Attendance pressure

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Anonymous wrote:This is comical. I cannot imagine complaining to my mom that the teacher made me take a quiz.

I can. If I had missed class because I was sick and I had to take a quiz when I returned, I would say something to my parent. I would hope that the teacher would allow me to retake the quiz, which is exactly what happened here. And I would be done with it.

If a teacher didn’t follow the policy and made me sit a quiz they fully knew I would fail, I’d have spoken to my parents as well aw guidance counselor but we took class rank very seriously.

This exactly. No teenager on the face of the Earth would not have complained, especially if they are a good student.

And what the two poster above ignored is that the teacher immediately gave a retake, so class rank wasn’t an issue at all.

Also, I was a good student. I didn’t “complain.” I simply solved problems. That can be done without complaining.

You again with immediate? No the retake was only offered after the child failed. Setting a kid up to fail is the work of a bad teacher.

This is insane. The child was given a retake. Mom and kid need to get a life.

The teacher take-down that has gone on for PAGES is absolutely blown out of proportion. It’s absurd.

What we’ve learned on this thread is one mistake = bad teacher. (Therefore, all teachers are bad teachers because they have the pesky weakness of being human.)

Clearly there are a couple of posters here who have never, ever made a mistake in their lives.

The next time there is a scandal about a teacher of abusing a student and you wondered to yourself “how could this possibly happen?” just read the above.

A teacher violated a well publicized policy. Instead of acknowledging that this kind of behavior is detrimental, you run, screaming to the defense of the teacher, make up facts that didn’t happen, and excoriate who? The victim. And the victims parent were speaking out.

This is “how it could possibly happen”. There will be someone like you covering it up.

+1 this. Until teachers a knowledge this, there can be no further rational discussion.

Sigh. We’ve all acknowledged the mistake. What we won’t acknowledge is that it was done in a vindictive, intentional manner (which has been stated multiple times).

Yes, I am going to defend a teacher against unnecessary attack like the Mom has done here.

Both can be true:

The teacher violated a policy (and immediately fixed it).

The mother has been repeatedly insulting and incapable of grace.

So you got your acknowledgment. Can you also acknowledge the pages of insulting a teacher’s professionalism and character is inappropriate?

How do you think the teacher unintentionally violated the policy when the student told her AND asked to take the test at an appropriate time?

Say what you want about “vindictive” but this was absolutely intentional.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is comical. I cannot imagine complaining to my mom that the teacher made me take a quiz.

I can. If I had missed class because I was sick and I had to take a quiz when I returned, I would say something to my parent. I would hope that the teacher would allow me to retake the quiz, which is exactly what happened here. And I would be done with it.

If a teacher didn’t follow the policy and made me sit a quiz they fully knew I would fail, I’d have spoken to my parents as well aw guidance counselor but we took class rank very seriously.

This exactly. No teenager on the face of the Earth would not have complained, especially if they are a good student.

And what the two poster above ignored is that the teacher immediately gave a retake, so class rank wasn’t an issue at all.

Also, I was a good student. I didn’t “complain.” I simply solved problems. That can be done without complaining.

You again with immediate? No the retake was only offered after the child failed. Setting a kid up to fail is the work of a bad teacher.

This is insane. The child was given a retake. Mom and kid need to get a life.

The teacher take-down that has gone on for PAGES is absolutely blown out of proportion. It’s absurd.

What we’ve learned on this thread is one mistake = bad teacher. (Therefore, all teachers are bad teachers because they have the pesky weakness of being human.)

Clearly there are a couple of posters here who have never, ever made a mistake in their lives.

The next time there is a scandal about a teacher of abusing a student and you wondered to yourself “how could this possibly happen?” just read the above.

A teacher violated a well publicized policy. Instead of acknowledging that this kind of behavior is detrimental, you run, screaming to the defense of the teacher, make up facts that didn’t happen, and excoriate who? The victim. And the victims parent were speaking out.

This is “how it could possibly happen”. There will be someone like you covering it up.

+1 this. Until teachers a knowledge this, there can be no further rational discussion.

Sigh. We’ve all acknowledged the mistake. What we won’t acknowledge is that it was done in a vindictive, intentional manner (which has been stated multiple times).

Yes, I am going to defend a teacher against unnecessary attack like the Mom has done here.

Both can be true:

The teacher violated a policy (and immediately fixed it).

The mother has been repeatedly insulting and incapable of grace.

So you got your acknowledgment. Can you also acknowledge the pages of insulting a teacher’s professionalism and character is inappropriate?

How do you think the teacher unintentionally violated the policy when the student told her AND asked to take the test at an appropriate time?

Say what you want about “vindictive” but this was absolutely intentional.

After page after unnecessary page, it’s clear to me that the only way out of this is to condemn this teacher, and I’m not going to do that.

She made a mistake and she corrected it. For reasonable people, that’s sufficient. For a few posters here, there will be absolutely no way to make them happy.

And this will only end when they get their way. So you may have this thread, comfortable in the knowledge that you screamed louder.

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BTW this is what fixing it “immediately” looks line.

Teacher hands out quiz including to ill student.

Student raises hand, tells teacher she was out Friday/Monday.

Teacher maybe takes 30 seconds to look at the attendance app, maybe just believes the student.

“Sorry Larla you’re right. Why don’t you take it Friday. In the meantime why don’t you read chapter ____”

Thats *immediate*.

This teacher waited for the kid to fail. I bet if they’d scraped a pass— even if it tanked their average— they wouldn’t have offered the policy-compliant retake. This is about avoiding work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BTW this is what fixing it “immediately” looks line.

Teacher hands out quiz including to ill student.

Student raises hand, tells teacher she was out Friday/Monday.

Teacher maybe takes 30 seconds to look at the attendance app, maybe just believes the student.

“Sorry Larla you’re right. Why don’t you take it Friday. In the meantime why don’t you read chapter ____”

Thats *immediate*.

This teacher waited for the kid to fail. I bet if they’d scraped a pass— even if it tanked their average— they wouldn’t have offered the policy-compliant retake. This is about avoiding work.

+1 This exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:This is comical. I cannot imagine complaining to my mom that the teacher made me take a quiz.

I can. If I had missed class because I was sick and I had to take a quiz when I returned, I would say something to my parent. I would hope that the teacher would allow me to retake the quiz, which is exactly what happened here. And I would be done with it.

If a teacher didn’t follow the policy and made me sit a quiz they fully knew I would fail, I’d have spoken to my parents as well aw guidance counselor but we took class rank very seriously.

This exactly. No teenager on the face of the Earth would not have complained, especially if they are a good student.

And what the two poster above ignored is that the teacher immediately gave a retake, so class rank wasn’t an issue at all.

Also, I was a good student. I didn’t “complain.” I simply solved problems. That can be done without complaining.

You again with immediate? No the retake was only offered after the child failed. Setting a kid up to fail is the work of a bad teacher.

This is insane. The child was given a retake. Mom and kid need to get a life.

The teacher take-down that has gone on for PAGES is absolutely blown out of proportion. It’s absurd.

What we’ve learned on this thread is one mistake = bad teacher. (Therefore, all teachers are bad teachers because they have the pesky weakness of being human.)

Clearly there are a couple of posters here who have never, ever made a mistake in their lives.

The next time there is a scandal about a teacher of abusing a student and you wondered to yourself “how could this possibly happen?” just read the above.

A teacher violated a well publicized policy. Instead of acknowledging that this kind of behavior is detrimental, you run, screaming to the defense of the teacher, make up facts that didn’t happen, and excoriate who? The victim. And the victims parent were speaking out.

This is “how it could possibly happen”. There will be someone like you covering it up.

+1 this. Until teachers a knowledge this, there can be no further rational discussion.

Sigh. We’ve all acknowledged the mistake. What we won’t acknowledge is that it was done in a vindictive, intentional manner (which has been stated multiple times).

Yes, I am going to defend a teacher against unnecessary attack like the Mom has done here.

Both can be true:

The teacher violated a policy (and immediately fixed it).

The mother has been repeatedly insulting and incapable of grace.

So you got your acknowledgment. Can you also acknowledge the pages of insulting a teacher’s professionalism and character is inappropriate?

How do you think the teacher unintentionally violated the policy when the student told her AND asked to take the test at an appropriate time?

Say what you want about “vindictive” but this was absolutely intentional.

+1 this was not just a “mistake.”

[Anonymous]

There is absolutely no excuse for violating the sick policy once the teacher was made aware the child was sick. There was no reason to have the child take the quiz the first day back. Period. That’s a fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no excuse for violating the sick policy once the teacher was made aware the child was sick. There was no reason to have the child take the quiz the first day back. Period. That’s a fact.

But some people would rather march off in a huff than assigned any responsibility to a teacher. These are the people who truly stand in the way of educational reform and improvement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no excuse for violating the sick policy once the teacher was made aware the child was sick. There was no reason to have the child take the quiz the first day back. Period. That’s a fact.

But some people would rather march off in a huff than assigned any responsibility to a teacher. These are the people who truly stand in the way of educational reform and improvement.

+1 I totally agree. You can’t have a rational discussion with them.

[Anonymous]

It’s funny how all the teachers are now oddly quiet about this. We heard shrieking for pages and pages.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no excuse for violating the sick policy once the teacher was made aware the child was sick. There was no reason to have the child take the quiz the first day back. Period. That’s a fact.

But some people would rather march off in a huff than assigned any responsibility to a teacher. These are the people who truly stand in the way of educational reform and improvement.

+1 I totally agree. You can’t have a rational discussion with them.

You do know they have jobs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how all the teachers are now oddly quiet about this. We heard shrieking for pages and pages.

It’s because there’s only one, who is a prolific sock puppeteer. Many teachers IRL are more bothered by bad teachers than parents because they’re picking up the slack and the reputational damage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how all the teachers are now oddly quiet about this. We heard shrieking for pages and pages.

Winter break is over lady; move past this thread and back to your real life

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how all the teachers are now oddly quiet about this. We heard shrieking for pages and pages.

It’s because there’s only one, who is a prolific sock puppeteer. Many teachers IRL are more bothered by bad teachers than parents because they’re picking up the slack and the reputational damage.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how all the teachers are now oddly quiet about this. We heard shrieking for pages and pages.

Winter break is over lady; move past this thread and back to your real life

Is that what the teacher finally did?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how all the teachers are now oddly quiet about this. We heard shrieking for pages and pages.

Winter break is over lady; move past this thread and back to your real life

Is that what the teacher finally did?

Looks like it!