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It's a mistake and it's now corrected and you've received an apology. Celebrate the good grade and discuss the importance of perseverance and maintaining your composure when standard communication fails. It's totally fine to take time to vent when shit goes wrong, then regroup and make a plan to correct the issue. That's how we learn to deal with difficult situations. Glad it all worked out for her.

I had a teacher accuse me of cheating on an essay in fifth grade. It was a teacher I really liked up until that point, too, so it really hurt. I don't remember anything about them now, so I must have written them off for it, lol.

I think you've done well by being in her corner and helping clear up the situation. I wouldn't have been able to advocate for myself without them because I was hurting too much just trying to process the situation. I remember my parents were very angry with that teacher, but they had my back. If that weren't the case, it would have destroyed me. Sorry you had to go through that & thanks for being a good dad.

There are a lot of well put and proper responses @today had a really great response.

But this is a vent thread soo:

That is fucked up. What kind of 'teacher' wouldn't bother to read the project that your daughter put a time and effort into?

A crappy one. Who the hell looks at a kids assignment and thing "clip art off the internet, must be professional no 8th grader could do that"

You are an amazing Dad with a great daughter who deserve a much better teacher than this craphead.

I hope that someone switches the salt and sugar containers in that teachers home. I hope that someone partially deflates that teachers tires causing them increased petrol bills to lessened fuel economy I hope that they are forced to use DSL internet.

Glad this all worked out for you and your kid.

I know online schooling can be frustrating. I earned most of my college degree and 2 certificates that way. Ultimately we're all human and even teachers make mistakes. There are also online teachers who bullshit their jobs and do dumb shit like taking cursory looks at assignments and half ass grading. I remember reading somewhere that these teachers will take on several classes and get paid per class and that some of them will work with multiple schools.

I'm sorry your daughter had to deal with that stress. You did the best thing your could which is follow up and keep ask about it and in the worst case scenario, escalate it. Usually these teachers also have phone numbers in their syllabus, don't be afraid to call them or to contact the school to get the number. I remember most online teachers only check their messages once a day and some of them won't check on weekends.

This will probably happen again at some point. Just follow up and contact the teacher. Any time I ever had issues the teachers were adults about it and apologized. Idk if this is with every online school but mine would send out surveys at the end of each class. If you get those make sure to fill them out with good and bad feedback. The positive thing about this is you are showing your daughter how to handle a real world problem like an adult and how to resolve a conflict with someone she has to work with.

As a professional in education policy, I'll let you know that K-12 is pretty terrible. It didn't work for me especially for exactly these reasons and by 9th grade I was burnt out and stopped doing all homework. Thanks to grade inflation, I still got Cs (they have me a C on a quiz I drew a doodle on instead of answering questions on a book I didn't read).

I still got a PhD, but it took community college (and transferred) and the slightly higher respect for me as a person helped tons. There are still shitty instructors at that level, but you have a better chance to avoid them if you navigate the system carefully.

In other words, you'll run into crap like this plenty but even in a worst case scenario, as long as your kid is still smart they'll ultimate have more chances. (Also don't forget internal motivation, validation from teachers is hit or miss but if they do something they like themselves that should also not be diminished).

Had a somewhat similar experience back in my high-school days some 15 years ago.

I went to a specialized school for kids with learning disabilities (ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, visual and auditory processing disorders, etc). I was an exceptionally smart kid doing college level work across the board, but i never did homework. Why bother? I struggled with organization, but i took every test they put in front of me and blew it out of the water, so I clearly understood the material.

With this understood, I was still not allowed to walk graduation with my classmates due to a "failure" to turn in an English research paper that was mandatory for graduation. My family had come out to watch me graduate from hundreds of miles away. I was mortified, especially because I was DAMN sure I turned that paper in multiple times (you were required to show drafts, I had done a first draft, a revision, and a polish). SOMEHOW, those papers never made it to the English teacher according to the school. But don't worry! I could take a $3500 summer class to finish the credit and still get a GED!

Well my dad, who drove out to CA from Texas, could smell the fish once he saw the net. He knew i almost never turned in homework, but I'd never fully blown off an entire assignment before. So he arranged a visit to see the school before he agreed to the summer courses. While he was there (the first Monday after the graduation ceremony none of us got to attend) he physically broke into the English Teachers desk and went through the papers. Tiny school, so there were only 20 students in my graduating class. Not exactly a gigantic number of students to sift through.

Long story short, while the school was freaking out about the 6 foot 5 troll rummaging through school property, he managed to find my paper. All three drafts of my paper, in fact. Before the school could get around to figuring out they should call the cops, my dad took my paper to the Dean and the school director and asked extremely pointed questions about exactly why we were being recommended a summer course to finish up my credits.

We were treated to a plethora of excuses and apologies, from the English teacher misplacing them to how their first graduating class had been "so hectic" that I just fell through the cracks. Again, 20 students in that graduating class. Between grades 9-12 and staff the entire program was less than 100 people. Really, what's losing track of one person out of 100?

My dad graciously agreed not to hunt down and eat anyone from the school in exchange for a full diploma. We reported them to the state, but as a charter school, it was basically a "private" institution and they could do whatever they wanted as long as they met the accreditation requirements.

We ended up just spreading what happened through word of mouth in the parent network. The Dean quickly found new work at a different charter program and the administration board was voted/bought out by the parents of a girl in the grade behind mine. Heard some years later that her dad ran the entire charter into the ground in 3 or 4 years and the charter ended up closing down and reopening in a new city. Also found out our history professor ended up spending some 8 years in a Thai prison for the kinda shit that gets you on government watch lists even when you come back to the US. Bunch of us former students got some very curious calls about him from some very serious federal people about 10 years after graduating.

All in all, I'd still spit blood on most of the staff involved some 15 years later. That kinda hurt never really goes away as a kid. If I were you, I'd push the teacher for a hand written apology or a zoom call face to face thing. Accusing a kid of not doing something in a serious situation isn't a whoopsie that just gets shrugged off. That's shit they carry with them for a long, long time.

Maybe something to the teacher about how distressing it is to receive a 0 on an assignment, and you would hope mext time that would only happen after the teacher verifies its warranted?

I mean your kids going to be submitting assignments directly to an AI education engine by the time she graduates, so either appreciate what you've got now, or alternatively, just hang on a bit longer, cuz things are gonna change.

Having a few teachers like this growing up, I am now also pissed knowing what that shit feels like.

By the way they act online, nothing about this is suprising.