Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear teachers, in case you didn't know, students talk amongst themselves. So when the highest grade in an non-honors class is a B- and majority of the class are Cs and Ds, maybe question if there is anything wrong with the way you teach.

I 100% agree with the OP. Clearly a bunch of insecure, triggered teachers feel the need to put the blame on the parents, but if what OP is saying is true, the teacher is not doing a good job teaching. There really is no other explanation.

There's clearly some teachers who are just terrible teachers, but it's also possible that in this one section the kids are all pretty poor students (and parents who don't hold kids to high standards). Without context, it's hard to know.

A different poster upthread gave a series of reasons why it was pretty obvious an AP teacher was bad. OP didn't explain, other than poor grades. Well is most of the class just not turning anything in? Or is the teacher giving quizzes including concepts never covered in class?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d loooooove to see parents come in to model lessons.

Well, parents aren't teachers. I don't have your education and experience. So that would be a dumb thing to wish for.

So parents that have no education and experience with teaching, and are receiving all information secondhand from their students have permission to just come on here and bash teachers?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear teachers, in case you didn't know, students talk amongst themselves. So when the highest grade in an non-honors class is a B- and majority of the class are Cs and Ds, maybe question if there is anything wrong with the way you teach.

I 100% agree with the OP. Clearly a bunch of insecure, triggered teachers feel the need to put the blame on the parents, but if what OP is saying is true, the teacher is not doing a good job teaching. There really is no other explanation.

Anonymous wrote:Dear teachers, in case you didn't know, students talk amongst themselves. So when the highest grade in an non-honors class is a B- and majority of the class are Cs and Ds, maybe question if there is anything wrong with the way you teach.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

My kid does assignments, comes to reviews, homework is always done. He also has a tutor. Summative is 70% of his grade. SEVENTY. Homework and study guides are the remaining 30. Maybe don't put such a big emphasis on tests.

That sounds reasonable. Homework should be no more than 10%. Formative should be no more than 30%. That leaves summative at least 60%. Seventy percent is reasonable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d loooooove to see parents come in to model lessons.

Well, parents aren't teachers. I don't have your education and experience. So that would be a dumb thing to wish for.

So parents that have no education and experience with teaching, and are receiving all information secondhand from their students have permission to just come on here and bash teachers?

My student is nearly 17 and a straight A student. So, yes, they are capable of telling me what is happening and I'm able to see it from how the tests are administered and the class is doing. And you should really get a thicker skin.

Criticism is not "bashing teachers." Perhaps use it as a period of self-reflection. A LOT of the criticism teachers receive is unfair, I agree with you. But that doesn't mean none of it is. And in terms of my kids AP class upthread, it is absolutely warranted. She's dreadful. All of the kids hate her. All of the parents hate her.

Anonymous wrote:Class Grade Distributions should be available. Current and past. Trends should be of interest, there for all to see, by class, by teacher. Obviously, not identifiable by student. There needs to be transparency ... Ms Jone's 5th period class has half the students failing. Gee, something's wrong. Could be student performance. Too often parents think, certainly someone ... Dept Head, Principal, someone is paying attention to class grade distributions, at least periodically.

Anonymous wrote:Class Grade Distributions should be available. Current and past. Trends should be of interest, there for all to see, by class, by teacher. Obviously, not identifiable by student. There needs to be transparency ... Ms Jone's 5th period class has half the students failing. Gee, something's wrong. Could be student performance. Too often parents think, certainly someone ... Dept Head, Principal, someone is paying attention to class grade distributions, at least periodically.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d loooooove to see parents come in to model lessons.

Well, parents aren't teachers. I don't have your education and experience. So that would be a dumb thing to wish for.

So parents that have no education and experience with teaching, and are receiving all information secondhand from their students have permission to just come on here and bash teachers?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d loooooove to see parents come in to model lessons.

Well, parents aren't teachers. I don't have your education and experience. So that would be a dumb thing to wish for.

Anonymous wrote:Class Grade Distributions should be available. Current and past. Trends should be of interest, there for all to see, by class, by teacher. Obviously, not identifiable by student. There needs to be transparency ... Ms Jone's 5th period class has half the students failing. Gee, something's wrong. Could be student performance. Too often parents think, certainly someone ... Dept Head, Principal, someone is paying attention to class grade distributions, at least periodically.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d loooooove to see parents come in to model lessons.

Well, parents aren't teachers. I don't have your education and experience. So that would be a dumb thing to wish for.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear teachers, in case you didn't know, students talk amongst themselves. So when the highest grade in an non-honors class is a B- and majority of the class are Cs and Ds, maybe question if there is anything wrong with the way you teach.

I agree, unfortunately. My kid is NOT dumb and has always been all As and all AP/Honors classes.

This year there is an AP teacher who is just terrible. Assigns videos to learn the content. Says before tests that she made the test as hard as possible and there will be some tricks AS WELL as things she didn't teach. WTF? The class has had several tests where the entire class failed. Like, spectacularly failed. And she gave the entire class retakes. How is that teaching? The kids hate her. The parents hate her. And, she has single-handedly killed my child's love of the subject (a stem class where DC got an A in honors the year before).