It never ends at work

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You cannot make this stuff up. The online grading program has a default setting for the weights of the different categories--assignments, quizzes, tests. Each department has separate ones that have to be adjusted at the start of each year. Yeah we all did that back in September but somewhere along the way I noticed that they had reverted to the defaults. I readjusted them a couple of weeks ago toward the end of the marking period which changed some students' grades. I had one student who went from an A to a B+ and the parents went nuclear. They emailed me and like 4 more people up the chain. Everyone explained what had happened to MANY teachers and not just me. Well now they are showing up at school on Monday for a meeting to get an explanation about what happened. . . which they already have received like 3 or 4 times now. It is over an hour after I have to be at work so the supervisor said he didn't expect me to stay there but asked if I was willing to attend via Google Meet (online). I told him that I would speak to the head building union rep because doing that was out of contract hours. After speaking to him I emailed the supervisor that I wouldn't be attending. The insane thing was that I was exasperated yesterday and marched into his office and said "just give the kid the effing A! I don't care!" He said the mother didn't want the A and they weren't going to change the grade anyway. I was like "what else do you have to tell this mother that you haven't already said?" He said "nothing--she just wants to talk about it." The woman above him apparently knows the mother and knows she is crazy. No thank you. They can deal with that since they make the big bucks.