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Great...now the libs are teaching that 1 - 1 = 1/2
She should have given them -100s.
0s should be for people who turn in their work but get everything wrong.
I am getting tired of this excuse of “You don’t know what’s going on in their home” as if all children are exposed to horrible parenting.
That USED TO BE a non-issue- parents behaved responsibly and they taught their kids to behave responsibly.
Decades of liberalism has led to this.
Public schools engage in wholesale child abuse.... routinely...
yes at my son’s school he received zeros whenever he failed to turn in assignments. He got an F in his second quarter humanities, likewise in the year before.
I think he gets it now...a ZERO will completely destroy your average.
Had I not turned in an assignment and still got a 50%, not only would the teach have felt the wrath of my dad but I'd still be grounded today........
A zero be like....raycis....and sh-t.
Put this stupidity right along side of participation trophies. For those idiots who tell me “Everyone’s a winner!”, their kids are going to get a hard punch in the nose when they try to find a job.
It’s been years since teachers have been allowed to give anything below a 70 much less a 0. No one fails and everyone gets a participation ribbon. The latest is HS not recognizing valedictorians.
My friend is an excellent HS Art teacher. She tells me that of those who are punkish,
lousy students she barely passes them because she doesn’t want them retaking her class and being the same thorny problem child’s again.
True words words
My children got zeroes if they did not turn work in. Why should they get a grade if they did not do the work? They thought it was no big deal until that zero was figured into their average. Then the wailing and gnashings began. My response,”Tough noogies. You were warned.” Lesson learned. From that point the work did get done.
PS. They went to Port St. Lucie schools but not this one.
My brother teaches in a district that just instituted this insanity. He’s furious. It’s considered one of the best districts in the state too
I applaud Ms. Tirano.I taught middle school science for 35 years and can honestly say I was surrounded by liberal IDIOTS.
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Sometime, somewhere, somehow, kids need to learn that their actions or inactions have consequences.
I would have done the same thing as this teacher.
pathetic school system, set up to FAIL, because they get funding if they PASS the kids so the teachers aren’t allowed to fail them.
I had 2 kids in public school in orlando and what.a.joke it is. They both failed 11th grade and were allowed to come back for 12th grade. One left completely and the other is now in 12th, doing nothing, and there’s no recourse.
BTW, where’s DeVos? Where’s a shake up in public schools?
I have a professor friend who says his grading software will not allow him to give a failing grade. School policy, he discovered.