Teacher only writes “elite” students college recommendations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges should demand SAT scores, AP scores and other metrics of impartial and quantifiable appraisal. AND they should not need college recommendations.

Teacher recommendations are biased and racist.

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Anonymous wrote:So how are B+ or even average students to obtain recommendations? You can ask the students to prepare a list of accomplishments, and I’m sure you have a template for recommendations. Ridiculous to try to put forward the notion that you are drafting each recommendation from scratch. Do your job.

I DO draft each rec from scratch. They are very clear that this is what is needed: detailed, show that you know the student, not cut-and-paste. A neutral or cut-and-paste letter of rec is not useful at best, damning at worst. You really don’t know how this works.

Teachers should be obliged to write recommendations for even mediocre or poor students.

Why, exactly? It dilutes credibility for the teacher and for the high school.

What does such a rec look like?

"Larla demonstrates the ability to be in class on time. Larla turns in most work in a satisfactory manner." Damning with faint praise.

But that is actually perfectly FINE for a lot of kids applying to a lot of non-competitive colleges. You really don't need to spend an hour for a recommendation for a kid with Cs applying to Towson. But that kid does need a recommendation of some sort, even one that is relatively generic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges should demand SAT scores, AP scores and other metrics of impartial and quantifiable appraisal. AND they should not need college recommendations.

Teacher recommendations are biased and racist.

Seriously? Then so is any boss or college professor recommendation too. What a weird comment to make with no evidence to back it up. Go touch grass and let teachers do their job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colleges should demand SAT scores, AP scores and other metrics of impartial and quantifiable appraisal. AND they should not need college recommendations.

Teacher recommendations are biased and racist.

Seriously? Then so is any boss or college professor recommendation too. What a weird comment to make with no evidence to back it up. Go touch grass and let teachers do their job.

You must be very privileged. https://www.chronicle.com/article/teaching-evaluations-are-racist-sexist-and-often-useless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colleges should demand SAT scores, AP scores and other metrics of impartial and quantifiable appraisal. AND they should not need college recommendations.

Teacher recommendations are biased and racist.

Seriously? Then so is any boss or college professor recommendation too. What a weird comment to make with no evidence to back it up. Go touch grass and let teachers do their job.

You must be very privileged. https://www.chronicle.com/article/teaching-evaluations-are-racist-sexist-and-often-useless

If you want to make a proper argument, don’t include sieges behind a paywall that are opinion pieces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges should demand SAT scores, AP scores and other metrics of impartial and quantifiable appraisal. AND they should not need college recommendations.

Teacher recommendations are biased and racist.

Liberal much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colleges should demand SAT scores, AP scores and other metrics of impartial and quantifiable appraisal. AND they should not need college recommendations.

Teacher recommendations are biased and racist.

Seriously? Then so is any boss or college professor recommendation too. What a weird comment to make with no evidence to back it up. Go touch grass and let teachers do their job.

You must be very privileged. https://www.chronicle.com/article/teaching-evaluations-are-racist-sexist-and-often-useless

This article is about college students making biased comments about faculty in course evaluations, not the other way around.