unfairtreatment
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My English teacher (head of department at my school), today, altered one of my classmates' trial assessment mark upwards, by another 5 marks. This improved his rank from 3rd to 2nd, where I was previously 2nd.
The facts behind this were:
1) Our teacher handed back our trial answers with individual marks for each question. We were allowed the period to check the paper, calculate total marks, etc. This happened last week.
2) We had to hand in our papers by the end of the period. My teacher said that no alterations would be made to the marks from then on, so we would not be able to appeal for more marks after that time.
My classmate, in 3rd place, received 73%, while I received 75%. He made no appeals for mark changes at that point.
3) Note that, in our trials, we only use our student number, and not our names. We wrote our names on our marking sheets before we gave back our papers for her records.
4) Today, we got our papers back to keep. My classmate announced to me that he had now come 2nd in the trial with 78%, which is an entire 5% above his original mark. Remember that no appeals could have been made for more marks after handing the papers in the first time. This really messed up the rankings (for me), as I told you before. I was previously in second place, now I'm third.
5) The teacher had changed the marking sheet entirely to reflect the new marks: she had rewritten the entire sheet so that no evidence of his previous marks were left.
6) When my classmate's name was not revealed on the answer paper in the trial, he received poor marks in comparison to mine. However, once his name was written on the paper, his marks miraculously went up... above mine! Of course, in all previous assessment tasks with his name written on his answers, he always scored better than me. This makes me very suspicious... perhaps he never deserved those marks.
7) I was not the only person who witnessed this.
8) This is not the first time my teacher has favoured him, but this is the first time I've had solid evidence to confirm my suspicions. There has been a similar pattern throughout the year, where he seems to receive marks which are not in accordance with the standard of his performance, nor his submitted work! A few of my classmates have also noticed this unfair treatment.
What should I do? It is no use going to any of the teachers... My English teacher is the head of the English department, and it is most likely that the principal and secondary head would not be sympathetic. He seems to get the same 'service' from most of his other teachers, as well. This is very unfair to the rest of the students who submit high quality work, but are not recognised or duly rewarded the appropriate marks.
Any suggestions? Do you think this is fair? Is this cheating the HSC - by both teacher and student? Am I also guilty by association, if I do not reveal these misdeeds? Do you think the Board of Studies cares about these kinds of unethical activities?
The facts behind this were:
1) Our teacher handed back our trial answers with individual marks for each question. We were allowed the period to check the paper, calculate total marks, etc. This happened last week.
2) We had to hand in our papers by the end of the period. My teacher said that no alterations would be made to the marks from then on, so we would not be able to appeal for more marks after that time.
My classmate, in 3rd place, received 73%, while I received 75%. He made no appeals for mark changes at that point.
3) Note that, in our trials, we only use our student number, and not our names. We wrote our names on our marking sheets before we gave back our papers for her records.
4) Today, we got our papers back to keep. My classmate announced to me that he had now come 2nd in the trial with 78%, which is an entire 5% above his original mark. Remember that no appeals could have been made for more marks after handing the papers in the first time. This really messed up the rankings (for me), as I told you before. I was previously in second place, now I'm third.
5) The teacher had changed the marking sheet entirely to reflect the new marks: she had rewritten the entire sheet so that no evidence of his previous marks were left.
6) When my classmate's name was not revealed on the answer paper in the trial, he received poor marks in comparison to mine. However, once his name was written on the paper, his marks miraculously went up... above mine! Of course, in all previous assessment tasks with his name written on his answers, he always scored better than me. This makes me very suspicious... perhaps he never deserved those marks.
7) I was not the only person who witnessed this.
8) This is not the first time my teacher has favoured him, but this is the first time I've had solid evidence to confirm my suspicions. There has been a similar pattern throughout the year, where he seems to receive marks which are not in accordance with the standard of his performance, nor his submitted work! A few of my classmates have also noticed this unfair treatment.
What should I do? It is no use going to any of the teachers... My English teacher is the head of the English department, and it is most likely that the principal and secondary head would not be sympathetic. He seems to get the same 'service' from most of his other teachers, as well. This is very unfair to the rest of the students who submit high quality work, but are not recognised or duly rewarded the appropriate marks.
Any suggestions? Do you think this is fair? Is this cheating the HSC - by both teacher and student? Am I also guilty by association, if I do not reveal these misdeeds? Do you think the Board of Studies cares about these kinds of unethical activities?
