Can a principal or vice-principal change the letter grade a teacher gives a student?
Perhaps, but administrators are bound by the same Ministerial Orders as teachers so must also evaluate students’ progress in relation to the learning outcomes in the curriculum for the course or subject and grade. Teachers have professional autonomy in their professional judgments but should be prepared to defend their professional judgments about a student’s progress in relation to the learning outcomes to either a principal or a parent. Similarly, a principal who wants to change a student’s letter grade should be able to explain why, with specific reference to the student’s work, she or he feels that the student’s work meets the learning outcomes to a different degree than indicated by the original letter grade. No one is free to assign letter grades on any basis other than student progress in relation to the learning outcomes in the curriculum. The person who makes the evaluation of the student’s progress in relation to the learning resources in the curriculum and assigns the letter
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