WWYD: math teacher with strange grading policies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wtf that’s insane. Yeah I would be going to see the principal in person tomorrow. The teacher is obviously a complete idiot and needs to be literally fired. Who knows what other crazy stuff is happening in his classes!!

Agree. This is wild and shouldn’t be happening

[Anonymous]

Name the school, OP. You very much sound like a troll, especially since you are not naming the school.

[Anonymous]

Complain to the principal, stat. There are plenty of wackjob teachers, so I don’t doubt your kid’s story one bit.

[Anonymous]

I agree it's fake, unless the school is named.

If real, get a lawyer and contact the school board. This is way beyond the principal now. What you are describing is batshat insane.

[Anonymous]

Troll. There is now way that a suburban DC school where anyone can sign up for advanced math has only one teacher who teaches all the A2/pre cal/calc classes.

[Anonymous]

9th grader? Who isn't asking for you to butt in, but rather specifically is asking for you to stay out of it? And health and safety isn't on the line?

"Okay, honey, I trust you to handle it. If you need me, I'm here, let me know."

Don't snowplow this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:9th grader? Who isn't asking for you to butt in, but rather specifically is asking for you to stay out of it? And health and safety isn't on the line?

"Okay, honey, I trust you to handle it. If you need me, I'm here, let me know."

Don't snowplow this.

OP, you can be like this, or you can be an adult and a parent and support your child when he is being abused in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t even make sense. Why is his grade based off of another students test?

Could be because the tests are supposed to be team projects because the teacher *wants* the incompetent kids to cheat off the competent kids, so the grades are higher and everyone looks better

[Anonymous]

In some collaborative math cultures, people are expected to work jointly on problem sets. This encourages them to help one another and facilitates learning. The stronger students benefit from having to explain the math, the weaker students learn from the stronger students. I guess this teacher wants to take this idea to the extreme, making them each responsible for helping their partner learn the math required to do well on math tests. But this approach has gone too far, clearly. You need to speak up if this is in fact real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a fake story.

You're pondering this now, in March, when the school year is more than half over?

At some MCPS HSs, student schedules/teachers change every semester. Interims were this week. Maybe OP wasn't fully aware until now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:9th grader? Who isn't asking for you to butt in, but rather specifically is asking for you to stay out of it? And health and safety isn't on the line?

"Okay, honey, I trust you to handle it. If you need me, I'm here, let me know."

Don't snowplow this.

More OP trolls, lame.

[Anonymous]

Do what my husband always does! Nothing.

He’s too busy mismanaging his office work too.

[Anonymous]

You could make an argument for team testing. But this system seems way too convoluted (if true). Confirm every detail, then go to the principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could make an argument for team testing. But this system seems way too convoluted (if true). Confirm every detail, then go to the principal.

No, you could not make a sensible argument for team testing in high school math. It’s insane. What the heck.

[Anonymous]

Still waiting to find out what school this is...