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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Online make-up courses are easy to click through, Google answers, or use AI to breeze through.  Graduation rates are a joke but no one wants to do anything about improving learning requirements or accountability for attendance.

Shocking to see my students fail classes over and over and still walk graduation in time.[/quote]

HS teacher here and I agree. Are some kids doing better? Sure. Are school staff working really hard to graduate as many kids as possible- yes. But there’s also pressure from Admin to bring up Ds and Es. Principals face immense pressure to improve their MSDE stat rating, and that pressure trickles down to everyone.

The online classes are a joke. I’ve seen some students in danger of not graduating have someone else complete the work for them so they can pass. [/quote]

There absolutely should be pressure on teachers to help kids get their grades to a passing level so they can graduate. Without a HS diploma, it is virtually impossible to find a job that pays a living wage and provides health insurance and paid sick leave. Kids who do well benefit far less from your efforts than kids on the border of pass and fail. And it is the job of our schools to prepare kids to be successful after HS and that responsibility belongs primarily to teachers. To complain about pressure to do your job is one of the most disappointing things I’ve heard from a teacher.

And as for the huge awakening in college, kids who barely make it out of HS are not going to college in droves. Lack of preparation for college is a problem for a completely different group of kids - not those tho D’d out of HS. [/quote]

Thanks for the lecture. How do you suggest teachers help kids pass when they don’t come to school??? Or what should they do about the kids who are in school, but choose to walk the halls and hang out in bathrooms. Or maybe they do come to class but they watch tik tok the entire time with AirPods in and turn in nothing.

You clearly haven’t been in a HS in quite a long time. [/quote]

Absurd reasoning.  Teachers are responsible to teach the child intent, assign work, and to grade it.  We are not responsible for parenting the students, even though we often do.  Your post helps to explain why high school diplomas hold no weight anymore.[/quote]

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