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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a HS kid, so here goes. In classes 7-8 teachers (all of whom I’ve observed at some points his year). Half are going to do a great job.  1/4 are going to half ass it but meet minimal standards of competence.  And 1-2 are going to be miserable beyatches or bastards. Do a full nine weeks with no grades in SIS, be mean and unapproachable 
 No show student meeting and teach in a mediocre way even after COVID.  They won’t even try to makedistance  learning work. Because it’s new and hard.

BTW— I have found in MS and HS where you get a range of teachers, this is usually the case.  Out of 7, 4ish are great, 2ish are very meh, but in minor ways and show lack of effort or a hint of snark that don’t warrant a principal referral. And there is always one of these disasters.

For example. My kid had an ADHD 504. She gets, per the 504, 3 school day to turn in small missing assignments for up to 80%— after she is  told they are missing. Emailing her is fine. Posting a zero in Gradebook is fine. Doesn’t matter, but she can’t fix a problem she doesn’t think exists.

Her teacher is any-grading and anti posting grades.  So her first grade in his class this year was a zero from week 1 of school that posed 7 weeks into the quarter (less than a week before the end).  She was new to him. No prior contact. No mistakes.

DD send a polite email that I reviewed that said

Dear Mr.Xxx. The grades for assignment Xxxx just posted and I see mine is missing.   But, I’ve looked for an hour and I can’t find the missing assignment in Google Drove..  My 504 plan (attached) gives me until Tuesday to submit it for 80% credit. Could you please tell me where to find the assignment so that I can get it in.”  Not perfect. But not bad for a 15 year old with panic attacks.

His email back to her (a kid in DL he had never, who had never missed a minute of class and had no prior missing assignment) started with:

X, I am incredibly disappointed in you. You had ample time to do the assignment in class and seven weeks to make it up (she didn’t know it was missing genius!).   504s are designed for you to goof off instead of working, and up you should be ashamed of using to get out of the consequences of refusing to work.

Sit there. Think about what you have done, amd reply by the end of the day with an appropriate response.

He still didn’t tell her what the assignment was and I though pt her response was appropriate for 10th grade.   And did I mention her 504 is also for anxiety and that self advocacy with teachers is a 504 goal?

We then took over from the sobbing kid. 4 emails later, we discovered in a meeting that now included the Asst VP, counselor and teacher that DD had DONE THE ASSIGNMENT, was missing nothing for that class and had had date stamped LMS proof it was turned in on time and the teacher has :1. had called the assignment one thing and entered it in SIS with a different title and 2. Missed the fact the assignment was completed by DD on time.

This is our a**hole teacher. And he will still be an a**hole in the classroom.  And I will never trust him with my kid. He certainly never apologized to her, admitted his mistake and tried to repair the relationship.

I don’t trust teachers less, exactly. But my vision is clearer. They are there to do a job for money. I’m a Fed, so I have an agency mission. I work paid for weeks at a time during shutdown, because we provide a vital service.

I thought teachers had a sense of mission too. I was wrong. They aren’t essential and they aren’t their for kids— or their communities   in general.  They are there for a paycheck. So on a personal level, Imtust them less.

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Professionally, I think COVID has exacerbated differences. The great teachers are mostly still great— and putting in more hours than ever to make it work.  The a**holes who don’t seem to like kids will be a**holes at school or in DL— but it’s easier to amd I catch and document in DL.  My  days of blind trust and lattes gist crtpetrifiatee sms coupons from Startnicpuks  are over. 
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Sounds like you need to do a better job monitoring and supporting your kid as well.  Teachers have 150 students.  You have one.[/quote]

Does the Union offer the same media training class in victim blaming?  [/quote]

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