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Students' grades suffer after teacher misplaces their assignments
Wilhamette Week ^
| June 5th, 2007
Posted on 06/05/2007 5:45:29 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
For a class of Jefferson High School students trying to explain missing grades to their parents, there's a new excuse: It's called "my teacher never returned my homework." Last month, students discovered two boxes of ungraded assignments in math teacher Yaw Osei's classroom. When third-quarter report cards went out in April, Osei's students got "NGs" for "no grade," according to a letter from Macarre Traynham of the school's Academy of Science and Technology. The students will get semester grades based on their fourth-quarter work, but Yollanda Johnson, whose grandson was in the class, wonders if he might have performed better if he'd had appropriate updates on his progress. District spokesman Matt Shelby says he can't comment on personnel matters but notes the principal has options for helping Osei in the classroom.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: publicskools; publikskoolz
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To: metmom; little jeremiah; Aquinasfan; wintertime
It sounds funny, but for the affected students and their parents, it was no laughing matter.
I’ve never heard of homeschooling parents doing anything like this. Something to think about.
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posted on
06/05/2007 5:47:00 PM PDT
by
Clintonfatigued
(If the GOP were to stop worshiping Free Trade as if it were a religion, they'd win every election)
To: Clintonfatigued
Grades don’t matter anyways. What’s important is their self esteeeeeeem. /sarc
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posted on
06/05/2007 5:47:13 PM PDT
by
highimpact
(Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
To: Clintonfatigued
This actually happened to me in college, and as a class we were ticked off.
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posted on
06/05/2007 5:49:08 PM PDT
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: Clintonfatigued
More justification for the TEA to defend NOT testing teachers for competence.
/s
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posted on
06/05/2007 5:53:22 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Give me 10 days and we'll be at war with those SOB's - I'll make it look like their fault!")
To: Sonny M
My kid had a college class last term and as of the end of class the teacher still had not graded assignments that were handed in in March. She didn’t make the grade reporting deadline and gave all the students an “incomplete” even though it was she who hadn’t done the work. She eventually got around to grading the work and recording the grade, and the “incomplete” disappeared from the transcript and was replaced by their grade. He’s a senior and it’s the only prof who he’s ever had that kind of trouble with. The entire class was complaining.
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posted on
06/05/2007 5:55:53 PM PDT
by
dawn53
To: Clintonfatigued
Hard to say Guilty or Not Guilty without a photo.
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:00:40 PM PDT
by
gotribe
( I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution... - Grover Cleveland.)
To: Clintonfatigued
Look for the Union label.
To: dawn53
My kid had a college class last term and as of the end of class the teacher still had not graded assignments that were handed in in March. She didnt make the grade reporting deadline and gave all the students an incomplete even though it was she who hadnt done the work. She eventually got around to grading the work and recording the grade, and the incomplete disappeared from the transcript and was replaced by their grade. Hes a senior and its the only prof who hes ever had that kind of trouble with. The entire class was complainingThat is exactly what happened with me.
The students in the class complained to her (she made excuses) and then went over her head, and she finally got around to grading them and us finally getting our grades.
I wound up getting her a couple of times after that too, she was always late getting us back our assignments and tests and stuff, but at least after this happened, she did make her deadlines, part of ticked everyone off so much was that she made such a big deal about following her deadlines with serious penalties and she was never on time for anything.
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:04:16 PM PDT
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: Clintonfatigued
I had a college professor - a notorious drunk - who lost my final. I had been pulling a rock-solid “A” up until that point. Man, I was *****d!!
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:06:00 PM PDT
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: dawn53
In High School I had a teacher that would “joke” and say he finally got our essay papers graded by throwing them down the stairs and where they landed determined their grade. Also that he would grade them at stop lights. Ha Ha.
However, after being gone for a month or so for Alcholism treatment, our essays came back with gramatical errors, spelling mistakes, and comments. (Before treatment there was just a grade on the front page!)
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:09:31 PM PDT
by
geopyg
(Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
To: dawn53
There were a couple of profs in our law school like that. They’d sit on the finals for two months or so before grading them. Finally, the faculty board passed a measure that withholds a profs paycheck if they don’t have it done in a month.
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:11:48 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: truthkeeper
I had a college professor - a notorious drunk - who lost my final. I had been pulling a rock-solid A up until that point. Man, I was *****d!!
Shoulda attached your paper to a bottle. You woulda kept your “A!”
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:15:13 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Grizzled Bear
Actually, I SHOULD have fought it - kicked myself over the years - but I just had a baby and complications and was sick as a dog for weeks afterward. Somehow I could not dredge up the energy to fight the system and this long-tenured professor, even though his little "problem" was an open secret around the joint.
Anyway, the baby was a lot more important in the long run! :-)
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:19:12 PM PDT
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: truthkeeper
You made the right choice! God bless you!
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:23:22 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Grizzled Bear
Uh-huh...I think so too. She's now 22, gorgeous, and a musical prodigy.
Gotta know your priorities sometimes. :-)
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:28:02 PM PDT
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: geopyg
“gramatical errors, spelling mistake”
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:32:37 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: truthkeeper; ExTexasRedhead
This seems to happen more than anyone is aware.
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:38:51 PM PDT
by
Clintonfatigued
(If the GOP were to stop worshiping Free Trade as if it were a religion, they'd win every election)
To: geopyg
In High School I had a teacher that would joke and say he finally got our essay papers graded by throwing them down the stairs and where they landed determined their grade.
AKA, the staircase method.
To: Lord Basil
LOL. Kinda like “The dog ate YOUR homework.”
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posted on
06/05/2007 6:43:04 PM PDT
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
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