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re: Memphis Counselor Not Talking - Auburn Questioned the Grade Change
Posted on 8/30/12 at 8:49 am to Gnar Cat21
Posted on 8/30/12 at 8:49 am to Gnar Cat21
I can see the change in cumulative GPA. When I was in school, however, 70 was a C, and some programs did not base cumulative GPA on the difference between a C of 70 and a C of 76, i.e. on a 4 point GPA scale an F is a 0, D is a 1, C is a 2, B is a 3, A is a 4. In that case a GPA with 7 components totaling 3.0 with the addition of a C would become a 2.5 regardless of the quality of the C.
If 70 equals D that is whole different scenario.
If 70 equals D that is whole different scenario.
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Posted on 8/30/12 at 8:50 am to TideGolfer
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70=D 76=C
Could have raised his GPA....
WTF?
90-100=A, 80-89=B, 70-79=C, 60-69=D, 0-59=F. This is how it always was to me. Except for the bitch Romanian English Lit teacher who counts a 82 as a C. frick you.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 8:51 am to HVAU
Depends on the system. I have worked in some that a 70 is a D, others that a 70 is a C.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 8:52 am to Gnar Cat21
Probably his hs coach asked for it and or the bagman 
Posted on 8/30/12 at 8:55 am to DLineCoach
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In MCS, a D grade is between 70 and 74. A grade of C is 75 to 84.
They have a jacked up system.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 8:56 am to allin2010
Bottom line: The kid couldn't make a passing grade in the Memphis city school system. Awful.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 8:57 am to HVAU
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If his qualification was based on the original grade JR should be playing. I am not convinced he is that this isn't just a case of JR being penalized for the counselor's incompetence. Maybe that is a naive view though.
"In an Aug. 10 e-mail to White, Wooddale principal Michael Kyle outlined what he said he knew. On May 18, while checking grades for errors, a teacher for a student whose name was redacted noticed that a grade had been changed from a 70 to a 76. The teacher "changed the grade back to a 70 and that was the grade on the transcript that was released," he wrote.
One month later, Kyle said, Auburn called "asking about a different transcript that was sent," presumably for Robinson. Kyle viewed the transcript and it still reflected a 70, so he ran an audit to see who changed it."
Here is what apparently happened. On May 4th, JR's teacher entered a grade of 70 into the system (JR's real grade).
Sometime between May 4th and May 18th that grade was changed to a higher grade, and the falsified transcript was sent to Auburn. A month later when Auburn made inquiries about JR, the principal had an opportunity to compare the transcript sent to Auburn with the real transcript, and of course they didn't match. The question is, who asked the counselor to change JR's transcript?
This post was edited on 8/30/12 at 8:59 am
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:03 am to King Crimson
Can I get my name changed to AuburnGPA?
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:03 am to King Crimson
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The question is, who asked the counselor to change JR's transcript?
Since I doubt she did it out of the goodness of her heart, a secondary question would be how much was she paid?
Anybody familiar with Tennessee ethics laws? Does she have any criminal exposure if she got paid to do it? The story seems to have traction, so it might get the DA's attention.
The threat of prosecution might encourage her to expand on her story a bit....
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:04 am to JustGetItRight
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Since I doubt she did it out of the goodness of her heart
It's not unfathomable for a guidance counselor to actually care about people, and want them to succeed.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:06 am to HVAU
Where I went to school the grading system was harder than the public schools which was the 60-69 D 70-79-C etc.
The harder grade scales were used by private and magnet type schools. I cant remember exactly how mine was but an A was 94-100 and B - 86- 93..
The harder grade scales were used by private and magnet type schools. I cant remember exactly how mine was but an A was 94-100 and B - 86- 93..
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:12 am to JustGetItRight
It's pretty obvious that someone from Auburn paid her money to change a grade.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:12 am to Slippery Slope
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It's not unfathomable for a guidance counselor to actually care about people, and want them to succeed.
When a bama fan is speculating about auburn it is.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:13 am to Slippery Slope
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It's not unfathomable for a guidance counselor to actually care about people, and want them to succeed.
No, it isn't. However, if that were the case once caught a simple 'I did it because I wanted to help him out' would suffice and might have saved her career. It would at least create a sympathetic note in her personnel file.
Going into a meeting were you're being suspended pending termination and saying 'I did it, someone told me to do it, and I am not going to say who or why' means she got paid.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:15 am to ugasickem
Obviously 
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:15 am to JustGetItRight
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means she got paid
scandalous.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:15 am to allin2010
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In her 2005 employment application, she listed a 1996 bachelor's degree in criminal justice at Ole Miss and a 1999 master's degree in education counseling, also from Ole Miss.
Death Penalty
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:16 am to Slippery Slope
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Since I doubt she did it out of the goodness of her heart
It's not unfathomable for a guidance counselor to actually care about people, and want them to succeed.
Even if it was out of kindness that the counselor made the change, it's not likely that she did it on her own. With all the students at that school, what's the likelihood that she just happened upon JR's transcript, and seeing it lacking, felt compassion for him, and changed it? Someone came into her office and brought it to her attention.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:19 am to King Crimson
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it's not likely that she did it on her own.
She already said as much
Did anyone actually click on the link?
Since we're all playing columbo in here, is it possible the highschool coach, who she was stepping out with, asked her to do it so he could keep getting steak dinners from coaches as they passed through and get his kids to quality camps, oh and ugh by the way, i know you paid jovon robisons mother for the car
oh and in before one of you starts the acoms razor shite.
This post was edited on 8/30/12 at 9:20 am
Posted on 8/30/12 at 9:19 am to King Crimson
In Mississippi and I guess Tennessee, the normal grading is:
93-100- A
85-92- B
75-84- C
70-74- D
69-below- F
93-100- A
85-92- B
75-84- C
70-74- D
69-below- F
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