I learned most of what I know without the presence of teachers. It is the student who learns, or doesn’t learn. The teacher is a facilitator. Blaming teachers is foolish, and won’t solve any problems.
Yep, I told my kids, YOU are responsible for your education, not the school, the principals nor the teachers. They are there to help (or not help). And of course parents have to step up and accept their role as well.
I take it that you are a teacher, or support teachers and their union. A student can only go so far and be only so successful, in general, depending on their teacher, that the students are all failing, it’s not a reflection on the students, individually, may be on their families, but absolutely it is a reflection upon the teachers in the schools.
I agree. Kids don’t develop the habit of blowing off school in the last semester of their senior year.
School isn’t always fun. But teachers need to make it worthwhile. That too doesn’t start in the senior year. Clearly, these students did not see enough value in their attendance.