My question involves education law in the State of: California
For the past year our school has been having the whole senior class participate in a project. Even from the start the project has just fallen apart. The initial teacher in charge of it has left and its been run by the counselor views it at a nuisance. Anyways after almost a year of work and a 12 page paper on avaerage per student the papers have been graded and the average grade of the student was a 50% which pulled so many kids grades down (put in the english category) and some kids even failed the class because of this. I discussed with the teacher that was in charge of the project and she told me she didnt want to deal with it and told me if I had an issue with it I should send a letter to the administration/board.
Email I sent to the board (censored)
.....I was required to prepare and present a senior project. Over the last few months, my peers and I have been working diligently on our projects. Yesterday, we received our final grade. I am not alone in being extremely unsatisfied with our grades, and feel that the grades are not representative of the work and effort put forth. I performed random sampling survey with exactly 30% of the senior class of 2015. Based off the information I have received the average score of the xx students was a 52.xxx%. I can only speak for my own experience, but I feel that something is amiss with the grading process for this project. After incorporating suggestions and changes into the final draft, I received a grade 10 percent lower than my draft grade. I am not alone in this rather unfair and what I would take as subjective grading. My peers have offered concerns about the grading difficulty of this project, but I feel that I need to take a risk and say something. I do hope that this issue can be resolved or more clearly explained. I appreciate any feedback and thank you for your time and concern.
What the School Director Responded with,
I will forward your message to the Board at the January xxx, 2015 meeting. For your information, the Board does not address items dealing with teacher grades as by State law only the teacher can change a grade. There are 2 instances where an administrator is permitted to change a teachers grade (not a Board member): a case where there has been a miscalculation (mathematical error in calculating the grade) or fraud (a teacher purposely grading a student for reasons other than academic achievement- because a student has done the teacher a favor therefore the teacher gives a high grade). Neither of these criteria apply in your case. The Board cannot/will not get involved in grading matters.
Regarding your grade, please realize that the entire teaching/administrative staff was involved in the grading of senior projects. Various administrators/teachers were organized as committees and we all were issued assignments to read and grade various senior projects. We were to use 2 rubrics to grade the projects. This was done individually over Christmas Vacation and then we came together as a committee to collaborate and reach consensus on a grade for each project assigned to the committee on January 5, 2015. Thus, the grading did not reflect the grade of one individual but rather the consensus of the committee. The committee to which I was assigned did not read your senior project but I do know that all committees operated by the same set of instructions.
I talked to him and he basically said its done and has already been graded. Is there anything I can use to get a regrade of the projects or based off state law is this all said and done.
Thanks
For the past year our school has been having the whole senior class participate in a project. Even from the start the project has just fallen apart. The initial teacher in charge of it has left and its been run by the counselor views it at a nuisance. Anyways after almost a year of work and a 12 page paper on avaerage per student the papers have been graded and the average grade of the student was a 50% which pulled so many kids grades down (put in the english category) and some kids even failed the class because of this. I discussed with the teacher that was in charge of the project and she told me she didnt want to deal with it and told me if I had an issue with it I should send a letter to the administration/board.
Email I sent to the board (censored)
.....I was required to prepare and present a senior project. Over the last few months, my peers and I have been working diligently on our projects. Yesterday, we received our final grade. I am not alone in being extremely unsatisfied with our grades, and feel that the grades are not representative of the work and effort put forth. I performed random sampling survey with exactly 30% of the senior class of 2015. Based off the information I have received the average score of the xx students was a 52.xxx%. I can only speak for my own experience, but I feel that something is amiss with the grading process for this project. After incorporating suggestions and changes into the final draft, I received a grade 10 percent lower than my draft grade. I am not alone in this rather unfair and what I would take as subjective grading. My peers have offered concerns about the grading difficulty of this project, but I feel that I need to take a risk and say something. I do hope that this issue can be resolved or more clearly explained. I appreciate any feedback and thank you for your time and concern.
What the School Director Responded with,
I will forward your message to the Board at the January xxx, 2015 meeting. For your information, the Board does not address items dealing with teacher grades as by State law only the teacher can change a grade. There are 2 instances where an administrator is permitted to change a teachers grade (not a Board member): a case where there has been a miscalculation (mathematical error in calculating the grade) or fraud (a teacher purposely grading a student for reasons other than academic achievement- because a student has done the teacher a favor therefore the teacher gives a high grade). Neither of these criteria apply in your case. The Board cannot/will not get involved in grading matters.
Regarding your grade, please realize that the entire teaching/administrative staff was involved in the grading of senior projects. Various administrators/teachers were organized as committees and we all were issued assignments to read and grade various senior projects. We were to use 2 rubrics to grade the projects. This was done individually over Christmas Vacation and then we came together as a committee to collaborate and reach consensus on a grade for each project assigned to the committee on January 5, 2015. Thus, the grading did not reflect the grade of one individual but rather the consensus of the committee. The committee to which I was assigned did not read your senior project but I do know that all committees operated by the same set of instructions.
I talked to him and he basically said its done and has already been graded. Is there anything I can use to get a regrade of the projects or based off state law is this all said and done.
Thanks
Grades and Credits: Senior Class Grade Average on the "Senior Project" is ~50%
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