"Oh! My little sweetums isn't going to get into Harvard* because of you!" Teachi

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Are_grits_groceries (17,135)

"Oh! My little sweetums isn't going to get into Harvard* because of you!" Teaching "the entitled."

"Oh! My little sweetums isn't going to get into Harvard* because of you!" Teaching "the entitled."

"Oh! My little sweetums isn't going to get into Harvard* because of you!"

*Insert any college or university here.

I heard this all the time when I had Parent/Teacher conferences because 'little sweetums' had been punished or had not gotten an A+++++++++++++++.

I remember one meeting which was held because I had given 2 students ZEROES for cheating. One was showing the other his answers. It wasn't even close, and they both admitted it. The parents of the 'show-er' didn't think he was cheating. I never heard from the parents of the 'show-ee.'

They refused to believe it was cheating. I refused to debate the semantics of the situation. They could call it 'out of the goodness of his hearting' for all I cared. He got a ZERO. This didn't compute in their universe because ZERO was a temperature or a nickname for a Japanese plane in WWII, but not a grade.

I was told ad nauseum about what cheating was and wasn't. I was also told I would be held responsible for his failure to get into Harvard or Oxford or whatever ultra-elite school that was the flavor of the month. I told them he was in the NINTH grade and that it was the FIRST month of the school year. He had plenty of time to pull the grade up and make an A. He wasn't doomed, and I didn't require ZERO to be written on his forehead in indelible red magic marker like some educational version of Hester Prynne. They wanted to know if she had gotten a ZERO also.(facepalm ran through my mind)

This was the opening of a new play at Hawthorne High School. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was a major character in this offering. I was hounded for weeks about giving the poor, bedraggled little person a retest. His counselor told me that they did that all the time at the middle school he came from. She didn't agree with it, but that's where a lot of it started.

I finally got so fed up with the almost daily conferences with somebody about it that I told the principal it had better stop. I gave her my written resignation and said that I was leaving if I heard one more word about it. I told her that I didn't have another job, but I thought that blowing grass clippings off medians was preferable to this torture. She said to keep teaching and she would take care of it. I thought she should be able to because she was responsible for 99% of it.

I wasn't sure what the parents thought. I wasn't going to send out a form letter to every school about the incident so the child wouldn't be accepted. Nor did I keep a calendar to remind me in 4 years to find out where he was applying so I could haunt the committee that considered possible enrollees.

These types of children were doomed IMHO. The parents refused to let any type of punishment be given because it would spoil the record of their child. I thought it was better to let them suffer the consequences now which were minor rather than bail them out all the time. They wouldn't be able to bail them out of life later on.

When this topic came up as it inevitably did when parents were running interference, I always wanted to tell them to save up because if they weren't using that cash for Harvard later, they might be using it to post a bond somewhere.

(I know people will now jump in to tell me how their child was unfairly treated in some situation. I'm not against a parent coming to the defense of a child when necessary. I'm dealing with kids who are never wrong no matter what.)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220973762

Scary that you were a teacher...🙄

[ADsOutburst]

Sounds like Democrats teaching young Democrats. But good for that teacher calling out the students for cheating.

[SVPete]

This is the gutless administratio education schools and state/Federal educrats produced.

This is the clue-free entitlement "community organizers" and activists produce.

This is the education Carter's NEA-payoff Department of Education produced in almost 50 years.

This is the public school inverted paradise into which POrogs would force private- and home-schooled children.


What are the odds that a digest of DU-threads and DU-posts about private schools and homeschooling would be >>90% hostile to those means of education?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I find it hard to believe that any of her students would ever be candidates for Harvard.

[DefiantSix]

I find it hard to believe that any of her students would ever be candidates for Harvard.

You never know.

After all, the mouth breather Big Mike's Li'l Bitch scored entry into Harvard AND Columbia Universities. What used to be a place for a good education are now granting admittance to anybody who parrots back the correct GroupThink.

[SVPete]

Even Bugtussle Community College has standards ... .

[67 Rover]

I gave her my written resignation and said that I was leaving if I heard one more word about it.

Who does this?  I smell bouncy.

[CollectivismMustDie]

I find it hard to believe that any of her students would ever be candidates for Harvard.

Ahem. David hogg.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Ask this DUmmy whether they support the borders being left open by the previous admin.

The answer is without a doubt yes.

Ask them if they support the census counting bodies rather than citizens.

The answer is without a doubt  yes.


Now we know how they really feel about cheating.

[ADsOutburst]

Ask this DUmmy whether they support the borders being left open by the previous admin.

The answer is without a doubt yes.

Ask them if they support the census counting bodies rather than citizens.

The answer is without a doubt  yes.


Now we know how they really feel about cheating.

Ask the cheating students those same questions. If they answer 'yes', maybe college isn't for them.

[SVPete]

BTW, proper Karen-Speak is, My Little Angel.

[Ptarmigan]

Going to Harvard, like many colleges is going to cost an arm and a leg.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Going to Harvard, like many colleges is going to cost an arm and a leg.

Old bob must have only had half of the tuition.

 

[RonE]

I don't know all that much about the educational system other than it makes a strong argument in favor of home-schooling. Teachers who actually prioritize the student's education are like a good cop in NYC. The system they belong to probably won't have your back if the going gets tough.

[SVPete]

I don't know all that much about the educational system other than it makes a strong argument in favor of home-schooling. Teachers who actually prioritize the student's education are like a good cop in NYC. The system they belong to probably won't have your back if the going gets tough.

Great, sad but true, analogy. Many police officers understand that their city councils hate them, and police accordingly. I wonder how many teachers have made the connection that their schools' adminicrats will backstab them for fun and convenience.

[Airwolf]

I have had relatives in the school system as teachers, and this would never happen. Granted most of my relatives were working before the ways things are now but there is one working now and I don't think he would be doing something like quitting his job because some parent didn't like the outcome of their kids' education. Some kids just are not that smart and as the old movie quote goes, "Well, the world need ditch diggers too."