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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't enforce homework are pathetic.

Homework has a purpose! It's to help gauge where kids may still need help on a topic or skill.

When I get homework papers back and see that 9 out of 18-22 kids all missed the same problem, I know that it's a topic we need to cover again. Guess when it's too late to cover that topic again? After they've taken a test and gotten a bad grade.

Parents don't want to enforce homework because they don't want to deal with whiny kids who don't want to do it. However, had you started a good routine from the beginning in K, you'd have no whiny kids. I have plenty of parents who send me emails that say exactly this. "Brandon isn't receptive to hw afterschool so we will not be participating."

So if roughly half the class fails the same area of a test, you keep pushing forward even when you know you haven’t effectively taught the material, then blame the parents? Why is that too late to fix? It sounds like a teacher issue or a structural issue with testing and scoring to me. It’s ridiculous to think the only way you can gauge progress is with homework and your hands are tied with no way to fix it if children don’t do lots of homework every night.

The only way to know if the material was effectively taught without a test is to give a homework assignment. There is only testing or assignments and there is little time for assignments in the classroom as the time is usually spent teaching the lesson. This is in part why teachers give out homework. If you don't want to deal with homework hire a full time private tutor and homeschool.

No it is not
It just is not the only way
It may be the only way your dad dumb self knows but it is not the only way .

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't enforce homework are pathetic.

Homework has a purpose! It's to help gauge where kids may still need help on a topic or skill.

When I get homework papers back and see that 9 out of 18-22 kids all missed the same problem, I know that it's a topic we need to cover again. Guess when it's too late to cover that topic again? After they've taken a test and gotten a bad grade.

Parents don't want to enforce homework because they don't want to deal with whiny kids who don't want to do it. However, had you started a good routine from the beginning in K, you'd have no whiny kids. I have plenty of parents who send me emails that say exactly this. "Brandon isn't receptive to hw afterschool so we will not be participating."

So if roughly half the class fails the same area of a test, you keep pushing forward even when you know you haven’t effectively taught the material, then blame the parents? Why is that too late to fix? It sounds like a teacher issue or a structural issue with testing and scoring to me. It’s ridiculous to think the only way you can gauge progress is with homework and your hands are tied with no way to fix it if children don’t do lots of homework every night.

The only way to know if the material was effectively taught without a test is to give a homework assignment. There is only testing or assignments and there is little time for assignments in the classroom as the time is usually spent teaching the lesson. This is in part why teachers give out homework. If you don't want to deal with homework hire a full time private tutor and homeschool.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not condoning what the teacher did, but teachers (and I am not one) have paid the price for parents not parenting their kids during the pandemic.

I have empathy for the teacher, empathy for the teen, but likely very little for the teen's parents/guardians.

Or maybe you are seeing kids suffering the mental health impacts of the pandemic. Please stop blaming parents for all ‘bad behavior.’

Um, no. It's parents.

As a 6th grade middle school teacher, I see the direct results of lazy parenting each year. ES parents don't make their kids do any homework and are used to being able to strongarm the teachers into good grades. It doesn't work in middle school. I don't give a bunch of homework but when I give it, I expect it to be completed. Even though this is expressed to parents and students in a variety of different ways, after the first midterm grades come out, I always have some students and parents who are dumbfounded at how their kid has a bad grade.
DP, here. I understand that you’re posting from your grandma‘s basement and you don’t get out much. However, there are multiple educational schools of thought that assert that homework is pointless there are lots of schools lots of curriculums that don’t utilize homework.

Also, the way kids speak to teachers these days is insane. And why? Because they know there are no consequences.

The pandemic showed the US that 99.9% of parents view teachers as babysitters and nothing more.

This is my last year of teaching and I can't wait to never have to deal with a shitty parent again.

I am not a lazy parent but my child wont be doing elementary school homework. Especially not in K-2nd grade, around age 8 Ill start enforcing. If he wants to do it because its fun so be it but there is no reason he needs to spend 30-45 min doing homework at age 6. None. We can play word games, license plate games while driving for state capitals, cook/bake to work with fractions, read multiple books at night, etc.

It is engagement not homework that matters.

These items aside there is nothing my child could say to a teacher for me to accept that they were struck. Nothing. Teachers are adults. They can control themselves. Children are children and impulsive and testing boundaries and he would be punished at home (a LOT) but physical battery on behalf of the teacher is not acceptable.

Are you serious? You need to make sure your child does the required work. You are just what the teachers encounter - LAZY- and clueless.
Yes homework also matters!!!

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I'm sure the kid was at least 95% to blame. Kids say the most vile things these days.

The teacher's assistant who was arrested in Loudoun last month for hitting a kid... well, let's just say that the group chat I'm in with 8 other teachers was not at all sympathetic to the kid.

If that doesn't tell you something about the state of education in this area, nothing will.

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Anonymous wrote:It look like the kid said something bad to the teacher. While he shouldn't have slapped the brat it was obvious he purposely fell to the ground to stop him from taking him to the principals office. And to invoke drama and sympathy, lol There is probably a bigger problem with this kid, and the parents. Glad he's retiring with full benefits.

I hope the violoent piece of sh*t enjoys his jail cell. You people blaming the kid suck.

The kid sucks. There is just so long before you get your due-right or wrong.

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The only way to know if the material was effectively taught without a test is to give a homework assignment. There is only testing or assignments and there is little time for assignments in the classroom as the time is usually spent teaching the lesson. This is in part why teachers give out homework. If you don't want to deal with homework hire a full time private tutor and homeschool.

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't enforce homework are pathetic.

Homework has a purpose! It's to help gauge where kids may still need help on a topic or skill.

When I get homework papers back and see that 9 out of 18-22 kids all missed the same problem, I know that it's a topic we need to cover again. Guess when it's too late to cover that topic again? After they've taken a test and gotten a bad grade.

Parents don't want to enforce homework because they don't want to deal with whiny kids who don't want to do it. However, had you started a good routine from the beginning in K, you'd have no whiny kids. I have plenty of parents who send me emails that say exactly this. "Brandon isn't receptive to hw afterschool so we will not be participating."

Anonymous wrote:This coach grabbed a student who had a loaded gun at school. The county wants him suspended. The kids these days are out of control and the county and their parents are condoning it out of fear of lawsuits and laziness. What else should the teachers do?

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Anonymous wrote:It look like the kid said something bad to the teacher. While he shouldn't have slapped the brat it was obvious he purposely fell to the ground to stop him from taking him to the principals office. And to invoke drama and sympathy, lol There is probably a bigger problem with this kid, and the parents. Glad he's retiring with full benefits.

If you read the comments on the change.org petition for the teacher they claim the kid "fainted" on purpose.

I saw it on the video. It was more than obvious. His parents will say he was a model student no doubt.

He didn't "faint" on purpose. He was struck so hard his head cracked against a concrete wall, so he fell and cradled his head. It's a pretty normal defense mechanism if you are hit in the head. You curl up to protect your head.

Some of you trying to excuse this abuser are terrible.

Yeah, this kid has to be a POC they way you guys are defending thIs POS teacher. Because I know if a teacher had slapped little Becky or Thad like this if would have been a straight Karen situation and 100 gallon bucket to hold Karen’s tears.

Sorry to burst your race baiting bubble but the kid was white.

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Anonymous wrote:It look like the kid said something bad to the teacher. While he shouldn't have slapped the brat it was obvious he purposely fell to the ground to stop him from taking him to the principals office. And to invoke drama and sympathy, lol There is probably a bigger problem with this kid, and the parents. Glad he's retiring with full benefits.

If you read the comments on the change.org petition for the teacher they claim the kid "fainted" on purpose.

I saw it on the video. It was more than obvious. His parents will say he was a model student no doubt.

He didn't "faint" on purpose. He was struck so hard his head cracked against a concrete wall, so he fell and cradled his head. It's a pretty normal defense mechanism if you are hit in the head. You curl up to protect your head.

Some of you trying to excuse this abuser are terrible.

Yeah, this kid has to be a POC they way you guys are defending thIs POS teacher. Because I know if a teacher had slapped little Becky or Thad like this if would have been a straight Karen situation and 100 gallon bucket to hold Karen’s tears.

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Anonymous wrote:It look like the kid said something bad to the teacher. While he shouldn't have slapped the brat it was obvious he purposely fell to the ground to stop him from taking him to the principals office. And to invoke drama and sympathy, lol There is probably a bigger problem with this kid, and the parents. Glad he's retiring with full benefits.

If you read the comments on the change.org petition for the teacher they claim the kid "fainted" on purpose.

I saw it on the video. It was more than obvious. His parents will say he was a model student no doubt.

He didn't "faint" on purpose. He was struck so hard his head cracked against a concrete wall, so he fell and cradled his head. It's a pretty normal defense mechanism if you are hit in the head. You curl up to protect your head.

Some of you trying to excuse this abuser are terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't enforce homework are pathetic.

Homework has a purpose! It's to help gauge where kids may still need help on a topic or skill.

When I get homework papers back and see that 9 out of 18-22 kids all missed the same problem, I know that it's a topic we need to cover again. Guess when it's too late to cover that topic again? After they've taken a test and gotten a bad grade.

Parents don't want to enforce homework because they don't want to deal with whiny kids who don't want to do it. However, had you started a good routine from the beginning in K, you'd have no whiny kids. I have plenty of parents who send me emails that say exactly this. "Brandon isn't receptive to hw afterschool so we will not be participating."

So if roughly half the class fails the same area of a test, you keep pushing forward even when you know you haven’t effectively taught the material, then blame the parents? Why is that too late to fix? It sounds like a teacher issue or a structural issue with testing and scoring to me. It’s ridiculous to think the only way you can gauge progress is with homework and your hands are tied with no way to fix it if children don’t do lots of homework every night.