Re: NY State Physics Regents exams

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:42:03 -0700 Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>
writes:
> Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
>
> *** In New York State the final grades are given by the teacher
>  before students sit for their regents exams. If the regents
>  exam score is much higher, or lower, the teacher may raise
>  or lower the student's grade with permission.


Bernard Cleyet asks...
Pray tell, whose permission?

*** Permission to change a student's grade, after it has been
submitted by a teacher, varies greatly from time to time and
from school to school.

We have all heard of schools where a principal takes it upon
himself to change a student grade when the teacher refuses to do so.
However, this is rare. Sometimes it is the teacher himself
who obtains access to the school records and changes the grade.
It would be interesting to poll the members of this list-serve
and ask them whose permission is required for them to change
a student grade in their school.

In my school, it was the department chairman or the principal who
had to be consulted before a teacher could change a grade.
But the teacher himself made the final decision.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where teachers NEVER make a mistake when compiling
a student's final grade ..... Well ....... Hardly ever!)_