AITA for not changing a student’s grade after his mom brought in “real” project?
I’m a middle school teacher. Two weeks ago we had a final science project on ecosystem models. I asked students to build a simple model and explain how plants, animals, water and food chains are connected.
Main rule was that the project had to be done mostly in class. I wanted to assess the students understanding, not the knowledge of their parents. One student turned in a standart shoebox model. It was hurried, with handwritten labels, little information, two mistakes in the food chain and a half page explanation rather than a full page, but it wasn’t horrible. I put B- as he was trying to make it.
After I posted the grades online in the next two day, his mom came to my classroom after school with a huge model in a box. It was a completely different project with fake moss, plastic animals, printed labels, even a small light. She said this was the “real version” of the project her son hadn’t had time to finish at school and asked me to change the grade.
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