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Elf - 2005-02-15 20:22:35
*hugs* they grow out of it eventually, honest. and there's bound to be a few who really really appreciate what you do.
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hissandtell - 2005-02-15 23:48:10
Hmmmm, I'm not sure that many of them will grow out of it, really. Teaching high school as I did (year 12s, in their final year before university) I was always pissed off beyond belief at how many of them failed to complete work, handed in half-arsed crap they expected ME to edit and correct before their final draft or just didn't hand in work at all. But what infuriated me even more is that schools have developed very strict policies for things like late or incomplete work and how those will be marked and will contribute to final grades, and therefore university entrance scores. Despite these guidelines, at the end of EVERY year, certain parents would realise at the last minute that their kid wasn't going to get into university, and would take the case right to the top - to the Education Minister - with some kind of completely fabricated complaint about how particular teachers had not done their job, or done all they could, to ensure students completed work. And in almost every case I can think of, the Minister directed the school principal to accept late work and have it marked (and this was usually in school holidays!) by some poor bloody teacher who'd been at the lazy shit of kid to hand the work in for months. So my feeling is that when parents and community are prepared to pull out all stops to get students like that through even though they clearly do not deserve thried, fourth and fifth chances, the students themselves will never, never learn to be accountable or take repsonsibility. Anyway, that's my rant. Hope you can work out a more acceptable solution than I was ever able to. Love, R xxx
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Elf - 2005-02-16 05:44:56
ok ... *many of them* will grow out of it - those who didn't, at my school, either didn't get a place in grade 11, or if by some fluke they did, they spent the whole time on report in upper school centre having the work dragged out of them ... our teachers were good to us!
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Michelle - 2005-02-16 06:09:27
It is definitely a case of being caught between a rock and a hard place. If we have too many F's, then the teachers are the ones who are failing. This means that we end up being very creative and, unfortunately, very lenient in accepting late work. I know that these kids are my problem for a year and that's it. They will end up being the kind of person their parents raise them to be. However, I can't seem to stop caring about them long enough to give them a grade they haven't earned.
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Miss Poola - 2005-02-16 10:51:42
This is an epidemic. I even see this on the ship - kids trying to weasel out of responsibility because their parents never let them "fail." It's tough. I feel really sorry for those kids.
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