you can't do that - that is not how math works!

Oh my gawd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The school has some misconception, I guess too many D's and F's on progress reports?

So we're having these team meetings where everyone sees how many of each letter grade you gave out, per class, with total at bottom, and all qty's are also shown as a percentage.

They take the totals percentage and add those all up! You can't add percentage, but somehow they do. Then they want to look at it comparatively. Instead of bell curve, we have upside down bell curve, and NO ONE BUT ME sees that as a problem.

Then they want to talk about "improving student grade trajectory" when they really only had one data point. You have to have a line/path for trajectory, not just one point (first set of grades).

So first progress report one of my classes for example, was small, so it had 4 kids who got an A, and that ended up being 40%, the same class grew quite in size, so second reporting period, again I got 4 kids getting an A (nothing at all indicates if same or different kids!), but now its closer to 20%. They actually want to take the 40% and the 20%, and are saying, I gave half as many A's, when it obvious 4=4, but I am the only one freaking out in a meeting with over 10 other teachers in a room, but they are all either clueless or afraid to tell "management" - its math, there are rules and YOU CAN'T DO THAT! [and yes, there are math teachers in the room!]


Next thing you know, they'll try to teach me how to take my zipcode, add it to your zipcode, divide that by two and I'll have the zipcode of the post office halfway between your home and mine!