Hello. My dd received her A level results yesterday and though they aren't bad, we are really confused by her art one. She followed the AQA guidelines which most others did not, so she did many mediums and a whole load of research with some great books that were used as an example to the class.
One of her friends got much higher and had done one medium throughout. As lovely as the work is I don't understand how their gradings were so different.
It has been a huge struggle the whole last year as her art teacher has zero enthusiasm and often didn't update with important information when she promised to.
DD's grading went up, down, up, down and we never knew where she was at. Even in the exam the teacher pulled a rude face when she looked at my dd's piece and was praising others which threw dd a bit.
I have spoken to the school and strangely the person I spoke to didn't disagree with some of my points but also said "well, it's subjective" which worried me as are art teachers allowed to grade art on their own preferences?
DD luckily has unconditional offers so is very lucky. Her art teacher just frowned when she told her excitedly about that and said "I wish they'd stop giving those out". No well done or anything.
I am tempted to get the art regraded just because I feel the teacher just doesn't like my DD, which may sound paranoid but she never once said anything nice about DD's work. I am also aware that the teacher's DS wanted to date my DD and DD wasn't in to that which is interesting as the teacher was much nicer to DD years ago before this happened.
Is it worth it? Really we just want explanations to help DD moving forward but have met a brick wall so far.