Posted on 05/30/2019 7:39:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode
A Florida high school teacher raised eyebrows this week after allegedly writing “WTF is this?” on a student’s homework.
Melinda Smith, the student’s mother, told Panama City’s WJHG on Tuesday she was shocked when her son showed her his science homework with the comment: “WTF is this? absolutely no credit” written on top
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I’m not buying it
If one of my son’s teachers wrote that on some of his homework, I’d probably look very closely at the work and then turn around and say, “Well, answer the question - WTF is this crap?”
Still, you expect better from a teacher, who is supposed to be a role model.
There are a million ways to express the same thought without resorting to gutter language. Entirely inappropriate for a high school teacher.
... btw, the only time I ever lost a student was one time that I was harshly critical instead of positively critical, which is what I always strived to do. It was my idiot V.P.’s daughter, so might have been something more to it than just straight feedback, but I still regret the tone of my criticism.
Other than that I always remained positive, leaving it to the kids to decide if they wanted to act on my teaching or not. Teachers who insist on imposing outcomes on students will always lose them.
This seems to be caused not by the teachers, but by administrative rules which prohibit failing grades, permit students to turn in assignments late, retake tests as they choose, and other feats of no accountability. This environment is caused by lawsuits brought by parents because their little darlings don't deserve the grades they got or because something hurt their little bitty feelings.
Many believe the teachers are at fault. My observations indicate that parents are the primary problem: They just don't hold their little darlings accountable for anything, and they sure as crap don't drag them into church anymore. Young ones have no ethics.
Too bad so few of their parents aren’t role models.
Sounds like you drank the liberal cool-aid. Perhaps you don't teach math or science, where outcome is the objective. In real life, outcome is everything. Students will learn that too late it that liberal crap you are peddling continues.
Because her son is perfect. If he makes a bad grade, it is the teacher’s fault. If he gets a speeding ticket it is the policeman’s fault.Later in life when he gets shot while robbing the local 7-11 or liquor store by a cop or armed citizen, it is the fault of the cop or armed citizen. And there is a bumper crop of others just like him.
There is a teacher in my daughters school that has made one student burn his paper because “only an idiot would write such trash” the same teacher made another student in that same class write a paper on why he is a ‘burden on the taxpayers’.
(some) Teachers are the biggest bully’s and abusers of children
Isn’t that the truth.
Now I'll relate a real-life story about myself: I went off to college with that precious diploma, and majored in Physics and Math. The Physics department had its own computer, an IBM 1130. I threw myself at that machine, learning more about it than any of the professors knew. Eventually I made an attachment for that computer so that it could control a linear accelerator and take data from the target. It was necessary that I write a user's manual for that equipment. When I turned it in to the Physics professor in charge of the project, he said, "You did finish high school, didn't you? This is the most disorganized and illiterate piece of written trash I have ever seen." With no further comment, he threw it in the refuse can. He continued, saying, "Go rewrite this to show that you have an education, have important information you wish to impart, and give a damn".
I was crushed, yet I carefully rewrote that manual using the same style as the IBM manuals. He was happy with that version. I had a long career in engineering; and, writing good documentation was an important ingredient to my success.
I am very grateful to that Physics professor for kick-starting my ability to write proper documentation. I think you are foolish to imagine that harsh words from a teacher can be harmful. It was the tolerance of mediocrity that enabled poor quality work on my part.
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