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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My straight a teen/tween girls find school hideously boring 75% of the time. They are perfectly behave. I am a teacher too, and I don't have any trouble believing or accepting that some teachers are just phoning it in and are not very engaging. My daughter's science teacher literally "teaches" via slides she puts on Schoology that the students read to themselves and fill out worksheets. She doesn't verbally teach them any of the material. Then they complete online activities on their computers. There is no groupwork or classwork or anything other than just solitary computer time the entire 80 minute block. And not just occasionally. Every single day. I think we can all admit this is not okay. [/quote]

This sounds very much like my 7th grader. Straight As, well behaved, unofficially tutors her friends during breaks, and so on. The only year she was not bored in school, was when she had one amazing and one good teachers, in ES. She remembers everything they taught that year, even social studies, which she otherwise has no interest in.  Science this year has been abysmally disappointing. Pretty much as you described, every single block. I am so sad for them, because science should be hands-on, interesting, and instead, they're all... bored. I'm told that 8th grade science is pretty much the same.[/quote]

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