So yeah, my heart goes out to you.
Head butting a few brick walls in my life have taught me that.
Have you considered having a personal chat with each teacher alone in a very private and unexpected place? (no witnesses, no marks)
Next stage in game… Colleges are full of liberal professors where conservative students get hammered when they oppose their view.
Depending on how determined you are, file a formal complaint, get an attorney, hire a PI to investigate the suspect teachers ... or home school.
Maybe your kid is just not working hard enough and you are too much of a helicopter Mom?
Improvise, adapt and overcome is the best way to handle life.
Anyone someone challengers the system... it is almost an always guaranteed loss. You have to understand the nature of the “Beast” and then decide if it's worth the battle. Pick and choose your battles carefully and always think of what it will cost you if you lose. If you win will it be worth all the effort?
I don't think you are paranoid and yes the teachers are punishing you. You can never prove it, but I believe you are correct.
My son was an honors student for 4 straight years. He compiled A grades and above for all 4 years of high school including AP courses and was ranked third in a class of 365 students. . What a kick in his teeth to him it was to get a B grade in Fizz Ed on the last report card of his senior year.
Get your DAUGHTER to go in and fight for that extra 0.1%.
Students who put in that effort usually succeed. Focus on objective questioning of each point.
Don’t let her just sit there and take it.
But SHE is the one who must do it, not you. You can aid and guide her, but don’t do it instead of her.
Go to the school board. They are elected, and won’t like the press.
Not once in my adult life has anyone asked me about my grades.
As long as your kids are safe, who cares about the honors?
Worry about whether or not your kid can self-motivate and adjust to adversity, and stop looking to others for validation. Teach them to do the right thing on their own, for their own self-satisfaction.
And remind yourself that no one likes working with a know-it-all, a crusader or someone with a persecution complex. It sure sounds like that’s what you’re projecting to the teachers. No wonder they’re turned off.
Stay out of it. It’s ultimately meaningless. Infuriating, to be sure, but just not that important. I know I got some award at graduation, but, for the life of me, I don’t remember what it was for. Neither will she.
I don’t think you’re paranoid, but with all due respect, I think you’re hovering. If your child is doing honors work, she’s in middle-school or above (you didn’t say).
I think it’s time that you allowed her to take responsibility for her own grades. I’ve had four children; my last is a senior in high school. By the time they reached 7th grade they knew the responsibility lay with them. The only time I ever confronted a teacher was when my obsessive-compulsive daughter brought home a “journalism” project where she had to write her own obituary - a ridiculous concept that she would have had nightmares about for a long time to come.
Until you step back and let your daughter do HER job (school), the teachers will continue to view you as an annoyance, and her grades MIGHT reflect that.
On the other hand, perhaps she simply made some errors on a test? No one can be perfect all the time.
One more reason we home school our kids.
When a teacher asks for an assignment in a specific format, I always found it useful to follow directions.
I don’t know what all is ‘going on’ but it may well be that you are more interested in her grades than she is. I always told my daughter I did not care about the grade she brought home ( though they were always good), what I cared about was whether she learned something
So yeah, my heart goes out to you.
The Republican convention hat I habitually wore when I did go might have helped. I wasn't a delegate, but volunteered for the GOP and was given a hat. Nobody asked. I also mentioned to our Representative's people that my daughter had worked for his campaign when he was going to meet with a group she was a member of. The four times life size portrait of MLK my wife did for the girls' elementary school and was kind enough to loan to the superintendent probably didn't hurt matters, either.
It probably would have been a lot easier to home school. That is what I would have done if I knew then what I know now.
Regarding the math journal, was it specified in the assignment that a marble notebook be used?
