Strange, but nowhere in the article did I see anyone denying the validity of the charge. The kid isn’t doing her homework and the teacher is just recognizing that accomplishment.
I teach a pre-core class at the local community college, so this should be a class that students take in their first or second semester of college. This year, I had a student contact me THREE TIMES requesting that his grade be brought up from the F he earned. He did not turn in at least 10 projects / quizzes / assignments over a 16-week semester and failed every test, but he still requested that his grade be raised so he could continue getting financial aid. Oh, and so his mom wouldn’t be mad at him.
Maybe if someone had taken him aside ten years ago when he was in third grade, perhaps he would understand the connection between grades and turning in an assignment.
Even last week, in one of my “professional level” classes, one of the students walked out of the lab without showing me his work. I stopped him before he left the building and he said, “Well, I’ve already taken it off my computer. Can’t you just give me a grade?”
Here in the metroplex, over half of my community college students fail the courses, primarily because they don’t do the homework.
Flunk the kid or hold her back a year. Heck, it's a charter school - kick her butt out for underperformance. These things would just as effectively punish her and her mother. getting other kids in on the act teaches nothing. (Though I suppose it teaches the other kids in the class that it's better to be on the side the shaming mob.)
Flunk the kid or hold her back a year. Heck, it's a charter school - kick her butt out for underperformance. These things would just as effectively punish her and her mother. getting other kids in on the act teaches nothing. (Though I suppose it teaches the other kids in the class that it's better to be on the side the shaming mob.)