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luckylibrarian · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:57 am Post subject: Ex-employee obligation?

Hi

I have received several emails from my former boss about a student's final grade. I worked a year for this employer and am now back in the US.

I got an email from my former boss about final grades from a class and about this particular student. She says the parent is upset that his son didn't get an A. Dad paid for a tutor twice a week.
I want to know am I obligated to this school to give any more information.?His final grade for both reading and writing was 80. An 80 is passing and he would be allowed to continue on to the next grade level. I explained to my former supervisor in my reply that he got a low grade on my writing final exam. This is why he recieved an 80. She's not satisfied and says it is by law that I submit to her all of the student's grades and explain how I came up with this score.
I was thinking What law?
I personally don't feel I owe any explanation since I no longer work there.

I am currenty job hunting and I don't want to make an ugly issue about one student. I did receive a very good reference letter from the personnel office .
I have been using this letter of reference for future employment.

What do you think I should do?

zactherat · Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Posts: 295

You probably could have written a perfectly adequate explanation for them in about the same time that it took you to post here, complaining, instead.

Curious choice of action really, because it appears you were on good terms with your ex employer.

luckylibrarian · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:34 am Post subject:

Excuse me Zac, but how is that helping me? So you think I didn't explain to her how I gave the student his final grade. She wants to change his grade, so what does that have to do with me? They can change grades with out my help.

dean_a_jones · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 1151 Location: Wuhan, China

JamesD · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:17 am Post subject: Re: Ex-employee obligation?

xiguagua · Joined: 09 Oct 2011 Posts: 768

Sounds like BS to me. The "law" requires that you submit a detailed account of his grades? yeah right. Rolling Eyes

As Dean said, if your business is said and done with that school then you have no obligation to provide them with the grading details assuming that your contract has been successfully completed. Sounds like daddy thinks that tutoring should = A regardless of effort and grades which yeah is typical.

It really depends on you. If it was me, I would reiterate his grades for the school because there's no sense burning bridges after you leave the school. Who knows if you'll need a quick job later and that school is your only choice? If you refuse or ignore the schools request they could see that as you making things difficult for them and refuse you help should you need it in the future. Sure it's a stretch, but it's best to keep people happy so long as it's not inconveniencing you too much.

Miles Smiles · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 1294 Location: Heebee Jeebee

If you have test papers, send scans of them back to the school to show to the parents. If the kid has the test papers, tell the school the number of papers with a description and make the kid show them all to daddy.

If he can produce the writing paper, ask your employer to reevaluate the paper himself, or have the paper reevaluated by another FT.

Then say bye bye.

The school is just passing the buck.