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Reply to "If teachers are leaving left and right, is it the principal's fault?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just misbehavior that's the issue when it comes to students. In MS and HS, the 50% minimum grade and open enrollment mean that students are increasingly unprepared for higher-level classes as they move through the system. They can't handle the class; they hog up a huge amount of our time trying to help them, usually to no avail because they're unable to help themselves and take initiative to catch up--and that's time we can't spend helping other students during the lesson; they refuse to go down to a level they can handle because of misplaced pride, and by the time they give up and decide to move down, that level may be full; we have to spend a lot of extra time dealing with their parents who are often clueless/in denial/unwilling to put their foot down; the parents sometimes make our lives difficult, insisting on things like changing to a different teacher, on us spending extensive amounts of one-on-one time with their kid after school because the world owes them something, on us coming up with "different methods" to teach their child... And many of those who do pass have absurdly inflated grades that don't reflect their true performance, leading to problems in subsequent years.[/quote] +1000 Thank you for articulating so well problems I am having this year with my advanced classes. [/quote]
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