Cjw_55106
Footballguy
For a quick background, my daughter is a junior in high school and depending upon the trimester, is ranked somewhere in the top 5 of her class and has a GPA over 4, Is in the national honor Society, the link crew club, student council and pitches for the softball team. None of this is a credit to me, it’s just the kind of student she has always been.
She is currently taking a college level Spanish class and recently received a 5/10 with a comment from the teacher that this work is at a MUCH higher level than the last daily work she handed in and questioned, how much of this is actually your Spanish? I don’t like to jump to conclusions so I asked my daughter what’s the deal? She said the daily work is basically pass/fail. It takes her about 10 minutes. This summative assignment she said took her an hour and in her mind, would not be at all surprised if it was a much higher level of work being done. She responded as such to the teacher and the teacher finally did change it to a 10/10 with a comment that she still thinks this is at a much higher level than a third level Spanish student.
At some point during the ordeal, my daughter did start crying, which isn’t surprising to me, but still pisses me off. My first inclination is to let it go and move on. But every time I think about it, it pisses me off because to me, if she cheated she should’ve been given a 0/10. I think the teacher didn’t have the balls to do that so I think she thought if she gave a 5/10 it would send some sort of message. My feelings are, if you’re going to accuse a student of cheating, give them a zero and between the teacher, the student, the parents and a counselor or principal, we should talk about the situation.
Of course this is open to everyone, but I would love to hear the opinion of someone like @Ilov80s or other educators on the board as to their opinion on what parents should do.
tldr; daughter accused of cheating and I’m pissed.
She is currently taking a college level Spanish class and recently received a 5/10 with a comment from the teacher that this work is at a MUCH higher level than the last daily work she handed in and questioned, how much of this is actually your Spanish? I don’t like to jump to conclusions so I asked my daughter what’s the deal? She said the daily work is basically pass/fail. It takes her about 10 minutes. This summative assignment she said took her an hour and in her mind, would not be at all surprised if it was a much higher level of work being done. She responded as such to the teacher and the teacher finally did change it to a 10/10 with a comment that she still thinks this is at a much higher level than a third level Spanish student.
At some point during the ordeal, my daughter did start crying, which isn’t surprising to me, but still pisses me off. My first inclination is to let it go and move on. But every time I think about it, it pisses me off because to me, if she cheated she should’ve been given a 0/10. I think the teacher didn’t have the balls to do that so I think she thought if she gave a 5/10 it would send some sort of message. My feelings are, if you’re going to accuse a student of cheating, give them a zero and between the teacher, the student, the parents and a counselor or principal, we should talk about the situation.
Of course this is open to everyone, but I would love to hear the opinion of someone like @Ilov80s or other educators on the board as to their opinion on what parents should do.
tldr; daughter accused of cheating and I’m pissed.