He deserves it. He was power hungry and using a students grade to punish the student. The article said he halfed the students perfect score, that means the student did the work and did a good job on it. The teacher was just PO'ed he fell alseep.
I don't know. According to the article, the syllabus stated that a grade could be cut for wasting time in class. The students had to (or should have) known this. Also appears that he had had this policy for at least 10 years.
I don't know about that - the kid was made aware of the rules:
His course syllabus warns that wasting class time can "earn a zero for a student on assignments or labs.
Why is the assumption made that the student actually did the work ? If the kid sleeps in class, how does he get a perfect score on an assignment made in a class period that he probably slept thru ?
My question is, is this kid really an exemplary student (in all his other classes) or did someone "help out" this kid with his homework assignment(s) ?
Many teachers I know give a class participation, or daily, grade. That might be a more 'un-attackable' method of penalizing. If a kid sleeps through class, his daily grade would be a zero.
My son's seventh grade science teacher, who is a wonderful teacher, takes polaroids of kids sleeping in class and they are included in his montages that decorate the hallways at school, right in there with shots of the dissection of frogs, geese tagging field trip and class experiments. It is a very humorous way to get their attention.
I had a series of illnesses in High School that caused several absences during the years I attended. I made good grades, but was penalized due to attendance policies. No matter how hard I worked on the assignments, it didn't matter.... so I gave up after my sophmore year....barely graduating by the skin of my teeth.
BTW, I eventually went to college and graduated with scholastic honors.....much to the surprise of my parents, friends and "old teachers". *chuckle*
Yep. I'm with the BoE on this.
Well its about all a teacher has left. You can't smack em anymore.
The only discipline allowed to be done to kids now is to call the cops and turn them over to them. But of couse when that is tried its a scandal as well.
I'm glad I'm not a teacher.
Would your boss be mad that you fell asleep at work? It's the same thing.
So?
They don't fall asleep in class in Bangalore.