进展汇报：关于我女儿七年纪数学老师

这是我给校长写了email：

Dear Mr. xxxxx,

I am xxxx, Stephanie mom. I am writing to you in hope that you could advise us on how we could settle a disagreement between Mrs. xxxx and me. May I ask you to keep this discussion between us at the moment before we figure out how we can carry on the discussion with xxxxx?

There has been conversations between Mrs. xxxx and my hu*****and xxxx (who is also cced on this email) and me regarding Stephanie Math Chapter 4 Quiz. (Please see attached the scan of the quiz.) We believe Mrs. xxxx's answers to question #4 and #5 are wrong. We tried to discuss this with Mrs. xxxx and she seemed to take this discussion negatively and stands firm with her answers. Mrs. xxxx gave full credit to students who gave the answer 25 and 121 to questions #4 and #5 respectively, while gave no credit to Stephanie who gave answers √9 and √81. This seems very unreasonable to me. Mrs. xxxx seemed to give us an impression that 25 and 121 were the answers taught in the class and most of the students followed that answers in the quiz. However, my thought on this is mathematics is about true or false of statements and what matters here is what is the right answer. What was taught in class is not most relevant here. If most students gave the answers 25 and 121 because it is what was taught, then I praise Stephanie for her independent thinking. I hope you agree with me on this one.

The following is the full discussion I copied and pasted from the previous emails between Mrs. xxxx and my hu*****and and me. We feel from Mrs. xxxx's last email that we don't know how we could proceed with that conversation anymore. She seemed unable to give us answers to our questions. We are hoping to get your advices how we could get this resolved. Our goal is to get this resolved without it having negative impact on Stephanie's future learning activities as she is still in Mrs. Turndrup's class.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
xxxxx

校长到是很快回了信。好象是想和稀泥，大事化小，小事化了：

I don’t like the question. I do not believe it is worth your time unless this changes a trimester grade. If you want to pursue your discussion, ask that the department chair join the discussion or allow me to discuss it with the department chair. xxxxx

我不满意就此了结。这不仅仅是分数的问题。我又我给校长回了信：

Mr. Waters,

Thanks for your reply. We feel this is important to us for the following reasons:

1. We'd like to get to to bottom of this since we are concerned about the quality of the math education our daughter is getting. In this regard, we would be happy if you could convince us that our understanding of the questions was wrong and the teacher was right, as this would imply that Stephanie's is being taught correctly.

2. We are trying to figure what kind of message we should convey to Stephanie - answer a question using whatever the teacher gave or answer a question based on what she believes correct. For us it is obviously the latter. Then how can we explain these two questions and their gradings to her?

The bottom line, I think the question is ok and clear. The answer is very clear also. This is not a tricky question. We understand that everybody makes mistake. What I am surprised is that the teacher still could not realize her answers were wrong even after we pointed that out. That is what worries me!

If you think you should discuss this with the department chair, please do so. Please keep Mrs. xxxx out of this discussion if possible. We have to consider the fact that Stephanie is still in her class.

Thanks,
xxxx


我想校长会去和depatment chair讨论这事。我希望他们意识到这是一个不合格的数学老师，她逻辑混乱，概念不清，还不肯纠正错误。再接着我会要求换给我女儿换班。我女儿已经有些概念糊涂了。