It goes with the "everyone gets a trophy so noone feels bad" crap. If children have a bad experience with something, it'll make them SAD! And they won't want to do it again!
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Aims - Nov 17, 2005 2:34:42 pm PST #5351 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Pix - Nov 17, 2005 2:38:22 pm PST #5352 of 10003
The status is NOT quo.
Being told that no teacher in the school can give a cumulative final exam because it's "too difficult" for the students to remember the beginning of the year...while simultaneously also decreeing that teachers are not allowed to give midterm exams because they are "too stressful", for example.
Yes, this is the situation I am currently facing. The school used to have midterms, but parental pressure changed all that.
Scrappy - Nov 17, 2005 2:40:15 pm PST #5353 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Annabel is one gorgeous kid. Wow.
Pix - Nov 17, 2005 2:41:02 pm PST #5354 of 10003
The status is NOT quo.
I'm pissy and tired and defensive. I've been here since 7:30 this morning and still have hours of grading to do tonight. I also haven't eaten all day and went to three meetings between teaching and planning and writing six billion parent emails and answering voicemails. I may not be in the best state of mind right now to be having this discussion. I'm sorry. I'll try to come back when I'm not so frazzled.
Amy - Nov 17, 2005 2:41:32 pm PST #5355 of 10003
Because books.
Kristin, I totally sympathize. I think public school teachers rock, and between parental pressure and the dictates of state-mandated curriculum, you're not left a lot of room to be creative and really challenge the kids, I bet.
Ben and Jake have had one mediocre teacher between them, and even he was just depressed, I think. Teaching is a hard, hard gig.
-t - Nov 17, 2005 2:41:55 pm PST #5356 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
No midterms and no cumulative exams?
Boggle.
Can you do end of section tests or is there no way to assess what learning goes on?
DawnK - Nov 17, 2005 2:43:27 pm PST #5357 of 10003
giraffe mode
of things being done for the child
This I've seen a lot of. In fact, my son's 4th grade teacher gave F's to several of the kids on their first book report because it was obvious to her that the parents had done the work not the kids.
Aims - Nov 17, 2005 2:43:33 pm PST #5358 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Children are not supposed to learn! Children are supposed to be happy and have everything done for them and kept in abubble until they are of age and then they are to be given a kick ass job where very little is expected of them and they make a ton of money!
Jeez.
You guys are all so out of it.
(Emeline! Get back in your bubble! If you want to move, Daddy will come and pick you up!)
vw bug - Nov 17, 2005 2:43:41 pm PST #5359 of 10003
Mostly lurking...
Wow, Kristin, that's just craziness. All of it. And get some food, sweetie!
I just did a Nielson movie survey. They're so much fun!
Speaking of surveys, I'm analyzing survey data. It's slow-moving, but TOTALLY fascinating.
JZ - Nov 17, 2005 2:45:41 pm PST #5360 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Being told that no teacher in the school can give a cumulative final exam because it's "too difficult" for the students to remember the beginning of the year...while simultaneously also decreeing that teachers are not allowed to give midterm exams because they are "too stressful", for example.
Um, that is totally craxy. And, God, how insanely frustrating for the teachers.
I'm sorry. I'll try to come back when I'm not so frazzled.
::hands Kristin a light snack, a chocolate martini, a lavender-scented handkerchief for her temples, and a masseuse on her way out::