“He didn’t fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that’s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn’t deserve that.””
Certainly accurate.
In my youth, I was a 4.0 honor roll student with a bright future. Long story short, I failed an important class - my first fail EVER - but the devil is in the details:
HALF of the class failed at semester. My counselor didn’t care, administrators didn’t care. I’ve made the same claim for 40 years, that the teacher - and, by consequence, the school - failed me.
4 decades ago. Whenever I shared this story, all I ever received was silence and obvious judgment.
Well, touche’. Color me shocked. /s And yet the band plays on.
Pathetic.
If I’d had children, they NEVER would have been in a public school.
Seems to me that your story differs in important ways from that being depicted in the story.
I had a similar situation.
Straight A student. In my Senior year. Taking Calculus.
There were two pre-Calculus teachers and only one of them also taught Calculus.
If you were unlucky enough to have had the teacher that didn’t teach calculus, you were failing. If your pre-calculus teacher was now your calculus teacher, you were getting A’s.
The calculus teacher had reasons...you will get used to her methods, there was a “trick” to taking her tests...
My dad was a teacher at a different high school. He went to the Parent’s Open House and confronted her in front of all the other parents. After she gave her lame excuses, my dad said...
“I have been teaching for over 20 years. I have two masters degrees in education and enough credits for my doctorate. It is my opinion that this teacher is incompetent and I am removing my son from her class. I suggest you do so as well.”
The class went from 30 students to 13.
I had an instructor in college who was just a bad instructor. We weren’t just dummies as we were a aspiring electrical engineers. I know he was bad when he was out for several classes and another instructor came in and taught the class for a few days and for the time he taught, many of us understood the concepts.