Q: Can a teacher tie grades to a fundraising assignment in a public school?
My son was not successful in raising the assigned $150 for his Missouri public school newspaper. Upon receiving his report card, he noticed this was a heavily weighted part of his grade (1 point for every dollar raised). So much so that his grade dropped an entire GPA. I enquired with a few student families and discovered that many parents simply wrote a check for $150 to the school. These students received the full credit for this assignment. Is this legal to essentially buy grades?
A:
You raise a valid point. But the school would probably argue that it was not taking money, but basing performance on raising funds for a project. The other parents may have seen the dilemma and decided it would be easier to simply pay the money and be done with it. The problem is that it would cost several times that amount to have an attorney review the matter. Good luck
Tim Akpinar
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