Teacher corrects kids' work and the entire class sees corrections

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are the kids? I don't understand what is being done. Are they hanging up their work? Reviewing it in front of everyone and saying "Eliza did this wrong"?

They're 2nd graders. Essentially, yes, this is what is happening. As a class, the kids get on the website and review each other's answers,what they did well, and what they didn't do well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, OP. You are paying reeealllly close attention to this. Really, really close attention. Isn't there something else you can do with your time? Your kid is fine.

Is there not something better you could do with your time? Without all of the relevant background information, I don't see how you can make such an abrasive comment. Life is not fair. My kid knows that. She's also learning there will always be people like you, people who just haven't figured out how to disagree respectfully. I haven't asked for special treatment. My kid is one of the favored kids, if you must know. It's so blatantly biased that it needs to be addressed.

For the person who mentioned experiencing the same thing in another country, thank you. The teacher is not Amercan-trained, and I've tried to understand how/why she does things the way she does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not about fair. It's about sharing student info that is no one else's business. Are you okay with your child's entire class along with their parents knowing your kids every grade?

Yup. I was humiliated every week of tenth grade after our spelling tests when the scores were announced. Everyone except I got an A or a high B. I usually got a D. I really studied. Every week. I still can't spell but even then I knew that well presented work mattered. I was an excellent student with an issue that wasn't anyone's business and it was mortifying to hear about my failure out loud. Every week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are the kids? I don't understand what is being done. Are they hanging up their work? Reviewing it in front of everyone and saying "Eliza did this wrong"?

They're 2nd graders. Essentially, yes, this is what is happening. As a class, the kids get on the website and review each other's answers,what they did well, and what they didn't do well.

It sounds like the intent is to work collaboratively, and to help children learn from one another.

It may be that the teacher has favorites, or that some kids grasp the concepts more readily than others, but it doesn't sound like the teacher is affirmatively singling out students for criticism in front of other students (just wait, some teachers in middle and high school do exactly that). I don't think I'd attack the process in this case, but maybe just look for other ways to work with my child and let her know you think she's great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are the kids? I don't understand what is being done. Are they hanging up their work? Reviewing it in front of everyone and saying "Eliza did this wrong"?

They're 2nd graders. Essentially, yes, this is what is happening. As a class, the kids get on the website and review each other's answers,what they did well, and what they didn't do well.

Are you sure it is the second graders reviewing the online comments? Or is it the moms? It sounds like kids parroting moms, not kids logging themselves on, searching for their friends scores just to rib them. I know my second graders never got online without an adult or older sibling helping, including my current second grader.

[Anonymous]

OP, 2nd grade teachers don't edit for things like run on sentences. Second grade writing is about getting the kids used to producing writing, even if there are errors. They start correcting for those things in third grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not about fair. It's about sharing student info that is no one else's business. Are you okay with your child's entire class along with their parents knowing your kids every grade?

Yup. I was humiliated every week of tenth grade after our spelling tests when the scores were announced. Everyone except I got an A or a high B. I usually got a D. I really studied. Every week. I still can't spell but even then I knew that well presented work mattered. I was an excellent student with an issue that wasn't anyone's business and it was mortifying to hear about my failure out loud. Every week.

Part of the problem here was spelling tests in 10th grade. What kind of school was this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are the kids? I don't understand what is being done. Are they hanging up their work? Reviewing it in front of everyone and saying "Eliza did this wrong"?

They're 2nd graders. Essentially, yes, this is what is happening. As a class, the kids get on the website and review each other's answers,what they did well, and what they didn't do well.

Think about it - if your child's work was the shining example, would you even have cared about this situation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are the kids? I don't understand what is being done. Are they hanging up their work? Reviewing it in front of everyone and saying "Eliza did this wrong"?

They're 2nd graders. Essentially, yes, this is what is happening. As a class, the kids get on the website and review each other's answers,what they did well, and what they didn't do well.

Think about it - if your child's work was the shining example, would you even have cared about this situation?

My kid's work is the shining example. Her best friend is one of the kids who seem to take the brunt of the criticism, despite the fact that she's a really good kid! Yes, I do care.

[Anonymous]

OP maybe put this energy in helping snowflake make fewer mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, 2nd grade teachers don't edit for things like run on sentences. Second grade writing is about getting the kids used to producing writing, even if there are errors. They start correcting for those things in third grade

My child's teacher does. I'm sure they will continue to edit in the third grade, as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP maybe put this energy in helping snowflake make fewer mistakes.

Perhaps you should read all off the comments before being obnoxious. Some of you people are rabid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are the kids? I don't understand what is being done. Are they hanging up their work? Reviewing it in front of everyone and saying "Eliza did this wrong"?

They're 2nd graders. Essentially, yes, this is what is happening. As a class, the kids get on the website and review each other's answers,what they did well, and what they didn't do well.

Are you sure it is the second graders reviewing the online comments? Or is it the moms? It sounds like kids parroting moms, not kids logging themselves on, searching for their friends scores just to rib them. I know my second graders never got online without an adult or older sibling helping, including my current second grader.

Yes, they review online, in class, together, as part of thieir language arts.

Thank you to those who responded in a civilized manner, both in support of and not in support of they process. I appreciate your honesty. Much of this thread is too combative for me so I'll bow out.

[Anonymous]

OP, they can learn from each others mistakes.

I don't understand her reason for posting grades and comments for everyone to see though. Discussing it in class has it's usefulness. Posting it online? Maybe not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh, OP. You are paying reeealllly close attention to this. Really, really close attention. Isn't there something else you can do with your time? Your kid is fine.

Is there not something better you could do with your time? Without all of the relevant background information, I don't see how you can make such an abrasive comment. Life is not fair. My kid knows that. She's also learning there will always be people like you, people who just haven't figured out how to disagree respectfully. I haven't asked for special treatment. My kid is one of the favored kids, if you must know. It's so blatantly biased that it needs to be addressed.

For the person who mentioned experiencing the same thing in another country, thank you. The teacher is not Amercan-trained, and I've tried to understand how/why she does things the way she does.

I'm the poster from another country. The idea of student privacy of their grades and effort etc is much less present outside the U.S. So it may not even occur to the teacher that that's expected here. If it's done right and without emphasis on the shame but with emphasis on what kinds of mistakes can and were made and how to learn from that it can be an effective technique. It's just hard to apply here especially in a competitive environment where the concept is that every kid is competing with all the other kids instead of every kid in the class working together to get the whole class to be better. In my country ES kids were all in the same class cohort for grades 1-8 so you knew those kids really well and you compete with the other same grade level classes for many years and it was class pride to get everyone to do well so peer pressure worked towards that. It definitely wasn't all pretty all the time and there were kids who were hurt by this but it made sense overall and made the bonds between students that much stronger.