I AM going to bed, lol. After I reply to you.
My honors alg 2 teacher taught me and our class how to write a college research paper (back in the early 80’s, catholic school). The topic was math, mine was Descarte or something. But it was the first and only research paper before college. Taught me tons.
Heh, I have kids. (talking about you being biased to your kids). My two teens, anyway, dread asking me for help yet always want my help to edit their papers. And, I don’t just red pen them. I circle stuff, this is wrong, this is grammatically incorrect, say this better, this sentence doesn’t flow, you spelled this or that word wrong.
I agree, it is easier to hear some teacher overhaul your paper, but if you’re my kid, you would get used to it. My oldest will say, “but mom, how would you really grade this, I want to know what you’d give it since you’re a hard grader” So I tell her. Then she gets pissed, stomps off, but comes back eventually. This is why I don’t want to grade my kids. They know I’m tough and they want me to be honest but I’m still their mom. It’s so hard to edit their papers because I’m hard. And all the stomping and slamming doors. It gets annoying. We don’t even need to add all the hormonal crap.
This is why I could NEVER teach grade school. Those kids are too damn cute, I couldn’t grade them. Seriously, how can one give a grade to a little 6 yr old? I’m so much better with middle and high school. Those little ones can wrap me around their fingers. Heh, forget my own kids. There would either be no objectively or the opposite, too much trying to compensate.
I can help my kids but I’m mommy first. That’s the way it should be imo.
Yep. I understand that too. Your last paragraph. I learned discipline at home but also in 13 yrs of catholic school. One was NEVER tardy, it was worse than being absent and I still carry that to this day. Any assignment due, points off if late, no excuses. Taught me well. Life isn’t easy, not everyone is one’s parents willing to love you no matter what. :) Oh and in college, after spending 13 yrs in catholic school, I didn’t know what to do with the 2 free cut days. Freshman year, most of my profs talked about 2 free cut days, no questions asked. I was like, huh? We can just not come to class if we’re not sick? Totally new world for me. Needless to say, I didn’t cut often. Cutting was not an option in Catholic high school and it’s not in my teens public high school.
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I never skipped in college either. I was at almost every class (even when I had a bad ear infection).
The only times I skipped were when I knew I was not missing anything huge. Oh..and once I had a psychology professor who wrote his own book and tested directly from it. So I never went to class and read the book for each test and got an A.