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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of a ninth grader, this post sums up what I don't like about this area.

My DD says her peers are beyond stressed. All they ever talk about is grades, and assignments. They freely share their test scores with everyone, and freak out over everything to the point that they're paralyzed and can't finish things (it might not be perfect). They have no personality or "fire in the belly" beyond their academics. Our DD says how she wishes we would move someplace where "people are normal, and nice". I have to agree with her more and more.[/quote]

Hint: it's the parents here creating this atmosphere. The schools have to respond to it and we don't like it anymore than you do. I tell my students all the time intelligence presents itself in many more ways than academics and grades aren't everything. But they really believe they are. I asked them what it would be like if we didn't use grades in school and they looked like they wanted to die.

If I were OP's kid's teacher I wouldn't care at all he got a D. Their grade is their thing. But I would care he lied about submitting it and made me look bad to his parents.

-freshman teacher [/quote]

You care about appearances and not pedagogy? This can’t be the first ninth grade kid you encountered who wasn’t doing his work... I’ve also taught freshmen. They are babies. [/quote]

Hahahahaha you think pedagogy = grades?? Oh boy.

And no is not about appearances. It's about character. The kid lied to cover his own mess up and shifted blame to someone else.  That lack of character would bother me. [/quote]

"made me look bad to his parents" - sounds like appearances to me.

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So you're going to stick to being obtuse then. It's because he made someone else look bad to avoid his OWN responsibility. I work with kids to
teach them responsibility and accountability so yeah, that more than the silly D would bother me.  [/quote]

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