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Question: Is it legal to tie a student's grade to a parent's signature?

Answer: Schools can set reasonable rules and regulations in regards to grades and have wide discretion concerning awarding grades. Courts rarely intervene in a teacher's academic evaluation of a student. It is unlikely that a court would overturn the award of a bad grade because the student failed to obtain a parent's signature. Usually parent signatures are required on poor tests or projects anyway, so this would give a court even more reason to let a teacher tie a bad grade to a parent signature.


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On 01/08/03
Ritchie from MN said:
What if my mom and dad won't sign my assigment book? I can't make them. How come I get in trouble form the school and lose points? Is that legal?
On 05/11/02
Nicola from TX said:
What if the grade is getting a signature on a gradesheet on which you have a good average? I think Parents should only need to sign low grades and such.
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