Emailing teacher for homework help when missing school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just always make it an excused absence, problem solved. I get it that teachers are overworked but I don’t want my kid to be the victim of their wrath for whatever reason. Therefore “my kid is sick today” or has a Dr appt

Or don't pull them for a vacation unless you are willing to accept that they might fail an assignment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love all the grouchy teachers. Maybe if you picked a better career or married better, you wouldn't be so angry all the time.

Let’s go with another option:

Make teaching a sustainable job, one that can actually get done in 45ish hours a week. (I’d be happy with 50.) Perhaps give teachers real breaks during the day, times alone to answer emails and grade papers.

Then we ALL win… happy teachers who have time to address 140 students’ individual needs.

Or we can just continue to be rude to teachers, and nothing will change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love all the grouchy teachers. Maybe if you picked a better career or married better, you wouldn't be so angry all the time.

They are grouchy because of the ridiculous entitlement. The kid shouldn’t have expected to be caught up on an assignment he missed due to an unexcused absence. Lesson learned. Either go yo school or wait until the following school day. You can’t have it all.

[Anonymous]

If I were his teacher, I would have just ignored the email over the holiday weekend and explained it to him Tuesday. But then again, at our school all absences are treated the same and late assignments are given huge grace periods because “equity.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so interesting to me. Very black and white. I would be upset that the teacher refused to help. I think it sets a bad example for kids who put in the effort to reach out and I think its damaging to be dismissive to children when they ask for help, especially coming from a teacher.

That being said, not much to do here. Tell your kiddo she's the grinch and that there are many more grinches in the world and not to get too down about it.

You really believe the teacher is wrong here? Little Billy isn't her only student as others have pointed out. He missed school for no good reason. He coukd have reached out to friends in the class rather than burden the teacher on a holiday too!

I honestly can't believe the expectaions you have on the teachers without applying the same standards to yourself. Such hubris.

[Anonymous]

Back in my day I would’ve been embarrassed to ask the teacher for my work for an unexcused absence. Now the OP is complaining that the teacher had an attitude about it. Times have changed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back in my day I would’ve been embarrassed to ask the teacher for my work for an unexcused absence. Now the OP is complaining that the teacher had an attitude about it. Times have changed!

Public schools don’t really have a distinction any longer between excused and unexcused. All work is allowed to be made up. Particularly if a school is low income or has a lot of non-American families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back in my day I would’ve been embarrassed to ask the teacher for my work for an unexcused absence. Now the OP is complaining that the teacher had an attitude about it. Times have changed!

Public schools don’t really have a distinction any longer between excused and unexcused. All work is allowed to be made up. Particularly if a school is low income or has a lot of non-American families.

Not true. Teachers aren’t required to allow make up testing for kids who missed for an unexcused absence. I have students who have missed more than 50+ days each year and all of them are unexcused. They fail everything and still pass (not my choice). This country must be in the minority for this situation because so many parents ask me if their child passed the grade at this time of year. Yep, everyone passes. Here we give something for nothing. Congrats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh. It's the end of the school year, everyone is tired, and cranky. It's okay for your kid to learn that when he is not in class (or later, at work), the world doesn't stop for him. And you did pull him out for fun stuff, not illness.

Was it the finest form on the part of the teacher? No. But having to backtrack and explain things to a kid whose Mom took him out for the day to do fun stuff is annoying when there is already so much to do.

Take the blowback, and move on.

This. All of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so interesting to me. Very black and white. I would be upset that the teacher refused to help. I think it sets a bad example for kids who put in the effort to reach out and I think its damaging to be dismissive to children when they ask for help, especially coming from a teacher.

That being said, not much to do here. Tell your kiddo she's the grinch and that there are many more grinches in the world and not to get too down about it.

You really believe the teacher is wrong here? Little Billy isn't her only student as others have pointed out. He missed school for no good reason. He coukd have reached out to friends in the class rather than burden the teacher on a holiday too!

I honestly can't believe the expectaions you have on the teachers without applying the same standards to yourself. Such hubris.

+1
I see both sides but if I have to lean one way it's team teacher. Your child is in 8th. He could have asked a friend later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so interesting to me. Very black and white. I would be upset that the teacher refused to help. I think it sets a bad example for kids who put in the effort to reach out and I think its damaging to be dismissive to children when they ask for help, especially coming from a teacher.

That being said, not much to do here. Tell your kiddo she's the grinch and that there are many more grinches in the world and not to get too down about it.

And this is why we have so many entitled brats in this world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just always make it an excused absence, problem solved. I get it that teachers are overworked but I don’t want my kid to be the victim of their wrath for whatever reason. Therefore “my kid is sick today” or has a Dr appt

Yes, be sure to teach your kids to lie to avoid natural consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back in my day I would’ve been embarrassed to ask the teacher for my work for an unexcused absence. Now the OP is complaining that the teacher had an attitude about it. Times have changed!

Public schools don’t really have a distinction any longer between excused and unexcused. All work is allowed to be made up. Particularly if a school is low income or has a lot of non-American families.

Not true. Teachers aren’t required to allow make up testing for kids who missed for an unexcused absence. I have students who have missed more than 50+ days each year and all of them are unexcused. They fail everything and still pass (not my choice). This country must be in the minority for this situation because so many parents ask me if their child passed the grade at this time of year. Yep, everyone passes. Here we give something for nothing. Congrats.

It’s true in Loudoun. You can complete late work up to an 80% until the quarter closes. Does not matter the reason for the late work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just always make it an excused absence, problem solved. I get it that teachers are overworked but I don’t want my kid to be the victim of their wrath for whatever reason. Therefore “my kid is sick today” or has a Dr appt

Yes, be sure to teach your kids to lie to avoid natural consequences.

Believe me, teachers know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back in my day I would’ve been embarrassed to ask the teacher for my work for an unexcused absence. Now the OP is complaining that the teacher had an attitude about it. Times have changed!

Public schools don’t really have a distinction any longer between excused and unexcused. All work is allowed to be made up. Particularly if a school is low income or has a lot of non-American families.

Not true. Teachers aren’t required to allow make up testing for kids who missed for an unexcused absence. I have students who have missed more than 50+ days each year and all of them are unexcused. They fail everything and still pass (not my choice). This country must be in the minority for this situation because so many parents ask me if their child passed the grade at this time of year. Yep, everyone passes. Here we give something for nothing. Congrats.

It’s true in Loudoun. You can complete late work up to an 80% until the quarter closes. Does not matter the reason for the late work.

I can't wait to see how these kids fare in college and jobs.