You are crying at the end of the trimester when you see your grade on Synergy as 79.9%. You want a good GPA for college, and your parents expect you to get all A’s and B’s on your report card. You are now in trouble, and you look over at your friends’ synergy, and it says that they have an 89.0%, which got rounded up to an A just because they had a different teacher.

    A lot of teachers have different policies, such as late work and bathroom policies, but another important one that kids care about is the teachers’ grade rounding policy. It is not reasonable when one teacher rounds up, but another teacher of the same course  does not. It would be different if these policies were in different subjects, but in the same subject it causes issues of fairness for students.

   For example, in one history class, one of the teachers rounds up if a student’s grade is 79.5% or up, but the other history teacher won’t even round if someone’s grade is 79.9%.This is extremely unfair, since students are assigned teachers and they do not get to choose. 

   Another issue is extra credit. Some teachers give students an opportunity for extra credit and others do not, even if they teach the same course. Although it is up to the student to do the extra credit assignments, it is not up to them to be given the opportunity. The extra credit should be offered to both classes, or to neither. 

    Teachers should communicate with each other to have consistent grading policies. Students with one teacher should not get more opportunities for grade improvement than someone with a different teacher.

   I believe that grading policies for all teachers should be the same, especially if they are teaching the same subject. I believe that the policy should be shared between the teachers teaching the same subject.