re: Any teachers here? Question for you.

She has no audience at home. I'm sure her friends are already tired of hearing about it. She had to tell someone.

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Pics of daughter? 

unless HS 

then noodz 

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As a student who was the near victim of a teacher's grading "mistake" (I don't think it was--I think the motherfricker tried to dock me a grade for reasons I won't get into), I would be pretty fricking furious and demand that I either get the quiz back or be allowed to retake the quiz. And if he didn't acquiesce to my request, I'd go to the administration.

ETA: for those of you counseling to let it go, I would only do so if this quiz meant something along one percent of the overall grade. If it's worth any more than that, as the student, I'd feel like the teacher was purposefully or negligently putting my grade in the class at risk, which I couldn't abide. Given the competitiveness of college admissions and scholarships, getting a B in one class can actually matter as to where you end up collegiately. In the long haul, will it mean much? Maybe not, but I'd sure as shite never want to look back and wonder "What if Mr. frickstick hadn't lost my quiz and I had a 4.0 instead of a 3.9? Maybe I would have ended up at another university or maybe I would have gotten a better scholarship." Laugh all you want, but the sad truth is it's true.

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Frankly, I cannot imagine ever losing a set of quiz papers.

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I can't either ... 3 sections of quizzes can't be found or at least haven't been brought for the students to review. Again, I'm letting her handle it but was honestly wondering if other schools have some type of policy about this. Never had one of my children tell me this before. What concerns her is the past grading errors this teacher (whom they LOVE) has made in actual grading AND in posting the grades.

eta And for the record to those with snide comments, if you do nothing as parent, you "don't care" and are "uninvolved with raising your kids". If you DO try to help, then you're "overinvolved and not teaching your kids anything". Geeze ... I was asking about other schools and clearly pointed out that I've told her that SHE needs to handle this ... isn't that the middle of the road??

As a teacher: YOU need to be the one to ask for the quiz. Let the teacher know that your daughter has made attempts and now you are getting involved. If the teacher can not provide the quiz then I would demand a re-test. The only problem is if the teacher claims they did give the quiz back. It would just be your daughters word against his and administration is going to back him up unless they are trying to get rid of him.

I teach Sex Ed to a bunch of college girls. Does that count?

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Do your schools have policies on this?

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As a teacher, we are required to give back all graded assignments within three days (excluding major papers, exams, etc.).

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What would you do if you had misplaced a quiz/test before the kids were able to review it?

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If I lost someone's work, I would have given them either a redo or no grade.

Here's my professional educator advice, fwiw, lol:

If your daughter has asked numerous times for the quiz and he hasn't delivered, keep in mind that she probably isn't the only student dealing with the issue. If he's doing this on a regular basis, you're not the only parent who has noticed. That means that most likely, parents have reported this to the principal, and you need to do the same, because good principals take note when a teacher pulls this kind of stuff. The principal is most likely to bump it back to the teacher for them to correct the problem, but if they don't, call the counselor to schedule a parent-teacher conference with a principal present. It seems like a lot of steps, but it can be accomplished in a couple of days. If it's a good school, the principal will have it straightened out and also hold the teacher's feet to the fire come evaluation time. Doing this helps the principal use ammo when they non-renew shitty teachers' contracts at the end of the year.