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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, OP.  You are paying reeealllly close attention to this.  Really, really close attention.  Isn't there something else you can do with your time?  Your kid is fine.[/quote]

Is there not something better you could do with your time? Without all of the relevant background information, I don't see how you can make such an abrasive comment. Life is not fair. My kid knows that.  She's also learning there will always be people like you, people who just haven't figured out how to disagree respectfully. I haven't asked for special treatment. My kid is one of the favored kids, if you must know. It's so blatantly biased that it needs to be addressed.

For the person who mentioned experiencing the same thing in another country, thank you. The teacher is not Amercan-trained, and I've tried to understand how/why she does things the way she does.[/quote]

I'm the poster from another country. The idea of student privacy of their grades and effort etc is much less present outside the U.S.  So it may not even occur to the teacher that that's expected here. If it's done right and without emphasis on the shame but with emphasis on what kinds of mistakes can and were made and how to learn from that it can be an effective technique. It's just hard to apply here especially in a competitive environment where the concept is that every kid is competing with all the other kids instead of every kid in the class working together to get the whole class to be better. In my country ES kids were all in the same class cohort for grades 1-8 so you knew those kids really well and you compete with the other same grade level classes for many years and it was class pride to get everyone to do well so peer pressure worked towards that. It definitely wasn't all pretty all the time and there were kids who were hurt by this but it made sense overall and made the bonds between students that much stronger. [/quote]

That is not how we do things here.  I had a teacher from another country back in college who insisted on doing things that way, because that was what she knew.  She would hand out test papers and announce each grade, taking time to humiliate kids with low grades by saying things like "I guess you didn't learn anything" or "How could you get this wrong?  Are you stupid or did you just not study hard enough?"  and so on.  People cried.  People dropped the class.  People failed.  Finally a group of us went to the chair and explained what was happening.  Teacher was dismissed at the end of that term.  It was a great improvement for the department, which didn't fully understand before that why it was losing so many students.  And this was 20 years ago - even then, it wasn't acceptable or advisable in this country.  Cultures are different, and people react differently to the same things when they are from different cultures.  This kind of competition and humiliation doesn't fly in the American culture.  [/quote]

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