stan wrote:HH3 wrote:Pseudo wrote:Pag wrote:This note from a parent this morning, and the plenty of others like it:
'Can you please excuse ....... from any oral presentations today as she ate a packet of chips last night and has an extremely sore throat today".
Wow.
I trust this student will be graded 'D' or less, and a comment about non-participation in class activity will be made on the report card?
I've been told by my mother in law, who has been teaching for a very long time, that they are not allowed to write anything negative on report cards anymore. She's not happy about it.
She's also being pressured to give a kid an A, that she doesn't think deserves one.
One of the big issues is that during school years we seem to reward mediocrity. The system it seems would have us all tell someone good job for trying hard even if your not even close rather than addressing the issue at hand.
This is literally a parent allowing a student to get out of an assessment task because said student may find it a bit intimidating, scary, or perhaps out of her comfort zone. How the parent expects the child to improve any skills without having to develop and apply a bit of resilience, I have no idea.
The student is doing it tomorrow, on the last day of term, although said student (and parent) doesn't know it yet.