Friday, January 21, 2011

A Grade Problem

It's 5:30. You have just arrived home from an activity with your family, and school is still on your mind. You know that you have a terrible grade in two of your classes, one in particular, and you decide to take a quick look at your grades to see how they were effected (I used a commonly confused word, by the way!). You slowly make your way to your computer, turn it on, and in the few minutes that it takes to load, you start feeling the dread come weighing on your shoulders. In all your life, you have always had straight A's, and even though it's just the beginning of the term, you are unsure of whether you can earn enough extra credit throughout the term to boost the grade from what could be a C-, to an A.
As you get onto the district website, click on the 'A+' sign, and log in, you are almost too afraid to click the 'Student Summary' icon, because the truth of your situation scares you just a small amount. Finally, wincing, you click down on your computer mouse, and what do you see? Nothing. That's right; absolutely nothing. Sure, there is your schedule, and your Choir and English sections have grades, but everything else is blank. In P.E., it says that you are missing an assignment, due today, that you haven't even heard of and know that you never were assigned, and in the two classes whose grades matter most, there is no information showing what your grades are.
You lay back in your seat, aghast that your teachers still have not updated your student summary. Don't they realize that your knowlege of these grades is almost more important than their own knowlege? Now you are starting to get furious, and wish to email the teachers about it, but then decide not to, because you know that there's a good chance that could only make things worse for you. So you resolve to write on the Honor's English blog about your troubles, and hope that others may relate to you. Why can I not have the choice to see my grades?

-Aurora

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