if you didn’t). Of course, my question is what was the grade at her departure? Was it already close to failing? Or was it a C and as it turned out, there were still way too many outstanding points to give her a pass on the rest of the year. Hard to believe if other seniors were required to do work that anyone would earn a pass without making up the work. But then again, there’s a whole lot about certain school rules that boggle my mind.