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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yay! Let’s teach our kids to not prepare for tests so we can take them again. Let’s also teach them that emails from mommy get stuff done. It’s no wonder nobody wants to teach. [/quote]

Yes emails from parents work. I highly recommend them![/quote]

That’s okay. My kid studies for tests the first time and doesn’t need mommy to email his teachers. [/quote]

When a teacher blatantly disregards a country policy, yes an adult needs to step in. In fact, this teacher was doubling down during math class saying no retakes but did a complete turnaround 2 hours after school. This teacher creates a culture of fear and kids are scared to approach her.[/quote]

DP, but our DCs apparently have the same teacher.  I’m glad someone spoke up. One of the reasons I liked this teacher so much was because they made the test retake policy explicitly clear at BTSN. And like it or not, it’s FCPS policy. You can’t just flippantly change it because you suddenly don’t agree with it. I mean, imagine if we lived in a country where you could just change laws on a whim because you don’t agree with them. What kind of message does this send to the kids? [/quote]

This teacher also constantly does unannounced quizzes on performance matters after the unit test. They aren’t necessarily on the current topic of study, and aren’t available to review to see what they got wrong. This teacher seems to have a “gotcha” mentality. She also grades every single thing they do, so there is no time to just practice without fear of making mistakes. This teacher had a total of 15 formative assignments this quarter which is insane. Also, she turned mathspace assigbemnts (which had questions way over the scope of what they did in class) into summatives. She also grades every mathspace based on 100% accuracy. [b]You only get full credit if you get everything correct.[/b] It is absolutely ridiculous. My child hates math now as a result of this teacher. [/quote]

This is what full credit means - you got everything correct.   Looks like your child is having an excellent teacher.  Send them a gift card and a thank you note for Christmas.[/quote]

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