known bad teacher

[Anonymous]

I’m glad my kid’s not over there….yikes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At first I got into all this tutoring for As. Then I realized private school and other students could help kid learn. Kid needed to take the initiative. A little bumpy but so, so much better. Let the high schoolers know they can manage academic difficulty.

If your kid is failing or really struggling across the board you might need to step in. But at high school level the kid owns the grades.

Sure fine. It’s relative.

Just know that at SFS and GDS there is tons of tutoring and parents helping with homework.

My coworkers kid was top of class and every discussion was how did he get through all the material and get As with no tutoring.

Answer: his stem Phd parents (from overseas where everyone does stem), basically relived high school with him, helping him through the work and concepts. Got him into an Ivy and then focused on the younger sib the same way.

My sons are way smarter than me! And that started by middle school. Lol. I am no dummy. I have a graduate degree in STEM too. But, especially my older son, my kids are on an entirely different level. Frankly, I'm too old to remember a lot of what they are learning as well.

I am not reliving my high school. Spouse and I are the parents that have no idea what Canvas is and never had kids open it. But, we are very lucky that they both were always self-motivated with no learning difficulties. And, I credit their elementary school Principal who none of us liked at the time for getting the kids self-sufficient and self advocating at a very young age.

So do you have a teen at one of these schools? Do they have time for 3 hours of homework a night for As, A-, and B+s? Or time for 4-5 hours a night for mainly As? In v tough classes of 6-8 overachievers all in the same robotics club applying to the same colleges, programs and majors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At first I got into all this tutoring for As. Then I realized private school and other students could help kid learn. Kid needed to take the initiative. A little bumpy but so, so much better. Let the high schoolers know they can manage academic difficulty.

If your kid is failing or really struggling across the board you might need to step in. But at high school level the kid owns the grades.

My kids always owned their grades. We never did tutors, quite frankly because the only kids that used tutors when my husband and I were growing up were the kids that were failing/falling behind. The rest of us powered through, tried to get extra help at office hours.

We soon realized in accelerated middle school math our kids were only a few that did NOT have a tutor.

I think you are making the assumption people are talking about tutors. The start of this thread was about an outlier, particularly known 'bad' teacher. In those instances, anyways, tutor isn't even helpful. If they aren't clear and nobody can understand what they are asking for and they aren't even sure themselves, all the tutoring hours in the world aren't going to help on tests. You just got a bad apple.

We realized this too. Tons of parents had math tutors since K so their child was ahead and had more confidence. Plus they knew the progressive schools didn’t drill or do enough reps of basic math to get fluent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At first I got into all this tutoring for As. Then I realized private school and other students could help kid learn. Kid needed to take the initiative. A little bumpy but so, so much better. Let the high schoolers know they can manage academic difficulty.

If your kid is failing or really struggling across the board you might need to step in. But at high school level the kid owns the grades.

Sure fine. It’s relative.

Just know that at SFS and GDS there is tons of tutoring and parents helping with homework.

My coworkers kid was top of class and every discussion was how did he get through all the material and get As with no tutoring.

Answer: his stem Phd parents (from overseas where everyone does stem), basically relived high school with him, helping him through the work and concepts. Got him into an Ivy and then focused on the younger sib the same way.

My sons are way smarter than me! And that started by middle school. Lol. I am no dummy. I have a graduate degree in STEM too. But, especially my older son, my kids are on an entirely different level. Frankly, I'm too old to remember a lot of what they are learning as well.

I am not reliving my high school. Spouse and I are the parents that have no idea what Canvas is and never had kids open it. But, we are very lucky that they both were always self-motivated with no learning difficulties. And, I credit their elementary school Principal who none of us liked at the time for getting the kids self-sufficient and self advocating at a very young age.

So do you have a teen at one of these schools? Do they have time for 3 hours of homework a night for As, A-, and B+s? Or time for 4-5 hours a night for mainly As? In v tough classes of 6-8 overachievers all in the same robotics club applying to the same colleges, programs and majors?

Yes. With three hours of sports practice and traveling to sporting events on the weekend. They seem to take much less time than most other kids to get the same amount of work/reading;/studying done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At first I got into all this tutoring for As. Then I realized private school and other students could help kid learn. Kid needed to take the initiative. A little bumpy but so, so much better. Let the high schoolers know they can manage academic difficulty.

If your kid is failing or really struggling across the board you might need to step in. But at high school level the kid owns the grades.

Sure fine. It’s relative.

Just know that at SFS and GDS there is tons of tutoring and parents helping with homework.

My coworkers kid was top of class and every discussion was how did he get through all the material and get As with no tutoring.

Answer: his stem Phd parents (from overseas where everyone does stem), basically relived high school with him, helping him through the work and concepts. Got him into an Ivy and then focused on the younger sib the same way.

My sons are way smarter than me! And that started by middle school. Lol. I am no dummy. I have a graduate degree in STEM too. But, especially my older son, my kids are on an entirely different level. Frankly, I'm too old to remember a lot of what they are learning as well.

I am not reliving my high school. Spouse and I are the parents that have no idea what Canvas is and never had kids open it. But, we are very lucky that they both were always self-motivated with no learning difficulties. And, I credit their elementary school Principal who none of us liked at the time for getting the kids self-sufficient and self advocating at a very young age.

So do you have a teen at one of these schools? Do they have time for 3 hours of homework a night for As, A-, and B+s? Or time for 4-5 hours a night for mainly As? In v tough classes of 6-8 overachievers all in the same robotics club applying to the same colleges, programs and majors?

Yes. With three hours of sports practice and traveling to sporting events on the weekend. They seem to take much less time than most other kids to get the same amount of work/reading;/studying done.

That's true for some people. My friends would complain their kids in the same classes had hours and hours of homework and my kids weren't spending hours and hours and hours--but still getting As. I see it in co-workers too. Some people process and produce at a much faster rate than others. Having a quick processing speed and a very good memory is key.

[Anonymous]

Thread wandered off a bit when a poster declared that a bad teacher gave the A child bad grades. That called for a tutor.

My kid is at St Anselms and there are definitely some GPA crushing teachers in the upper school. Workload high, stress high. My experience however is that the kids have lots of material from which to learn. I just can’t call them bad teachers.

[Anonymous]

My DD who is now in college had a K teacher who basically hated children. No idea why she was teaching. all the parents complained. Guess what? She's still there!