Admin is scared of parents coming to the school to yell and cuss at them and threatening to sue them🙄. But yea, it’s like school has lost its purpose. Kids go to school to prepare for the real world to survive as adults. How is letting kids pass by after not doing a lick of work and missing lots of days going to help them in the future?
When I said no to changing an already generous grade, the admin went behind my back and changed it himself secretly. Somehow. That's when I really began to get the picture.
That happened to me once, when one of my underperforming students was trying to get into a rigorous magnet high school. The counselors told me if she didn't pass my class she wouldn't get in, so I talked to her about what she needed to do to get her grade up (she did receive some SpEd services), but she did NOTHING. I reminded her again as the year came to a close; again NOTHING, so of course she failed my class. Surprise surprise! She ends up in the magnet high school at the beginning of the next year; how did THAT happen? The high school teacher of my same subject later told me how she saw the student's lack of performance, and was concerned about her not making it through their curriculum (students who fail at the magnet schools can be kicked out). Well by the end of the school year she was back in her neighborhood high school. I never did find out who changed her grade though.
During the 2020-21 school year we went to “mastery” grading. Basically an A is 80%+, a B is 60-79%, a C is 40-59% and a D is 20-39%. That was it for me. I quit at the end of the school year
Our state eliminated the state-wide end of year assessment that correlated with the CCSS. Our state's mainstream students cd not pass it above a 54%. We cd no longer blame students of color nor ESL pupils. So, we ended state testing. Hence, our high school graduation rate rose fm 59.2% to 90.1%. God help any student who moves to another state & has to perform on grade level at the primary, secondary, & higher edu level. Our governor has his priorities. Well, the fast-food 🍔 industry & theme parks are really huge in the state & educated people won't work behind those counters.
I retired ( at a cut in my pension) at 59. I had a great principal, but my department head, school department admin and state personnel were just too much to take any more.
@@sandracheeks1811 Sounds like engineering school. Except for these guys there's no such thing as normal vacation or any sort of appropriate resting time
Here's a brilliant idea for the admins that want me and every other teacher to change grades for certain students: how about you send us those requests in writing, and then we can send those requests to the superintendent and school board to see how they'll respond to you attempting to break state education codes to make you look good.
I’ve had to explain to so many educators how inaccessible turn and talks can be. When you have a classroom of 26 trying to do turn and talk, it’s going to sound like a jumbled painful mass of sound to kiddos with sensory processing difficulties.
They make teachers do it in meetings too. You always get grouped or partnered with the people you least want to be with and often it's an uncomfortable time. So I can see how the kids feel!
Smh admin asking teachers to have a turn & talk piece of the lesson plan when the kids are non-verbal.... Lord please grant those admin with some brain cells. Smh! 🤦🏼♀️
@@saraflint2982 I'm agreeing with you. It's scary that you can be asked to assess what's not submitted to you. This kind of thing used to be the stuff of sitcoms or satire. Mad world 🤦🏽♀️
My admin has told us this before; in 1 job, not only did they use THIS "explanation", but also tried to use the comparison to college, where you might not have any assignments throughout the semester, but just be graded on your final exam (I've taught middle school my entire career). Fortunately our state Ed. agency found out about it, and declared this type of grading policy to be illegal.
My head objected to me reading a story to them just 5 minutes before lunch break and 10 minutes before the end of the day with their coats on and ready to go home. They adored me reading to them. It settled them down and calmed them. I was told I should have been 'teaching' right up until the last minute of each session. He moved my classroom nearer his office to monitor me and was always looking or coming in. And woe betide if I was sat at my desk, yet it was ok for his 'favourite' teachers to do that. I lived on eggshells the whole time although knew my students were learning. Then he introduced a new idea that we had to read to our children at the end of each week instead of letting them have their free treat session called Golden Time. They resented that they had to listen to me read for half hour instead of 5 or 10 minutes and miss out on the things they chose to do. I think he just didn't ever want us to have any down time at all with the kids, had to always be 'all singing and dancing' and on our toes. Im so glad I left teaching. I used to love it but became so miserable.
Only two to share...sorry haven't sought out where to submit...Admin told me not 'to worry' about 2 HS students who fought in the hall infrastructure of my classroom...resulting in broken glass when elbows and arms went through it causing blood everywhere and stitches to one. They played in the football game that night!!! Student with lots of 'issues' was disrupting class EVERYDAY. Elicited others to help me contact adult of record (very small town) when all calls were ignored. Principal decides a conference was in order. Disinterested Adult attends,...comments that "Ya'll just gonna have to get along..." I proceeded to explain my views on teacher/student relations in the classroom. I was reprimanded and the student continued to do as 'they' pleased!!
Admin told me that if I was more engaging, then maybe I would not have any behavior problems. I have 10 major behaviors. I'm my class. admin always finds a way to make it my fault. Yes I'm leaving this profession in June.
I think like everything else, it comes down economics. If kids are allowed to fail then the school has to offer summer school for high schoolers or hold back for elementary kids
Yes! Kids have to learn that there’s consequences for their actions and parents need to teach them that. Kids today are getting away with too many ridiculous stuff and it’s not gonna help them in the future when it’s time for them to be adults and be on their own.
I had a student who never came in and had a 0%. I had another student who pulled it together midquarter, and earned a cumulative 37%. My admin said we could pass kids or give them a 60. The district said nothing under a 50%, but anything above was fine. I wanted to give the 0 a 50, and the 37 a 64%. The one who legit tried and came to get extra help, I wanted to give the highest f possible to make it easiest to pull it up with clear communication that they grade had not quite been earned, but I was helping as much as I could, but he had not passed. But I was forced to either pass him or give him the same grade as the 0% or the principal would change it for us and write us up (or make our lives 'fun' because her policy was against district policy)
Reminds me of a college professor who gave a student a failing grade. He earned the F. Administration ordered him to give a passing grade to this good basketball player since the school was in the state basketball finals. Professor REFUSED. YEAH
You need more parents like my daughter. She got a call from her child's teacher reporting that the child was cussing and using racial slurs in the classroom. She told the mother that is the behavior continued that would have to refer the child. Mom responded "Go ahead refer him, take back control of your classroom." If more parents were like this, you teachers would not have as many problems.
In my 24 years of teaching, we only failed about 6 kids. They failed because they didn't do the work. At all. Any kid who made a decent attempt at it received at worst, a D. If you got an F, you seriously earned it.
Three days out of 5, the admin turned me into a mental health counselor without a license, training, nor credentials. A student complained that showing her the weekly mental health video line up made her want to kill herself. So, I sent her to guidance & admin dropped in for a visit & told me not to reinforce reflection feedback fm students but continue showing the depressing videos. The rest of the week was spent administering the individual timed readings, i.e., Dibels to 27 students per period. So, since I wasn't teaching, which is what I was hired to do, I quit.
We're you transferred or not invite you back to the school because they can't fire you without a hearing? Funny, one of our premier principals was fired for changing the grades of athletes but most teachers are forced to change grades for ghost students who are no shows the entire school year, 🤔.
“Being their friend.” Something very similar happened to me my first year teaching. I was actually taking over a class where the teacher quit. The class was always out of control, but they were slowly getting better. One day, I got a new student, and he disrupted the class constantly. One day, he came in and immediately started a fist fight with another student. I sent him to the office. An admin came to my room, bringing the student back and said to me, “It looks like the teacher and the student have clashing personalities.” Right…the reason this student started a fist fight 2 minutes before the morning bell rang, before I could even say “hello” is because I have an unlikeable personality.
Actually, you could follow through on the admin’s orders about giving the student the grade he would have gotten has he done the work. He would have gotten an F based on past grades, so give him an F on all those unturned assignments because that’s what he would’ve earned and then he will still get an F for the class.
No wonder why kids are the way they are. Feeling so entitled and that everything should be handed to them. This is just like my ex and how he gives his teenage children allowance for surviving every day. This children aren't going to want to work when they get into the workforce yet they will gladly take the money.
If the student had a bladder infection then I would think there would’ve been some sort of complaint of symptoms a few days prior to her peeing herself…complaints that were maybe dismissed by the parent or ignored so as to not have to take time off work to check? It’s just typical of parents today to blame everything on the teachers! And by the way, it’s just as typical of students to lie and say they have to go to the restroom just to get out of class, so I get why the teacher said no; because she’s seeing this behavior day after day, month after month and so on!
At the end of the false semester, I had a kid barge into my classroom when I was wrapping up tutorials. This kid begged me to let him pass when he had been refusing to do all this work the whole year. I wanted to go and enjoy my winter vacation, but he would not leave my class. After five minutes of arguing, I decided to let him simply to carry on with my day under the condition that he try harder next semester. When I was walking out of the building, the assistant principal was cheering with him. In the spring semester, he slept the entire time.
These are crazy! I did ask to meet with my daughters 2nd grade teacher when I felt her homework was too much. But that was to come up with a reasonable solution. Not insist my kid be given an easy out. (My daughter is super-smart but struggles in one subject. It seemed better to spend a set amount of time helping her make progress than to have her up late in tears trying to finish something she didn’t understand.)
I was teaching math in a home schooling academy. I had one student who regularly didn't complete a certain set of assignments because, according to there mother, she didn't want to do them and the mother said she couldn't force her to (?????). The school director said I had to give her credit for them or she (the director) would go in and do it for me. I changed my grading, making those assignment "bonus assignments" so those students who did them got extra marks on their tests :)
That’s when I change my password. You will not undermine me. If they didn’t do the assignment it’s a zero. End of discussion. They are setting these kids up for failure in college. College professors will fail you for being 5 minutes late. They don’t play! Get your students ready!
Forced to apologize to parents when he told their kids not to steal. That's only outrageous if the kids WERE stealing, or even if there was decent evidence that they were. If they weren't stealing and there was no good reason to think that they were, then he/she should apologize.
Funding. If they don't do what parents want, they parents will take their "funding" elsewhere. Data. If children are failing, it looks bad for admin. The fear is very real, and our communities will suffer in the future because of their short-sighted nonsense.
I was told today I can’t give less than a 50 even if they don’t turn in their work. And it doesn’t matter if it’s past the due date. So basically due dates mean nothing and grades mean nothing because they can do nothing and still get a 50. They’re gonna miss work half the time, show up late and not get things done on time, and then wonder why they aren’t getting paid or why they got fired
That cracks me up, as our district requires us to have at least 2 grades per week, and 2-3 test grades per quarter (9 weeks). That's AT LEAST 18 grades a quarter, so if I were then told to only pick 2 assignments to give a kid a passing grade, I'd be asking why I'm then required to have all these other assignments for everyone else.
Seriously? That’s where we’re at now in education? Kids don’t do the assignments and the teacher is supposed to pass them anyways? If you didn’t do the assignment, then you get 0, nada, nein, zilch.
The only time I ever complained to the principle was when my youngest was in 3rd grade and asked could she use the restroom and was told "no...we had a bathroom break already and you should have gone then." How long she had to hold it I don't know, but she ended up peeing herself. No one even called to tell me. I had to take her home in wet pants and it was the dead of winter. The next morning she was peeing blood and I had to take off work and take her to the Dr. The pediatrician said she had a bladder infection probably caused by holding her urine too long. You can bet your ass I was PISSED!!! And I was in the office that very day. We had a wonderful principal who handled the situation immediately. I really wish she would have been let go though. NOBODY uses the bathroom on someone else's schedual and if I would have had to do that at work I'd have pissed myself 1000 times. Not to mention the Dr. Bills and prescription costs and the total humiliation she had to feel from wetting herself at school...which the other kids would still bring up even in highschool.
@@lorannamoody7011 and that's What I consider it to be. I told the school if you ever deny my child using the bathroom again I will take you to court. And the fact that it followed her through 10th grade infuriated me. Her last 2 years of highschool she took early college classes so she was no longer at the highschool.
@@floralbouquets good for you. There many reasons a kid doesn’t use the bathroom during the few minutes they are given. Teachers who think kids will abuse bathroom at other times don’t understand classroom control. I taught forever and kids had various reasons for not going at allotted times. I’m sorry that happened to your daughter.
@@lorannamoody7011 thank you for understanding. My thought was maybe she didn't have to go at that time. You can't schedual body functions. However I did tell her to at least try when they are given a bathroom break. The teacher said she couldn't have the class disrupted all day by kids going to the restroom..but a third grader is only going to ask if they need to go.
I have had a number of coworkers tell me they never let students use the restroom during their classes; I don't know how they get away w/ it. We often have rules about not letting kids go the 1st or last 10 minutes of class, but even then I've been burnt by it. I told one student he needed to wait the 10 minutes, and a few minutes later he started walking to the door, because he had already wet himself. Come to find out he had some sort of bladder condition that hadn't been reported to the school; I ended up on the phone w/ mom about that one. I am the one who will tell a kid "hold on" (in middle school, sometimes they just want to go to get out of class, or because their friends are going, and I'm trying to minimize that), but then if they ask a 2nd time, I assume it's legit and let them go right away (which I also would've done w/ the student in the story, had he asked again; rule or no rule).
It's unbelievably worse & real. Teachers are holding back a lot. After I told a volunteer parent about an incident wherein I had to rescue an 8th grade substitute from, she said perhaps it time for you to leave teaching.
That first one is a slap in the face for the kid that struggles and worked his butt off for a passing grade all quarter.
Admin is scared of parents coming to the school to yell and cuss at them and threatening to sue them🙄.
But yea, it’s like school has lost its purpose. Kids go to school to prepare for the real world to survive as adults. How is letting kids pass by after not doing a lick of work and missing lots of days going to help them in the future?
When I said no to changing an already generous grade, the admin went behind my back and changed it himself secretly. Somehow. That's when I really began to get the picture.
That happened to me once, when one of my underperforming students was trying to get into a rigorous magnet high school. The counselors told me if she didn't pass my class she wouldn't get in, so I talked to her about what she needed to do to get her grade up (she did receive some SpEd services), but she did NOTHING. I reminded her again as the year came to a close; again NOTHING, so of course she failed my class. Surprise surprise! She ends up in the magnet high school at the beginning of the next year; how did THAT happen? The high school teacher of my same subject later told me how she saw the student's lack of performance, and was concerned about her not making it through their curriculum (students who fail at the magnet schools can be kicked out). Well by the end of the school year she was back in her neighborhood high school. I never did find out who changed her grade though.
This reminded me why I was hoping to win the lottery before winter break is over.
😂😂😂
During the 2020-21 school year we went to “mastery” grading. Basically an A is 80%+, a B is 60-79%, a C is 40-59% and a D is 20-39%. That was it for me. I quit at the end of the school year
What in the world??? You want your doctor or mechanic helping you with only a 60%?? I'd be walking out of the door right behind you!
Wow. Just wow. Mastery grading used to mean just what it sounds like.
Our state eliminated the state-wide end of year assessment that correlated with the CCSS.
Our state's mainstream students cd not pass it above a 54%.
We cd no longer blame students of color nor ESL pupils. So, we ended state testing.
Hence, our high school graduation rate rose fm 59.2% to 90.1%.
God help any student who moves to another state & has to perform on grade level at the primary, secondary, & higher edu level.
Our governor has his priorities.
Well, the fast-food 🍔 industry & theme parks are really huge in the state & educated people won't work behind those counters.
Wow!
I see why teachers are quitting at an alarming rate
i just left the profession
I retired ( at a cut in my pension) at 59. I had a great principal, but my department head, school department admin and state personnel were just too much to take any more.
@@Carolmaizy My principal, retired his replacement made a hard situation worse. I was so depressed I just quit in the middle of the school year
Sounds like nursing! 😂
@@sandracheeks1811 Sounds like engineering school. Except for these guys there's no such thing as normal vacation or any sort of appropriate resting time
😂😂😂I do, we do, you do…FU!!! 😂😂😂
Here's a brilliant idea for the admins that want me and every other teacher to change grades for certain students: how about you send us those requests in writing, and then we can send those requests to the superintendent and school board to see how they'll respond to you attempting to break state education codes to make you look good.
I am dumbfounded everytime I watch these.
Ya know I'm not just because I work in the school system. So this is like.... Yea.... lol
@@Tony29103 it's crazy though what some parents think is justified.
I’ve had to explain to so many educators how inaccessible turn and talks can be.
When you have a classroom of 26 trying to do turn and talk, it’s going to sound like a jumbled painful mass of sound to kiddos with sensory processing difficulties.
Kids with ADHD will not be able to focus at all. I couldn't in those situations. Chaos, there's no foreground sound separation with ADHD.
@@falconbritt5461 I know. I have ADHD.
They make teachers do it in meetings too. You always get grouped or partnered with the people you least want to be with and often it's an uncomfortable time. So I can see how the kids feel!
Smh admin asking teachers to have a turn & talk piece of the lesson plan when the kids are non-verbal.... Lord please grant those admin with some brain cells. Smh! 🤦🏼♀️
I lost it after the I do, you do, we do, “f” you. However I have had admin ask me at some point to do most of the things on that list.
Thank you so much for all the videos you put out. It's a constant reminder of why I shouldn't go back.
😂😂 thank you for the very real and yet sad laugh!
Loved the prayer.
"Give him the grade he would have received if the work was submitted."
How do you KNOW how they would've done if you don't see the work?!
Because we're supposed to use our ESP to grade performance 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ madness
@@fleurelise997 Everybody knows no work = no grade. I've learned that lesson many times over- the hard way (as a student).
@@saraflint2982 I'm agreeing with you. It's scary that you can be asked to assess what's not submitted to you. This kind of thing used to be the stuff of sitcoms or satire. Mad world 🤦🏽♀️
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My admin has told us this before; in 1 job, not only did they use THIS "explanation", but also tried to use the comparison to college, where you might not have any assignments throughout the semester, but just be graded on your final exam (I've taught middle school my entire career). Fortunately our state Ed. agency found out about it, and declared this type of grading policy to be illegal.
I can relate! One of these I could have written almost word for word!
My head objected to me reading a story to them just 5 minutes before lunch break and 10 minutes before the end of the day with their coats on and ready to go home. They adored me reading to them. It settled them down and calmed them. I was told I should have been 'teaching' right up until the last minute of each session. He moved my classroom nearer his office to monitor me and was always looking or coming in. And woe betide if I was sat at my desk, yet it was ok for his 'favourite' teachers to do that. I lived on eggshells the whole time although knew my students were learning. Then he introduced a new idea that we had to read to our children at the end of each week instead of letting them have their free treat session called Golden Time. They resented that they had to listen to me read for half hour instead of 5 or 10 minutes and miss out on the things they chose to do. I think he just didn't ever want us to have any down time at all with the kids, had to always be 'all singing and dancing' and on our toes. Im so glad I left teaching. I used to love it but became so miserable.
Only two to share...sorry haven't sought out where to submit...Admin told me not 'to worry' about 2 HS students who fought in the hall infrastructure of my classroom...resulting in broken glass when elbows and arms went through it causing blood everywhere and stitches to one. They played in the football game that night!!! Student with lots of 'issues' was disrupting class EVERYDAY. Elicited others to help me contact adult of record (very small town) when all calls were ignored. Principal decides a conference was in order. Disinterested Adult attends,...comments that "Ya'll just gonna have to get along..." I proceeded to explain my views on teacher/student relations in the classroom. I was reprimanded and the student continued to do as 'they' pleased!!
Admin told me that if I was more engaging, then maybe I would not have any behavior problems. I have 10 major behaviors. I'm my class. admin always finds a way to make it my fault. Yes I'm leaving this profession in June.
This gentleman is priceless.
I'm a simple man. I see a new Mr. Mack video I click it
The things that most people see as failures are the steps to success.
Let the kid fail. Yes, fail! Some kids and their parents need a Come to Jesus Meeting! It’s a great life lesson.
I think like everything else, it comes down economics. If kids are allowed to fail then the school has to offer summer school for high schoolers or hold back for elementary kids
Then don’t offer ANY summer school. Make them repeat the grade.
Yes! Kids have to learn that there’s consequences for their actions and parents need to teach them that.
Kids today are getting away with too many ridiculous stuff and it’s not gonna help them in the future when it’s time for them to be adults and be on their own.
I had a student who never came in and had a 0%. I had another student who pulled it together midquarter, and earned a cumulative 37%. My admin said we could pass kids or give them a 60. The district said nothing under a 50%, but anything above was fine. I wanted to give the 0 a 50, and the 37 a 64%. The one who legit tried and came to get extra help, I wanted to give the highest f possible to make it easiest to pull it up with clear communication that they grade had not quite been earned, but I was helping as much as I could, but he had not passed. But I was forced to either pass him or give him the same grade as the 0% or the principal would change it for us and write us up (or make our lives 'fun' because her policy was against district policy)
Reminds me of a college professor who gave a student a failing grade. He earned the F. Administration ordered him to give a passing grade to this good basketball player since the school was in the state basketball finals. Professor REFUSED. YEAH
Your prayer 🤣🤣🤣 Yas Lord
At this point why teach at all if we’re just going to keep allowing kids to get Away with not doing any work
Babysitting service so parents can work.
You need more parents like my daughter. She got a call from her child's teacher reporting that the child was cussing and using racial slurs in the classroom. She told the mother that is the behavior continued that would have to refer the child. Mom responded "Go ahead refer him, take back control of your classroom." If more parents were like this, you teachers would not have as many problems.
This one is the BEST
"Dear parents, I'm sorry your little heathens are such enormous theives."
This is all TRUE 💯
In my 24 years of teaching, we only failed about 6 kids. They failed because they didn't do the work. At all. Any kid who made a decent attempt at it received at worst, a D. If you got an F, you seriously earned it.
Three days out of 5, the admin turned me into a mental health counselor without a license, training, nor credentials.
A student complained that showing her the weekly mental health video line up made her want to kill herself.
So, I sent her to guidance & admin dropped in for a visit & told me not to reinforce reflection feedback fm students but continue showing the depressing videos.
The rest of the week was spent administering the individual timed readings, i.e., Dibels to 27 students per period.
So, since I wasn't teaching, which is what I was hired to do, I quit.
He went and prayed
You are amazing- stop - no don’t!
I love the rain and blossom part 🙂
When I was in school A=90%,B=80%,C=70%,D=60%. What's wrong with it staying like this?
You have not discussed “free range children”. Yes, you heard me….”free range children”.
I said, "No..." I was fired
My admin changed the grade behind my back after I said no. Then I really began to get the picture. I don't teach anymore.
We're you transferred or not invite you back to the school because they can't fire you without a hearing?
Funny, one of our premier principals was fired for changing the grades of athletes but most teachers are forced to change grades for ghost students who are no shows the entire school year, 🤔.
We are NOT THEIR FRIENDS.
“Being their friend.” Something very similar happened to me my first year teaching. I was actually taking over a class where the teacher quit. The class was always out of control, but they were slowly getting better. One day, I got a new student, and he disrupted the class constantly. One day, he came in and immediately started a fist fight with another student. I sent him to the office. An admin came to my room, bringing the student back and said to me, “It looks like the teacher and the student have clashing personalities.”
Right…the reason this student started a fist fight 2 minutes before the morning bell rang, before I could even say “hello” is because I have an unlikeable personality.
Actually, you could follow through on the admin’s orders about giving the student the grade he would have gotten has he done the work. He would have gotten an F based on past grades, so give him an F on all those unturned assignments because that’s what he would’ve earned and then he will still get an F for the class.
No wonder why kids are the way they are. Feeling so entitled and that everything should be handed to them. This is just like my ex and how he gives his teenage children allowance for surviving every day. This children aren't going to want to work when they get into the workforce yet they will gladly take the money.
It’s already started unfortunately
Cheese and rice... how bout not giving them a passing grade if they didn't do the work!?
Same in Australia regarding calling Police
If the student had a bladder infection then I would think there would’ve been some sort of complaint of symptoms a few days prior to her peeing herself…complaints that were maybe dismissed by the parent or ignored so as to not have to take time off work to check? It’s just typical of parents today to blame everything on the teachers! And by the way, it’s just as typical of students to lie and say they have to go to the restroom just to get out of class, so I get why the teacher said no; because she’s seeing this behavior day after day, month after month and so on!
At the end of the false semester, I had a kid barge into my classroom when I was wrapping up tutorials. This kid begged me to let him pass when he had been refusing to do all this work the whole year. I wanted to go and enjoy my winter vacation, but he would not leave my class. After five minutes of arguing, I decided to let him simply to carry on with my day under the condition that he try harder next semester. When I was walking out of the building, the assistant principal was cheering with him. In the spring semester, he slept the entire time.
Why come I can't find part 2 and part 4?
These are crazy! I did ask to meet with my daughters 2nd grade teacher when I felt her homework was too much. But that was to come up with a reasonable solution. Not insist my kid be given an easy out. (My daughter is super-smart but struggles in one subject. It seemed better to spend a set amount of time helping her make progress than to have her up late in tears trying to finish something she didn’t understand.)
I was teaching math in a home schooling academy. I had one student who regularly didn't complete a certain set of assignments because, according to there mother, she didn't want to do them and the mother said she couldn't force her to (?????). The school director said I had to give her credit for them or she (the director) would go in and do it for me. I changed my grading, making those assignment "bonus assignments" so those students who did them got extra marks on their tests :)
That’s when I change my password. You will not undermine me. If they didn’t do the assignment it’s a zero. End of discussion. They are setting these kids up for failure in college. College professors will fail you for being 5 minutes late. They don’t play! Get your students ready!
These are crazy...
Forced to apologize to parents when he told their kids not to steal. That's only outrageous if the kids WERE stealing, or even if there was decent evidence that they were. If they weren't stealing and there was no good reason to think that they were, then he/she should apologize.
Er sir, I don't have my homework today, cause my teacher ate it.
Sometimes you wonder if parents have incriminating intel on admins or sth. Why so fearful?
Funding. If they don't do what parents want, they parents will take their "funding" elsewhere. Data. If children are failing, it looks bad for admin. The fear is very real, and our communities will suffer in the future because of their short-sighted nonsense.
@@HomeEcSewing Well said! It's a terrible situation indeed.
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I was told today I can’t give less than a 50 even if they don’t turn in their work. And it doesn’t matter if it’s past the due date. So basically due dates mean nothing and grades mean nothing because they can do nothing and still get a 50. They’re gonna miss work half the time, show up late and not get things done on time, and then wonder why they aren’t getting paid or why they got fired
Oh simple for the must haves. One big ass paper, and the final. If she can do them she deserves to pass lol.
That cracks me up, as our district requires us to have at least 2 grades per week, and 2-3 test grades per quarter (9 weeks). That's AT LEAST 18 grades a quarter, so if I were then told to only pick 2 assignments to give a kid a passing grade, I'd be asking why I'm then required to have all these other assignments for everyone else.
Amazing. This is why I could never teach K-12.
I had a kid not come the entire fourth quarter. I was told to pass them….with a 70. Sad part. We have take home devices.
Seriously? That’s where we’re at now in education? Kids don’t do the assignments and the teacher is supposed to pass them anyways? If you didn’t do the assignment, then you get 0, nada, nein, zilch.
Teachers can no longer give 0s nor Fs because it undermines students' self esteem & how they feel about themselves & their future.
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😂😂😂 I'm laughing because you're funny, but also at how rediculous this is smh...
Your funny
Please tell these people no
I was told to film videos, at least 3 minutes long, so the kids will have something fun to do on weekends. 😮😮😮not a chance. I quit. The end.
The only time I ever complained to the principle was when my youngest was in 3rd grade and asked could she use the restroom and was told "no...we had a bathroom break already and you should have gone then." How long she had to hold it I don't know, but she ended up peeing herself. No one even called to tell me. I had to take her home in wet pants and it was the dead of winter. The next morning she was peeing blood and I had to take off work and take her to the Dr. The pediatrician said she had a bladder infection probably caused by holding her urine too long. You can bet your ass I was PISSED!!! And I was in the office that very day. We had a wonderful principal who handled the situation immediately. I really wish she would have been let go though. NOBODY uses the bathroom on someone else's schedual and if I would have had to do that at work I'd have pissed myself 1000 times. Not to mention the Dr. Bills and prescription costs and the total humiliation she had to feel from wetting herself at school...which the other kids would still bring up even in highschool.
In most schools not letting a student go to bathroom is considered child abuse.
@@lorannamoody7011 and that's What I consider it to be. I told the school if you ever deny my child using the bathroom again I will take you to court. And the fact that it followed her through 10th grade infuriated me. Her last 2 years of highschool she took early college classes so she was no longer at the highschool.
@@floralbouquets good for you. There many reasons a kid doesn’t use the bathroom during the few minutes they are given. Teachers who think kids will abuse bathroom at other times don’t understand classroom control. I taught forever and kids had various reasons for not going at allotted times. I’m sorry that happened to your daughter.
@@lorannamoody7011 thank you for understanding. My thought was maybe she didn't have to go at that time. You can't schedual body functions. However I did tell her to at least try when they are given a bathroom break. The teacher said she couldn't have the class disrupted all day by kids going to the restroom..but a third grader is only going to ask if they need to go.
I have had a number of coworkers tell me they never let students use the restroom during their classes; I don't know how they get away w/ it. We often have rules about not letting kids go the 1st or last 10 minutes of class, but even then I've been burnt by it. I told one student he needed to wait the 10 minutes, and a few minutes later he started walking to the door, because he had already wet himself. Come to find out he had some sort of bladder condition that hadn't been reported to the school; I ended up on the phone w/ mom about that one. I am the one who will tell a kid "hold on" (in middle school, sometimes they just want to go to get out of class, or because their friends are going, and I'm trying to minimize that), but then if they ask a 2nd time, I assume it's legit and let them go right away (which I also would've done w/ the student in the story, had he asked again; rule or no rule).
…and this is why China is kicking our butts in education. (Funny, not funny).😂😢😂😢
Then that is not fair to the students who do their work and put in the effort to get good grades!!’n
Come on now. Please tell me that these are made up. The one at the end just can't be real @ 3:00. I hope it's not real.
It's unbelievably worse & real. Teachers are holding back a lot.
After I told a volunteer parent about an incident wherein I had to rescue an 8th grade substitute from, she said perhaps it time for you to leave teaching.