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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Actually, it does sound like they "harassed" the teacher when you received a low grade. They may have only done it once, but it looked like it happened. Harass is your word rather than mine, but what you describe really isn't all that normal.
If you made all As on your other papers, it really probably wasn't worth all that. What did you learn from her doing that? That you might sometimes call momma to deal with injustice? What about the times when your mom has no influence?
I have no idea what your English teacher was like, and I'll even accept that she/he was clearly in the wrong. But often the fights that seem like they need fighting really don't, and that an even better lesson may be learned by people not getting what they want.
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The point I was trying to make was, that I had been an "A/B" student before, and to suddenly receive a D, and no sufficient explanation from the teacher as to why this was the grade I received. When I explained to my mom what happened, she met with the teacher, got the same response and THEN went to the principal. For me and my mom, it was a fight that needed to be fought because this grade could have kept me from going to high school on time. Apparently there were other "issues" involved with this particular teacher regarding certain students.
If I did poorly on the paper, I would have accepted that and moved on. But to be consistently told that one is a decent writer (for middle school) and never having received a D in any English class before, and doing well in the class until then, and having a teacher tell me "well, that's the grade I am giving you, so just take it and sit down," that was a bit of a confidence breaker for me.
Apparently, I didn't communicate that well enough, so I apologize for the mix up.
And yes, those were the only two times my parents intervened. And I did learn to speak up for myself from that experience.