Freshman son has all As so far in high school. He had an elective art class from a horrible teacher who consistently didn't input assignments (for weeks or, sometimes, ever), marked him absent on days with excused absences for school athletic games and didn't let him make up the assignments done in class on those days, etc. The class was a joke and most of almost every class period the kids finished early and they did their homework for other classes while the teacher was on her phone. He talked about his grade with her several times after getting his midterm progress report, and in my opinion she was unprofessional (told him several times she was too tired after class to talk to him), seems to have been punitive (significantly changed how she started marking his work when he started asking her to input his completed but not graded assignments), didn't follow through (ultimately never input some of his assignments) and didn't keep her word (she told him his last assignment would earn him full credit, then marked it as 80% which meant his final "B" grade missed getting an "A" by less than 0.5%).

I'm actually pretty committed to making my kids fight their own battles and I don't always just take my kids' word for it when they disagree with a teacher, but I am so frustrated with this teacher and this situation that I just want to handle this. I will absolutely not be satisfied with anything less than an A for him in this class. I don't think it's worth talking to her about this. My son did that already many times during the semester. Do I go to the assistant principal over academics (there are several, and students are assigned to one based on the first letter of their last name)? My son is never going to take another class from her.