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.
The
hell?
What are the parents going to do when the kid grows up? Go to the kid's boss and say, "it's not fair to expect little Bratleigh to have month-end figures for you every month--it's too stressful."
Lot of public school teachers here. Just saying.
I know. YMMV with schools and teachers. I'm just being a parent who will be annoying involved in his daughter's education. Unless Annabel turns out to be a super-prodigy who gets her PhD in physics at 9, she's going into Seattle Schools.
And I, honestly, was the product of some really terrible public schooling. I had 2-3 teachers in high school who gave a rat's ass about me or about education. The rest were too busy getting drunk or writing out detention slips or planning on their retirement to teach.
Yet the very process of application to select colleges undermines both the goal of education and the inherent strengths of young people. "It makes kids sneaky," says Anderegg. Bending rules and calling in favors to give one's kid a competitive edge is morally corrosive.
Got a point there. Though not what I'd call a new problem.
wobbles in
Thanks for the birthday wishes and ~ma, gang! I'm still kind of fuzzy-headed, but I suspect that is due more to the 4 hours of sleep I got last night instead of the drugs.
JILLI! Happy Birthday and good recovery and stuff.
You know what, never mind. It was a cheap shot about NCLB, but it came out wrong. This is not the post you're looking for. Move along.
Happy birthday, Jilli! So glad you're home and groggy but okay!
