Well, I wouldn't them "strong". Quite a few so-called "gifted and talented" have tutors across the board. So they are not using their brains exactly, they are not THAT smart, more like coached well. |
Dear parents: Stop coddling your children. Stop telling them that if they get bad grades, it must be the teacher's fault. Help them build the character they will need to work hard and be successful, not be whiny, lazy and living in your basement when they're 35. |
So teachers are criticized for grading too easily and too hard. And we wonder why there is a teacher shortage? |
Not really… colleges have adapted to the new generation of slackers. Lots of attendance grades and reading quizzes now because it’s the only way to get kids to do anything. |
Doesn't matter what you label them. As far as a teacher is concerned, whether coached or strong student, the work gets done and they usually receive a decent grade. |
Most of my son’s classes are 75% exams (midterms and finals). My DS said kids are asking professors for retakes because many of them have never taken cumulative midterms/finals and they are bombing them. |
Would you like to come in and model some lessons for us? |
I’d loooooove to see parents come in to model lessons. |
Agree! I teach elementary and sometimes I feel like I’m a one-woman circus with how much I’m trying to engage them in the lessons. But I can’t compete against a PS5 and YouTube, so I lose. |
I agree, unfortunately. My kid is NOT dumb and has always been all As and all AP/Honors classes. This year there is an AP teacher who is just terrible. Assigns videos to learn the content. Says before tests that she made the test as hard as possible and there will be some tricks AS WELL as things she didn't teach. WTF? The class has had several tests where the entire class failed. Like, spectacularly failed. And she gave the entire class retakes. How is that teaching? The kids hate her. The parents hate her. And, she has single-handedly killed my child's love of the subject (a stem class where DC got an A in honors the year before). |
Well, parents aren't teachers. I don't have your education and experience. So that would be a dumb thing to wish for. |
LOL. A bad grade means they will live in my basement when they're 35? I hope you're not a teacher with that logic. |
Class Grade Distributions should be available. Current and past. Trends should be of interest, there for all to see, by class, by teacher. Obviously, not identifiable by student. There needs to be transparency ... Ms Jone's 5th period class has half the students failing. Gee, something's wrong. Could be student performance. Too often parents think, certainly someone ... Dept Head, Principal, someone is paying attention to class grade distributions, at least periodically. |
Parent here, and sorry but that's no excuse. Even if that's all true, sometimes in life there are annoying hoops and you just have to jump through them like a circus poodle to get to your goal. If you can't learn boring and rote things how are you going to deal with on-the-job training videos with quizzes at the end? |
To be fair, it's by different sets of parents. |