What can I say to my teacher to raise my grade 1%?

Question

I have a 59% in Math, and I need a D to be eligible for football season next year, and to pass the class. It will be my senior football season, and I would probably kill myself if I couldn't play. What can I say to my teacher to get her to raise my grade? Thanks

Answer 1

Wow... how luck you are that your school allows you to compete in sports with a D in any subject.  It's a little late in the school year to make up for the lack of a good grade at this point.  You could try taking the class again in Summer School and get your grade up that way. It sounds like Football means a lot to you but most teachers give the grades their students earn and if she wanted to bump it up she would have done so already.  You could talk to her/him and see what they say.

Answer 2

I taught high school for many years and I can honestly say that it could go either way.  First of all, consider yourself lucky that you live where you do.  In my area, 70% is passing, not 60%.  Secondly, before you talk to your teacher, figure out just why you only got a 59.  Was it because you struggled to learn the info but it was just too difficult?  Did you go after school for extra help?  Did you get a tutor?  Did you always turn your homework in?  Did you have good attendance?  Were you always well-behaved and polite for the teacher?  If you can answer yes to these questions, then you can easily persuade the teacher to give you that one point.  If you can't answer yes to at least MOST of them, then I'd say your goose is cooked and you should have been concerned a little sooner in the year!

Answer 3

ask her to do extra credit

Answer 4

Either find a mistake in how she graded your work or how she recorded the grades.  Other than that, you got the grade you earned.  You didn't earn a D, and she could get fired for giving you one.  Sounds like maybe you should take a semester off from football and work on your grades - football won't get you anywhere if you can't pass high school.

Answer 5

Extra=In Addition To, not instead of.  If you haven't turned in every single assignment, I wouldn't go asking for extra credit, because you'll just make your teacher annoyed.  If you whine and beg, you'll annoy them as well.  Likewise for bothering them in the middle of class.  It's the end of the year; your teachers are seriously overworked and stressed out, and just because something is the most important thing in your world, doesn't mean it's the most important thing in your teacher's world.

I would ask your teacher for an appointment to see her when it is convenient for her, and ask her calmly and rationally if there is any way that you can raise your grade.  Don't beg, don't whine and don't threaten to kill yourself.  If she gives you a way to raise your grade, THANK her, and do it promptly, without complaining.

Answer 6

Do you have any extra credit?  

Can I retake one of the tests?

Can I correct some homework assignments?

Anything along those lines that show you want to work for the grade and learn would probably work.

Answer 7

Nothing...... You got the grade you deserved...  You'll have plenty of time to study when your not playing football next season.

Answer 8

tell her the truth.

trust me, teachers arnt all that bad.

we know how you feel.

we probably sucked in school too and went through the same experiences. :P

try it and let me know how it goes

Answer 9

teachers really hate it when you ask them for extra credit at the last minute

work really hard, and get 100% on your next assignment

seriously, you can do it

it should raise your grade by that 1%

especially if it is a quiz or test

when the semester is about to end, asking your teacher to raise your grade or work out some kind of deal with you just isn't going to work

you should have done so sooner

don't believe me?

our basketball coach was so serious about this he that let three of his players/students fail because they did not work hard enough

they came to him at the end of the six-week grading period to ask for extra credit, and as a result, we all got one huge lecture