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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid’s teachers have regularly had policies which make it very difficult to catch up. They often seem to suggest that the kid needs to catch up by working at home, while sick. But if the kid is too sick to go to school, usually he’s too sick to do schoolwork. It just feels like they want to have it both ways.

Sometimes it feels like teachers just want the kids to be sick less. [/quote]

This discussion is illuminating. Of course the angry teacher poster doesn't speak for all teachers, but it helps me to understand that even before the pandemic, some teachers favored policies to intended protect teachers from being exposed to illness, regardless of severity or actual risk, to the detriment of childrens' education. No teacher should ever be forced to catch a cold, so all sniffling children should be excluded from school. And each of them needs to individually approach each of their teachers to make arrangement to make up the work, subject to teacher discretion to allow them to make up the work. Oh, and by the way, if you are sick, stay home as instructed, and ask to make up the work, you have to do it either before or after school, so you'll need your own transportation for that too. [/quote]

It really is. This makes me reflect on the support kids are given to catch up. Like, they’re asked to complete these worksheets to catch up, but they weren’t in class for instruction. I remember one time when my kid was in 8th and out for a few days not too long before an exam. He came home with all of these math worksheets and was told he could have until the exam to turn in the worksheets. He didn’t know how to do the math. The teacher essentially said “well, you missed the instruction, so go ask your parents to catch you up. Frankly, I know this is embarrassing, but I didn’t know how to do the math either. I eventually found some other help for him, but the class had already moved on, and it was hard to catch up before the exam. He did poorly.

It all felt really punitive. [/quote]

This makes a lot of sense. What a tough situation. I think teachers’ complaints are that absences create additional work for the teacher...and that makes sense too. It would be nice if schools had a better way of helping the student without burdening teachers so much. I’m thinking of a teacher, teaching 5+ periods of students...there would be 5-10+ kids absent daily, I’d think. Even more,  during flu season or around school breaks. That would be a lot to keep track of. Would be nice if schools had a better way of addressing this issue..[/quote]

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