These responses will get major push-back. By indicating a personal and subjective intent to be ungenerous, parents will feel (perhaps rightly) that they want t

These responses will get major push-back. By indicating a personal and subjective intent to be ungenerous, parents will feel (perhaps rightly) that they want to take this further. Edited to add, my approach would be more like: "I have graded 8bitsrule as generously as I could under the circumstances, and the grade is final. 8bitsrule will need to show a better understanding of communicating diplomatically in order to succeed in next semester's courses. 8bitsrule could try the following specific tasks over the break:"