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[quote=Anonymous]This isn't surprising at all to me as a STEM HS teacher. We always have students who lack the prereq skills, don't do what they're supposed to do, take classes that are simply too hard for them and then make demands along the lines of "what extra credit do you offer because I need to get my grade to at least a ____". The blank is usually an A or a B, and the student is usually scoring two grades below that.

Or they'll come to you and say "I don't understand what you're teaching/you're going too fast/if you taught it differently I would understand so can you change what you're doing/no one else understands what you're teaching" because they've talked to two similarly situated friends who are failing and have no idea that the class average is a C.

On top of which, our district has open enrollment and there's always a fraction of students who were told to take a lower-level class who disregard teacher recs and select classes they can't handle, and then gripe about them.[/quote]

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