hs teacher problems

[Anonymous]

But isn’t that why you signed up for a big 3- to be pushed towards excellence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt that across all 4 years, he will consistently get the hard teachers and others will get the easy teachers. It's far more likely that he will get a mix, which evens out. When he does have hard teachers, it's an opportunity to learn to work hard and to see teachers outside of class for questions/classifications.

If only that were true. It is completely possible to get the same teacher multiple years in certain subjects at certain schools. My HS student has repeat teachers in history, math, English, language and science. In more than half of those instances the teachers are notoriously difficult graders. It’s not perception, the kids talk.

[Anonymous]

My kid is on the 3rd year with the same math teacher and the 2nd year with the same English teacher at a Big3 high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ds is at big 3 and is super stressed that other kids are doing better than him because some kids got the super easy teachers and he has the really hard ones? what strategies do you have for a kid like this?

If you make a big sink you can switch classes.

Ha - well, this is not true unless you are a big donor or otherwise a person they wish to appease. But you need to help your kid reframe this "unfairness" etc. as there are at least 15 other kids with the same teacher. The kid needs to advocate for themselves, not just once or twice or for a month until it gets better. Go to office hours. If something was unfairly graded from his perspective, ask about it. My child was convinced the teacher and tests were an issue in math -- he consistently was getting in the 70s on his assessments in the mid-level track. He thought many students were and confronted his teacher about it. The teacher had turned off the students' ability to view the distribution of grades on their LMS (I think at the directions of the school) to protect kids from knowing they were outliers. In this case, the teacher showed my child the distribution of grades -- what an eye-opener. He was the ONE student in the 70s. The teacher pointed out that more than one student, from a class of less than 20, earned above 95%. About 1/3 earned in the 90s and the rest in the 80s. Despite hard work, my kid was consistently the worst which was a him problem, not a teacher problem.

flat out do not buy this