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No grading floor on my child’s gradebook

A 50% grade should never replace 0% effort. Upload your child’s class schedule and this page builds a letter to their teachers, their principal, district leadership and the School Board asking that the gradebook show the score your child actually earned. The schedule never leaves your device and you send the letter yourself.

A grading floor is a rule that no assignment can be entered below a set score, usually 50%. Under a floor, work never turned in and work half done arrive in the gradebook looking the same. Without one, a single missed assignment can sit sixty points below a passing grade when every other letter band is ten points wide.

Parents disagree about which of those is worse, and both positions are held by people who teach for a living. What almost no parent in Lee County has been told is which one is being applied to their own child.

So this page does two things: it tells you what a grading floor is, and it builds the letter either way. Ask for your child’s actual scores, or ask for the floor to be used. Both letters go to the teachers on your child’s schedule, copied to their principal, district leadership and the School Board. You send it yourself, from your own email. We never see it.

What are you asking for?

Pick the one you actually want for your child. Nothing is preselected, and neither choice is ours to make.

Record my child’s actual scores

If an assignment is not turned in, the gradebook should say zero. A 50% grade should never replace 0% effort, and an accurate low grade in September beats a surprise in May.

Use the grading floor for my child

A zero is not one grade below an F, it is sixty points below passing. One missed assignment can outweigh weeks of real work and put the average out of reach, which ends the reason to keep trying.

What this page does

Your child’s schedule stays on your device

The file you choose is read by your own browser and never uploaded. There is no server here that accepts it. Close the tab and nothing about your child remains, including with us.

You send the email, not us

The page fills in the addresses and the text. Sending happens in your own mail app, from your own address, after you have read it. Nothing is sent automatically and nothing is sent on your behalf.

The schedule fills in the details

The school, your child’s name and their teachers all come off the file, so there is nothing to retype. Reading a screenshot is imperfect, so every one of them is shown back to you, next to the line it came from, and you correct or remove anything wrong before there is an email at all.

You can edit every word

The letter is a starting point in a text box. Change it, cut it, write your own. A letter in your words carries further than a letter in ours.

What a letter like this does

A parent cannot order a teacher to enter a particular score, and neither letter pretends to. What they do is ask, in writing, on the record, and ask the second question a hallway conversation never answers: what is this school actually doing, who decided it, and where is it written down. Whichever you are asking for, the answer to that question is the part you can hold on to.

This letter goes on the record

An email to district staff and elected officials is a public record in Florida. That is the point of sending one. A conversation in the pickup line leaves nothing behind. This leaves a dated request with your child’s name on it, a specific question, and an answer somebody has to put in writing. Name your child, say what you want, and keep the reply.

Where the letter’s facts come from

A district spokesman called a 50% floor "categorically false" and said "we have no minimums for grading." Source: WGCU, Dayna Harpster, August 7, 2026. The same report describes an assistant principal telling teachers in a training that the 50% floor came "directly from the top."

The Secondary Grade Reporting Handbook sets no minimum grade. Source: School District of Lee County, Secondary Grade Reporting Handbook FY27 (22 pages, updated 03/10/2026). The string "50%" does not appear in it. Its grade scale runs F 0 to 59.

Grading practice is a school-level decision, by the district’s own account. Source: A district unit-assessment scoring page states that "grades and grading are a school-based decision" and that the modified scale it shows is a recommendation and a sample.

A zero sits sixty points below a passing grade, while every other letter band is ten points wide. Source: The grade scale in the district’s own Secondary Grade Reporting Handbook (p.14): A 90-100, B 80-89, C 70-79, D 60-69 "Lowest Acceptable Progress", F 0-59. This is the arithmetic the second letter rests on.

Course grades reach a school’s state grade. Source: Florida Department of Education, 2025-26 Guide to Calculating School Grades. A high school grade is ten components of 100 points; eight are tests. The other two, graduation rate and college and career acceleration, both run on passing courses and credentials. That is 20% of the grade.

Who the letter is copied to

Parents for Transparency is not a political committee and takes no money for this. This page is about how grades are recorded in Lee County classrooms. It does not mention any candidate, any race or any election, and using it is never an endorsement of anyone.