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I have been with school for 18 months now and will be leaving soon. It seems like it's coming up to the point where I need to get out so that's a good thing, but I digress...

The 1st 12 months was great. I had a fantastic, supportive co-teacher who allowed me to concentrate on my lessons and teaching. We discussed how to grade students on their performance in class and he would assign points as I taught. I also would recommend he assign points to students during class.

For the last 5/6 months I have been on my own with a new year and have been teaching in a computer room (difficult) to 17 classes of 45+ students. Some of the classes are great but others have been hard work and I have found teaching and maintaining discipline while adding/subtracting points for everything every student does in every class quite difficult.

Does anyone else do this in their public school classes? I gave my grades out today and my school have complained they are too low (lowest scoring students are usually getting around 70%, some in the really disruptive class got lower) and that they don't think I have done it as accurately as I should have.

They have a point about the accuracy, I have had to be a bit more general than I would have liked because of the volume of students and the fact that when I am with them I am teaching, monitoring and trying to keep discipline.

Since I gave the grades, I've had students coming up to me all afternoon saying that 85-90% is too low and that they "want" 100%. I have been quite shocked and told them that over 80% is a good score. Has anyone else had any problems with grading public school classes? I can see that this might be going on all next week...

(PS: The grade is worth 10% of their English score)...

[SeoulNate]