Son's Maths teacher openly discussed his exam results with the classroom

probably nothing you can do about it, theres no point in making the school make an inquiry about the teacher as it just wastes their time.


But you should help him with his maths and see if you can get him back into the group that way. Once he's gone down a group, the school won't do much to put him back up, you'll have to push for it.

I say this because it happened to me at school, and i've had to sit a foundation year at uni to play catch up :p
 
I suspect your son is probably upset because he didn't achieve the grade he was hoping for, rather than the teacher telling the class his grade? And maybe he's just trying to cover it by getting angry at the teacher?

EDIT: Either way, people would have found out his grade eventually, by virtue of which class he was in!
 
If you don't make the cut, you don't make the cut. Simple as that, and IMHO is a good real life lesson. Sure, the teacher discussing the grades might be a tad bit annoying, but he should man up, go for it and get the grade anyway.
 
mysticsniper said:
I would be annoyed at the teacher, if she singled your son, and made him feel about 2 inches tall. Then openly talked about your son and his grades, to other students behind his back. :(
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Or more likley one of his sons fromer clas matesd went

"why isn't X here any more miss"

"he only got a 3 to be in this class you need a 2 or higher".


Hell everyone knew your results anyway by what set you were in.

expected to get A or B set 1
C set 2
lower than a C set 3
You're basically there as day care before the prison service can take you off the schools hands set 4.
 
At my High School they did all the stupid not giving results publicly thing. It was ridiculous. It would take ages for the teach to individually give each person their result, and then of-course because we all had nothing to hide from each other we'd just shout across the classroom "What did you get Ed?", "90 Tom. You?", "80 mate".

At Uni they try to do it too - but fortunately most of the lecturers have realised that we're all happy with them just being read out.


Was it a proper external exam anyways (surely they're done in grades?!) or just a meaningless internal test?
 
Hmm... My school follow a weird stereotype or something, because next year Everyone in my top set class is going to be Asian, maybe 1 person from a different ethnicity but I can guarantee at least %90 of my class will be Asian.
 
doopydug said:
He got a "1" all the way up to the exam day and was in the top 4 or 5 in the class - all of his other results were very good indeed. It seems the result was a freak one but I am not encouraging his victim complex, I hope. I have already pointed out how it will look and how I don't think it is the right thing to do.
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So he got a 3 (a general grade) rather than the 1 (credit grade) he had been predicted? Has he appealed based on his prelim results and/or previous work he has done in class. I've got to admit that I'm not entirely up to date on Standard Grades but it used to be the case that you could appeal them if you'd just had a shocker on the day and there was evidence to suggest that you should have done (much) better.

If that avenue has already been exhausted then I guess he needs to try his best to get back into a credit set and demonstrate that he should have the right to be there. It's a bit odd though if the school doesn't take into account his previous good results when considering which set he should be in.

doopydug said:
However, I have also told him that it is , at the end of the day, his choice and if he wishes to make a complaint, I will go with him to guidance, to discuss it - I am trying to support him rather than abandon him whilst trying to make him see the possible outcome of his actions.
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While I think the teacher might have handled it somewhat crassly it's also not something that I'd think is worth an official complaint, it's one of those things that would be fairly obvious to the children if they'd given it more than a moments thought so while the teacher perhaps shouldn't have discussed individual results it's not exactly revealing anything novel.

estebanrey said:
It was joke, woosh.

But seriously what kind of stupid system is that, what's wrong with A,B,C and D?
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Why are letters better than numbers for grading? In Standard Grades you get 1-2 (credit), 3-4 (general), 5-6 (foundation) and 7 (failure), it's just another way of adding a slightly greater way of granularity to the results but oddly enough for Highers you go to letters - don't ask me why as I haven't got a clue about that.
 
anuraj said:
Hmm... My school follow a weird stereotype or something, because next year Everyone in my top set class is going to be Asian, maybe 1 person from a different ethnicity but I can guarantee at least %90 of my class will be Asian.
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which Asian brown or yellow?
 
Yes - he is confident that he will get a "1" on appeal given his prior record in this class.

semi-pro waster said:
If that avenue has already been exhausted then I guess he needs to try his best to get back into a credit set and demonstrate that he should have the right to be there. It's a bit odd though if the school doesn't take into account his previous good results when considering which set he should be in.
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