Planned walkout? Thoughts?
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Anonymous
DCUM at its incoherent best. No idea what the text above even means. |
Anonymous
Teacher here and terrible advice. Do not do this. The teachers need to follow school policy. They can reply and suggest your kid see the school counselor if they are struggling with peer pressure issues but that’s about it. No, they are not going to go against the zero policy on the walkout because you emailed about peer pressure. Do not email. Your kid walks out and faces the consequences or stays and takes the test. |
Anonymous
Nope. I’m a teacher. The kids are aware of what the walkout means. You don’t get to walkout and then your mommy emails me so I treat you special and let you make up the test nobody else can make up. I wouldn’t even respond. If he walks out, he walks out. If he stays he stays. I’m not chasing kids around about this stuff. |
Anonymous
Ahem... You seem overly concerned in whst other people allow their kids to do, troll |
Anonymous
Teachers are people too All kinds,some like PP. Others, not. |
Anonymous
this is the right move |
Anonymous
| When I was in HS, we had teachers push kids into protesting for some agenda or another... now, it wasn't "mandatory," you could always write an extensive report about some obscure subject instead - guess what we all ended up doing!? |
Anonymous
Sure thats why ALL these kids are protesting and all protesters are "paid agitators." Whatever you want to think |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
In this instance, most are like me. I support the kids protesting if they want. But your mom is not going to email me and then say you don’t have the same outcome as everyone else who walked out and maybe missed something. Your choice always has a consequence and the kids do have to own that. |
Anonymous
That has not been our experience. |
Anonymous
It has been your experience that after students walk out of class you can email the teacher and they say “yeah just for you Jonathan can make up that assignment”? Because that is the exact experience we’re discussing here. Not “do teachers generally let kids make up work” which I do. But “do teachers violate the school policy that students who participate in a walk out miss work they cannot make up later and bend on that because the parent asked them to.” Which no, most would not. |
Anonymous
Teachers proactively discussed the walk out and what the child's choices were regarding work. No one needed to be contacted by me. I can believe you are a teacher. We've met some who had been doing this too long. |
Anonymous
Another teacher here. I’m not breaking school policy. If you email me, I’m going to hold firm. It seems every teacher responding has said a variation of this. (And I’m not sure I understand your last paragraph. Did you try to insult the previous teacher? Kind of fell flat.) |
Anonymous
If you did not do this, why are you responding as if you did? The entire comment spawned from someone telling OP to email the teacher to ask could her son still do the work he would miss during the walkout because she doesn’t want him to fail. I said as a teacher I would not accede to that and treat that student as an exception to the policy. You said “that hasn’t been our experience” and then go on to admit this isn’t even something you’ve dealt with or that has applied to you at all. Huh??? If your kid walks out in protest, they are aware they might miss work. There isn’t an exception to that. If the teacher decides to halt all instruction so the kids miss nothing, that’s their choice. If they proceed with instruction and the kids miss something, the kids accept that as part of walking out. This isn’t hard. And despite your passive aggressive attempts at framing a teacher who follows this policy as a bad teacher, they aren’t. |