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Anonymous wrote:My child returned from being sick and had to immediately take a quiz that day with the class that they had been told when they were absent. My child explained to the teacher they had been sick and didn’t even know about the quiz. Didn’t matter. The teacher made them take it. They failed it. I guess the teacher felt sorry for my child and allowed them to retake it. But what a jerk making them take it in the first place and causing undue stress on my child.

Imagine being so addicted to outrage that even when the situation is corrected, you still need strangers to validate your tantrum. Your kid moved on faster than you did.

Are you a teacher or something? I can’t imagine getting this worked up about someone else’s experience and trying to invalidate them. I was asked about the details and answered. Some teachers are not compassionate after illnesses, that’s all. This was one example. I have others too.

DP. Former teacher here.

The teacher gave the child a make up quiz. What is the big deal?
The rest of the class was taking the quiz--maybe the quiz included a lot of earlier information he should have known, maybe not.

And, has PP ever told us how many days the kid was out? Was this an assigned quiz or a pop quiz?

Nevertheless, the child made up the quiz. What is the big deal?

There isn’t a big deal. And the PP was already asked how many days the kid was out and she didn’t respond. That’s telling.

The teacher already made allowances without even being asked to, and I’m guessing there’s a large part of this story the PP isn’t sharing (how many days out, that the test info was online, that this make-up procedure was already posted).

But let’s not pass on the opportunity to make this teacher into a “jerk” and then project that on all teachers!

It’s in the thread earlier. I did explain but don’t feel like repeating it to idiots.

So the teacher is a jerk and posters here are idiots.

You’ve lost the argument since you’ve resorted to juvenile name calling. You didn’t help your argument at all, did you?

There’s no argument, dummy. Just facts. lol.

Haha lady get a grip. Your kid was soo sick the entire weekend that they could log in to see an assignment but we're unable to do any work, but were 100% on Monday but shouldn't have been expected to do what every other student was even though you sent them to school. But wait they were allowed a retake anyway, and you are still this angry because your child was subjected to ... life??? Am I missing anything here?

That is correct. I made my child log in to see what they were missing but they were too sick to actually work. You can’t possibly understand that?

Understand that you clearly have issues if you are this enraged that a teacher still has a schedule and curriculum that they are adhering to while your little precious snowflake is out sick. They came back and weren't prepared what exactly do you expect? They were allowed a retake and yet here you are still complaining.

I have no problem with teachers sticking to their schedule. I do have a problem with teachers not following the sick policy when it comes to make up work. It seems you don’t agree. I hope my child doesn’t encounter you! You seem to be angry and lack compassion. Sad.

The teacher gave a make up quiz. Enough said.

Only after my child failed it. My child had explained their illness before the quiz and had asked if they could take it later and was told no. It was distressing. I think that’s wrong, especially after being sick 4 days straight (2 school days missed).

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Anonymous wrote:My child returned from being sick and had to immediately take a quiz that day with the class that they had been told when they were absent. My child explained to the teacher they had been sick and didn’t even know about the quiz. Didn’t matter. The teacher made them take it. They failed it. I guess the teacher felt sorry for my child and allowed them to retake it. But what a jerk making them take it in the first place and causing undue stress on my child.

Imagine being so addicted to outrage that even when the situation is corrected, you still need strangers to validate your tantrum. Your kid moved on faster than you did.

Are you a teacher or something? I can’t imagine getting this worked up about someone else’s experience and trying to invalidate them. I was asked about the details and answered. Some teachers are not compassionate after illnesses, that’s all. This was one example. I have others too.

DP. Former teacher here.

The teacher gave the child a make up quiz. What is the big deal?
The rest of the class was taking the quiz--maybe the quiz included a lot of earlier information he should have known, maybe not.

And, has PP ever told us how many days the kid was out? Was this an assigned quiz or a pop quiz?

Nevertheless, the child made up the quiz. What is the big deal?

There isn’t a big deal. And the PP was already asked how many days the kid was out and she didn’t respond. That’s telling.

The teacher already made allowances without even being asked to, and I’m guessing there’s a large part of this story the PP isn’t sharing (how many days out, that the test info was online, that this make-up procedure was already posted).

But let’s not pass on the opportunity to make this teacher into a “jerk” and then project that on all teachers!

It’s in the thread earlier. I did explain but don’t feel like repeating it to idiots.

So the teacher is a jerk and posters here are idiots.

You’ve lost the argument since you’ve resorted to juvenile name calling. You didn’t help your argument at all, did you?

There’s no argument, dummy. Just facts. lol.

Haha lady get a grip. Your kid was soo sick the entire weekend that they could log in to see an assignment but we're unable to do any work, but were 100% on Monday but shouldn't have been expected to do what every other student was even though you sent them to school. But wait they were allowed a retake anyway, and you are still this angry because your child was subjected to ... life??? Am I missing anything here?

That is correct. I made my child log in to see what they were missing but they were too sick to actually work. You can’t possibly understand that?

Understand that you clearly have issues if you are this enraged that a teacher still has a schedule and curriculum that they are adhering to while your little precious snowflake is out sick. They came back and weren't prepared what exactly do you expect? They were allowed a retake and yet here you are still complaining.

I have no problem with teachers sticking to their schedule. I do have a problem with teachers not following the sick policy when it comes to make up work. It seems you don’t agree. I hope my child doesn’t encounter you! You seem to be angry and lack compassion. Sad.

The teacher gave a make up quiz. Enough said.

Only after my child failed it. My child had explained their illness before the quiz and had asked if they could take it later and was told no. It was distressing. I think that’s wrong, especially after being sick 4 days straight (2 school days missed).

And, just maybe teacher thought he could succeed on the quiz because the information had been taught. But, teacher let "them" make it up. If child is that stressed out over something that "they" were allowed to retake, I think you have bigger fish to fry.

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Anonymous wrote:My child returned from being sick and had to immediately take a quiz that day with the class that they had been told when they were absent. My child explained to the teacher they had been sick and didn’t even know about the quiz. Didn’t matter. The teacher made them take it. They failed it. I guess the teacher felt sorry for my child and allowed them to retake it. But what a jerk making them take it in the first place and causing undue stress on my child.

Imagine being so addicted to outrage that even when the situation is corrected, you still need strangers to validate your tantrum. Your kid moved on faster than you did.

Are you a teacher or something? I can’t imagine getting this worked up about someone else’s experience and trying to invalidate them. I was asked about the details and answered. Some teachers are not compassionate after illnesses, that’s all. This was one example. I have others too.

DP. Former teacher here.

The teacher gave the child a make up quiz. What is the big deal?
The rest of the class was taking the quiz--maybe the quiz included a lot of earlier information he should have known, maybe not.

And, has PP ever told us how many days the kid was out? Was this an assigned quiz or a pop quiz?

Nevertheless, the child made up the quiz. What is the big deal?

There isn’t a big deal. And the PP was already asked how many days the kid was out and she didn’t respond. That’s telling.

The teacher already made allowances without even being asked to, and I’m guessing there’s a large part of this story the PP isn’t sharing (how many days out, that the test info was online, that this make-up procedure was already posted).

But let’s not pass on the opportunity to make this teacher into a “jerk” and then project that on all teachers!

It’s in the thread earlier. I did explain but don’t feel like repeating it to idiots.

So the teacher is a jerk and posters here are idiots.

You’ve lost the argument since you’ve resorted to juvenile name calling. You didn’t help your argument at all, did you?

There’s no argument, dummy. Just facts. lol.

Haha lady get a grip. Your kid was soo sick the entire weekend that they could log in to see an assignment but we're unable to do any work, but were 100% on Monday but shouldn't have been expected to do what every other student was even though you sent them to school. But wait they were allowed a retake anyway, and you are still this angry because your child was subjected to ... life??? Am I missing anything here?

That is correct. I made my child log in to see what they were missing but they were too sick to actually work. You can’t possibly understand that?

Understand that you clearly have issues if you are this enraged that a teacher still has a schedule and curriculum that they are adhering to while your little precious snowflake is out sick. They came back and weren't prepared what exactly do you expect? They were allowed a retake and yet here you are still complaining.

I have no problem with teachers sticking to their schedule. I do have a problem with teachers not following the sick policy when it comes to make up work. It seems you don’t agree. I hope my child doesn’t encounter you! You seem to be angry and lack compassion. Sad.

The teacher gave a make up quiz. Enough said.

Only after my child failed it. My child had explained their illness before the quiz and had asked if they could take it later and was told no. It was distressing. I think that’s wrong, especially after being sick 4 days straight (2 school days missed).

And, just maybe teacher thought he could succeed on the quiz because the information had been taught. But, teacher let "them" make it up. If child is that stressed out over something that "they" were allowed to retake, I think you have bigger fish to fry.

The information hadn’t been taught to my child and my child didn’t have the opportunity to catch up yet due to illness. It was literally reading a section, taking notes and then having a quiz on that section. The section had been read in the class my child missed due to illness and the homework was to finish it over the weekend. My child hadn’t had a chance to do any of the reading/notes due to illness. My child also didn’t know they would be allowed to retake it as it was a quiz. Generally quizzes aren’t allowed to be retaken. Again, the teacher put my child in a position to fail on their first day back from illness. Not cool. Thankfully the teacher realized that was not right and allowed my child to retake the quiz after catching up on the material. I don’t understand why you can’t accept this. Maybe you’re having trouble understanding why a teacher would do this in the first place. I sure did.

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Anonymous wrote:My child returned from being sick and had to immediately take a quiz that day with the class that they had been told when they were absent. My child explained to the teacher they had been sick and didn’t even know about the quiz. Didn’t matter. The teacher made them take it. They failed it. I guess the teacher felt sorry for my child and allowed them to retake it. But what a jerk making them take it in the first place and causing undue stress on my child.

Imagine being so addicted to outrage that even when the situation is corrected, you still need strangers to validate your tantrum. Your kid moved on faster than you did.

Are you a teacher or something? I can’t imagine getting this worked up about someone else’s experience and trying to invalidate them. I was asked about the details and answered. Some teachers are not compassionate after illnesses, that’s all. This was one example. I have others too.

DP. Former teacher here.

The teacher gave the child a make up quiz. What is the big deal?
The rest of the class was taking the quiz--maybe the quiz included a lot of earlier information he should have known, maybe not.

And, has PP ever told us how many days the kid was out? Was this an assigned quiz or a pop quiz?

Nevertheless, the child made up the quiz. What is the big deal?

There isn’t a big deal. And the PP was already asked how many days the kid was out and she didn’t respond. That’s telling.

The teacher already made allowances without even being asked to, and I’m guessing there’s a large part of this story the PP isn’t sharing (how many days out, that the test info was online, that this make-up procedure was already posted).

But let’s not pass on the opportunity to make this teacher into a “jerk” and then project that on all teachers!

It’s in the thread earlier. I did explain but don’t feel like repeating it to idiots.

So the teacher is a jerk and posters here are idiots.

You’ve lost the argument since you’ve resorted to juvenile name calling. You didn’t help your argument at all, did you?

There’s no argument, dummy. Just facts. lol.

Haha lady get a grip. Your kid was soo sick the entire weekend that they could log in to see an assignment but we're unable to do any work, but were 100% on Monday but shouldn't have been expected to do what every other student was even though you sent them to school. But wait they were allowed a retake anyway, and you are still this angry because your child was subjected to ... life??? Am I missing anything here?

That is correct. I made my child log in to see what they were missing but they were too sick to actually work. You can’t possibly understand that?

Understand that you clearly have issues if you are this enraged that a teacher still has a schedule and curriculum that they are adhering to while your little precious snowflake is out sick. They came back and weren't prepared what exactly do you expect? They were allowed a retake and yet here you are still complaining.

I have no problem with teachers sticking to their schedule. I do have a problem with teachers not following the sick policy when it comes to make up work. It seems you don’t agree. I hope my child doesn’t encounter you! You seem to be angry and lack compassion. Sad.

The teacher gave a make up quiz. Enough said.

Only after my child failed it. My child had explained their illness before the quiz and had asked if they could take it later and was told no. It was distressing. I think that’s wrong, especially after being sick 4 days straight (2 school days missed).

And, just maybe teacher thought he could succeed on the quiz because the information had been taught. But, teacher let "them" make it up. If child is that stressed out over something that "they" were allowed to retake, I think you have bigger fish to fry.

The information hadn’t been taught to my child and my child didn’t have the opportunity to catch up yet due to illness. It was literally reading a section, taking notes and then having a quiz on that section. The section had been read in the class my child missed due to illness and the homework was to finish it over the weekend. My child hadn’t had a chance to do any of the reading/notes due to illness. My child also didn’t know they would be allowed to retake it as it was a quiz. Generally quizzes aren’t allowed to be retaken. Again, the teacher put my child in a position to fail on their first day back from illness. Not cool. Thankfully the teacher realized that was not right and allowed my child to retake the quiz after catching up on the material. I don’t understand why you can’t accept this. Maybe you’re having trouble understanding why a teacher would do this in the first place. I sure did.

DP .

You aren’t getting sympathy because of your tone toward the teacher, who fixed the mistake without any difficulty. And calling her a “jerk” and saying she has no sympathy and compassion was an attack on her character. That’s WAY above what this situation calls for.

Let’s play with the idea that your version of the story is correct. Then teachers have 150 students, tight schedules, and they are holding down hundreds of moving parts simultaneously. Guess what? Teachers occasionally make mistakes and that is okay; this teacher immediately corrected hers. Your kid has clearly moved on, and now it’s your turn.

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Anonymous wrote:My child returned from being sick and had to immediately take a quiz that day with the class that they had been told when they were absent. My child explained to the teacher they had been sick and didn’t even know about the quiz. Didn’t matter. The teacher made them take it. They failed it. I guess the teacher felt sorry for my child and allowed them to retake it. But what a jerk making them take it in the first place and causing undue stress on my child.

Imagine being so addicted to outrage that even when the situation is corrected, you still need strangers to validate your tantrum. Your kid moved on faster than you did.

Are you a teacher or something? I can’t imagine getting this worked up about someone else’s experience and trying to invalidate them. I was asked about the details and answered. Some teachers are not compassionate after illnesses, that’s all. This was one example. I have others too.

DP. Former teacher here.

The teacher gave the child a make up quiz. What is the big deal?
The rest of the class was taking the quiz--maybe the quiz included a lot of earlier information he should have known, maybe not.

And, has PP ever told us how many days the kid was out? Was this an assigned quiz or a pop quiz?

Nevertheless, the child made up the quiz. What is the big deal?

There isn’t a big deal. And the PP was already asked how many days the kid was out and she didn’t respond. That’s telling.

The teacher already made allowances without even being asked to, and I’m guessing there’s a large part of this story the PP isn’t sharing (how many days out, that the test info was online, that this make-up procedure was already posted).

But let’s not pass on the opportunity to make this teacher into a “jerk” and then project that on all teachers!

It’s in the thread earlier. I did explain but don’t feel like repeating it to idiots.

So the teacher is a jerk and posters here are idiots.

You’ve lost the argument since you’ve resorted to juvenile name calling. You didn’t help your argument at all, did you?

There’s no argument, dummy. Just facts. lol.

Haha lady get a grip. Your kid was soo sick the entire weekend that they could log in to see an assignment but we're unable to do any work, but were 100% on Monday but shouldn't have been expected to do what every other student was even though you sent them to school. But wait they were allowed a retake anyway, and you are still this angry because your child was subjected to ... life??? Am I missing anything here?

That is correct. I made my child log in to see what they were missing but they were too sick to actually work. You can’t possibly understand that?

Understand that you clearly have issues if you are this enraged that a teacher still has a schedule and curriculum that they are adhering to while your little precious snowflake is out sick. They came back and weren't prepared what exactly do you expect? They were allowed a retake and yet here you are still complaining.

I have no problem with teachers sticking to their schedule. I do have a problem with teachers not following the sick policy when it comes to make up work. It seems you don’t agree. I hope my child doesn’t encounter you! You seem to be angry and lack compassion. Sad.

The teacher gave a make up quiz. Enough said.

Only after my child failed it. My child had explained their illness before the quiz and had asked if they could take it later and was told no. It was distressing. I think that’s wrong, especially after being sick 4 days straight (2 school days missed).

And, just maybe teacher thought he could succeed on the quiz because the information had been taught. But, teacher let "them" make it up. If child is that stressed out over something that "they" were allowed to retake, I think you have bigger fish to fry.

The information hadn’t been taught to my child and my child didn’t have the opportunity to catch up yet due to illness. It was literally reading a section, taking notes and then having a quiz on that section. The section had been read in the class my child missed due to illness and the homework was to finish it over the weekend. My child hadn’t had a chance to do any of the reading/notes due to illness. My child also didn’t know they would be allowed to retake it as it was a quiz. Generally quizzes aren’t allowed to be retaken. Again, the teacher put my child in a position to fail on their first day back from illness. Not cool. Thankfully the teacher realized that was not right and allowed my child to retake the quiz after catching up on the material. I don’t understand why you can’t accept this. Maybe you’re having trouble understanding why a teacher would do this in the first place. I sure did.

DP. The kid got to retake the quiz. There was ZERO harm done here. Your perseverating on it is bizarre.

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As I read the situation.

1) Child was out sick and didn’t have access to the work.
2) Child returned to school and took a quiz they were upreared for because the teacher told them to take the quiz even without access to the work.
3) Child was upset because the child was unrepared. This most likely caused some distress for the child, no idea how much.
4) Child failed the quiz
5) Teacher allowed a retake and the child did fine on it.

The parent is upset that the kid had to take the first quiz, because the kid had been out sick, didn’t have access to the material, and the kid was distressed at having failed a quiz. The parent is still worked up about this even though the kid took a make u and did fine. Or, alternatively, they posted this as an example of teachers not being perfect and their being annoyed that the teacher caused their kid some extra stress.

The parent can use this as a teaching tool for herself and her kid, people are not perfect but you took the make up and did fine. Maybe the teacher thought the student had access to the material and had looked at it. Maybe the teacher thought that the kid would be fine on the quiz and didn’t want the kid sitting there doing nothing while the rest of the class took the quiz. Maybe the teacher made a mistake. But, quizzes are part of the 10% of a grade and doing poorly on one is not going to sink your grade long term. And, in the long run, the kid retook the quiz and there was no harm done.

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Anonymous wrote:As I read the situation.

1) Child was out sick and didn’t have access to the work.
2) Child returned to school and took a quiz they were upreared for because the teacher told them to take the quiz even without access to the work.
3) Child was upset because the child was unrepared. This most likely caused some distress for the child, no idea how much.
4) Child failed the quiz
5) Teacher allowed a retake and the child did fine on it.

The parent is upset that the kid had to take the first quiz, because the kid had been out sick, didn’t have access to the material, and the kid was distressed at having failed a quiz. The parent is still worked up about this even though the kid took a make u and did fine. Or, alternatively, they posted this as an example of teachers not being perfect and their being annoyed that the teacher caused their kid some extra stress.

The parent can use this as a teaching tool for herself and her kid, people are not perfect but you took the make up and did fine. Maybe the teacher thought the student had access to the material and had looked at it. Maybe the teacher thought that the kid would be fine on the quiz and didn’t want the kid sitting there doing nothing while the rest of the class took the quiz. Maybe the teacher made a mistake. But, quizzes are part of the 10% of a grade and doing poorly on one is not going to sink your grade long term. And, in the long run, the kid retook the quiz and there was no harm done.

Looks like we found the poor teacher!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As I read the situation.

1) Child was out sick and didn’t have access to the work.
2) Child returned to school and took a quiz they were upreared for because the teacher told them to take the quiz even without access to the work.
3) Child was upset because the child was unrepared. This most likely caused some distress for the child, no idea how much.
4) Child failed the quiz
5) Teacher allowed a retake and the child did fine on it.

The parent is upset that the kid had to take the first quiz, because the kid had been out sick, didn’t have access to the material, and the kid was distressed at having failed a quiz. The parent is still worked up about this even though the kid took a make u and did fine. Or, alternatively, they posted this as an example of teachers not being perfect and their being annoyed that the teacher caused their kid some extra stress.

The parent can use this as a teaching tool for herself and her kid, people are not perfect but you took the make up and did fine. Maybe the teacher thought the student had access to the material and had looked at it. Maybe the teacher thought that the kid would be fine on the quiz and didn’t want the kid sitting there doing nothing while the rest of the class took the quiz. Maybe the teacher made a mistake. But, quizzes are part of the 10% of a grade and doing poorly on one is not going to sink your grade long term. And, in the long run, the kid retook the quiz and there was no harm done.

Looks like we found the poor teacher!

If that were actually the case (and I suspect it’s not), then she has proven to be a very reasonable person and the angry mom can take a note here.

-DP

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Anonymous wrote:As I read the situation.

1) Child was out sick and didn’t have access to the work.
2) Child returned to school and took a quiz they were upreared for because the teacher told them to take the quiz even without access to the work.
3) Child was upset because the child was unrepared. This most likely caused some distress for the child, no idea how much.
4) Child failed the quiz
5) Teacher allowed a retake and the child did fine on it.

The parent is upset that the kid had to take the first quiz, because the kid had been out sick, didn’t have access to the material, and the kid was distressed at having failed a quiz. The parent is still worked up about this even though the kid took a make u and did fine. Or, alternatively, they posted this as an example of teachers not being perfect and their being annoyed that the teacher caused their kid some extra stress.

The parent can use this as a teaching tool for herself and her kid, people are not perfect but you took the make up and did fine. Maybe the teacher thought the student had access to the material and had looked at it. Maybe the teacher thought that the kid would be fine on the quiz and didn’t want the kid sitting there doing nothing while the rest of the class took the quiz. Maybe the teacher made a mistake. But, quizzes are part of the 10% of a grade and doing poorly on one is not going to sink your grade long term. And, in the long run, the kid retook the quiz and there was no harm done.

Looks like we found the poor teacher!

Nope, not even a teacher. I know plenty of teachers though and I understand that people can make mistakes.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI, the policy is one day make up work for each day out sick. So if missed two days, kid should have had to make up the quiz two days later, not on day of return.

Due to block schedules, the kid only missed one day of each class. If the missed class was on Friday, the kid only missed that class on Friday, not Monday. The quiz should've been given to the kid on Thursday instead of Tuesday, but the kid would then be missing instruction on Thursday. The teacher has to keep teaching.

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And, I'm willing to bet the sick child was not in bed all weekend.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I read the situation.

1) Child was out sick and didn’t have access to the work.
2) Child returned to school and took a quiz they were upreared for because the teacher told them to take the quiz even without access to the work.
3) Child was upset because the child was unrepared. This most likely caused some distress for the child, no idea how much.
4) Child failed the quiz
5) Teacher allowed a retake and the child did fine on it.

The parent is upset that the kid had to take the first quiz, because the kid had been out sick, didn’t have access to the material, and the kid was distressed at having failed a quiz. The parent is still worked up about this even though the kid took a make u and did fine. Or, alternatively, they posted this as an example of teachers not being perfect and their being annoyed that the teacher caused their kid some extra stress.

The parent can use this as a teaching tool for herself and her kid, people are not perfect but you took the make up and did fine. Maybe the teacher thought the student had access to the material and had looked at it. Maybe the teacher thought that the kid would be fine on the quiz and didn’t want the kid sitting there doing nothing while the rest of the class took the quiz. Maybe the teacher made a mistake. But, quizzes are part of the 10% of a grade and doing poorly on one is not going to sink your grade long term. And, in the long run, the kid retook the quiz and there was no harm done.

This exactly. This happens all the time though. And causes stress to kids who were genuinely sick. I would love to see a bit more compassion from high school teachers. Especially when many of them take off the week before winter break. Which goes back to the original topic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As I read the situation.

1) Child was out sick and didn’t have access to the work.
2) Child returned to school and took a quiz they were upreared for because the teacher told them to take the quiz even without access to the work.
3) Child was upset because the child was unrepared. This most likely caused some distress for the child, no idea how much.
4) Child failed the quiz
5) Teacher allowed a retake and the child did fine on it.

The parent is upset that the kid had to take the first quiz, because the kid had been out sick, didn’t have access to the material, and the kid was distressed at having failed a quiz. The parent is still worked up about this even though the kid took a make u and did fine. Or, alternatively, they posted this as an example of teachers not being perfect and their being annoyed that the teacher caused their kid some extra stress.

The parent can use this as a teaching tool for herself and her kid, people are not perfect but you took the make up and did fine. Maybe the teacher thought the student had access to the material and had looked at it. Maybe the teacher thought that the kid would be fine on the quiz and didn’t want the kid sitting there doing nothing while the rest of the class took the quiz. Maybe the teacher made a mistake. But, quizzes are part of the 10% of a grade and doing poorly on one is not going to sink your grade long term. And, in the long run, the kid retook the quiz and there was no harm done.

This exactly. This happens all the time though. And causes stress to kids who were genuinely sick. I would love to see a bit more compassion from high school teachers. Especially when many of them take off the week before winter break. Which goes back to the original topic.

High school teacher here. I’ve learned that when you give people kindness and compassion, they expect the well to be bottomless. Teachers give and give and give and give.

- a teacher who has taken one personal day in the past couple of years to drop off a kid from college. No vacations here. (This, by the way, is what most teachers do since it’s harder to take leave than it is to stay at work. Who are all these teachers taking week long vacations?)

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If a student (high school) is "stressed out" because of a quiz he/she was not prepared for, and that the teacher allowed for a retake, you might consider allowing for some life experiences.

Resilience is a very important quality.

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Anonymous wrote:My child returned from being sick and had to immediately take a quiz that day with the class that they had been told when they were absent. My child explained to the teacher they had been sick and didn’t even know about the quiz. Didn’t matter. The teacher made them take it. They failed it. I guess the teacher felt sorry for my child and allowed them to retake it. But what a jerk making them take it in the first place and causing undue stress on my child.

Imagine being so addicted to outrage that even when the situation is corrected, you still need strangers to validate your tantrum. Your kid moved on faster than you did.

Are you a teacher or something? I can’t imagine getting this worked up about someone else’s experience and trying to invalidate them. I was asked about the details and answered. Some teachers are not compassionate after illnesses, that’s all. This was one example. I have others too.

DP. Former teacher here.

The teacher gave the child a make up quiz. What is the big deal?
The rest of the class was taking the quiz--maybe the quiz included a lot of earlier information he should have known, maybe not.

And, has PP ever told us how many days the kid was out? Was this an assigned quiz or a pop quiz?

Nevertheless, the child made up the quiz. What is the big deal?

There isn’t a big deal. And the PP was already asked how many days the kid was out and she didn’t respond. That’s telling.

The teacher already made allowances without even being asked to, and I’m guessing there’s a large part of this story the PP isn’t sharing (how many days out, that the test info was online, that this make-up procedure was already posted).

But let’s not pass on the opportunity to make this teacher into a “jerk” and then project that on all teachers!

It’s in the thread earlier. I did explain but don’t feel like repeating it to idiots.

So the teacher is a jerk and posters here are idiots.

You’ve lost the argument since you’ve resorted to juvenile name calling. You didn’t help your argument at all, did you?

There’s no argument, dummy. Just facts. lol.

Haha lady get a grip. Your kid was soo sick the entire weekend that they could log in to see an assignment but we're unable to do any work, but were 100% on Monday but shouldn't have been expected to do what every other student was even though you sent them to school. But wait they were allowed a retake anyway, and you are still this angry because your child was subjected to ... life??? Am I missing anything here?

That is correct. I made my child log in to see what they were missing but they were too sick to actually work. You can’t possibly understand that?

Understand that you clearly have issues if you are this enraged that a teacher still has a schedule and curriculum that they are adhering to while your little precious snowflake is out sick. They came back and weren't prepared what exactly do you expect? They were allowed a retake and yet here you are still complaining.

I have no problem with teachers sticking to their schedule. I do have a problem with teachers not following the sick policy when it comes to make up work. It seems you don’t agree. I hope my child doesn’t encounter you! You seem to be angry and lack compassion. Sad.

The teacher gave a make up quiz. Enough said.

Only after my child failed it. My child had explained their illness before the quiz and had asked if they could take it later and was told no. It was distressing. I think that’s wrong, especially after being sick 4 days straight (2 school days missed).

And, just maybe teacher thought he could succeed on the quiz because the information had been taught. But, teacher let "them" make it up. If child is that stressed out over something that "they" were allowed to retake, I think you have bigger fish to fry.

The information hadn’t been taught to my child and my child didn’t have the opportunity to catch up yet due to illness. It was literally reading a section, taking notes and then having a quiz on that section. The section had been read in the class my child missed due to illness and the homework was to finish it over the weekend. My child hadn’t had a chance to do any of the reading/notes due to illness. My child also didn’t know they would be allowed to retake it as it was a quiz. Generally quizzes aren’t allowed to be retaken. Again, the teacher put my child in a position to fail on their first day back from illness. Not cool. Thankfully the teacher realized that was not right and allowed my child to retake the quiz after catching up on the material. I don’t understand why you can’t accept this. Maybe you’re having trouble understanding why a teacher would do this in the first place. I sure did.

DP .

You aren’t getting sympathy because of your tone toward the teacher, who fixed the mistake without any difficulty. And calling her a “jerk” and saying she has no sympathy and compassion was an attack on her character. That’s WAY above what this situation calls for.

Let’s play with the idea that your version of the story is correct. Then teachers have 150 students, tight schedules, and they are holding down hundreds of moving parts simultaneously. Guess what? Teachers occasionally make mistakes and that is okay; this teacher immediately corrected hers. Your kid has clearly moved on, and now it’s your turn.

She’s getting plenty of sympathy from parents who don’t think teachers need to be needlessly upsetting kids— and it wasn’t “immediately” corrected since “immediate” would have been as soon as the child said they’d been sick.