Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Grade Changer You are a new 3rd grade teacher and it is the end of the marking period. You are staying after school hours to do some last minute grading and inputting grades into the system. A parent enters your room and demands to speak to you about their child's recent test grade of a "c". The parent claims that this test score will lower their child's current grade standing of an "A" to a "B" and this is unacceptable. After a long conversation that parent requests that you change their child's grade. What would you do in this situation? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I would not speak with a parent that had not made a scheduled conference, and I would include an administrator at the scheduled conference. I would listen to the reasoning the parent gave for changing a grade, and then explain to the parent your grading process while supplying their student's work and how/why they earned the test grade of c-. I would also explain to the parent why it would be detrimental to change a student's grade simply because of a parent's request.