Was this dad in the right, or should he have sided with his wife? When I was younger, I couldn’t really relate to kids who had to get straight As no matter what. Maybe that was because I was an A- or B+ student, but I was always annoyed when people acted like getting the …
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College student is forced to do group project alone without help from partners, gets rewarded by professor when he discovers who did all the work: ‘I got an A, and strangely, they stopped talking to me’
Have you ever taken part in a group project in which everybody did an equal share of the work? If you have, well then, congratulations, you are truly one in a million. Most of us, the unlucky regular folks, usually find ourselves doing all the work for people we barely know, just because we want …
Seguir leyendo College student is forced to do group project alone without help from partners, gets rewarded by professor when he discovers who did all the work: ‘I got an A, and strangely, they stopped talking to me’
Parents Demand Teacher Give Their 8th Grader More Extra Credit Because His Grade of 87 is Significantly Below Their Expectations
Shouldn’t he accept the grade that he has? When I was younger, I could not particularly relate to the kids who had to get straight As no matter what. Maybe that was because I was an A- or B+ student, but I was always annoyed when people acted like getting the grade that you earned …
Seguir leyendo Parents Demand Teacher Give Their 8th Grader More Extra Credit Because His Grade of 87 is Significantly Below Their Expectations
Teacher Proposed Canceling Graduation Because All of Her Students Graduate No Matter How Low Their Grades Are
Are high school graduations really worth celebrating? In days of yore, it was more difficult to graduate from high school. Graduating from high school was seen as an actual academic achievement, rather than merely a ceremony that marks your transition from childhood to adulthood. You could argue that a high school diploma serves both purposes, …
Seguir leyendo Teacher Proposed Canceling Graduation Because All of Her Students Graduate No Matter How Low Their Grades Are
School District Forces Teacher to Pass Senior Student Who Has Missed 49 out of 83 Classes and Earned Zeros on Most Quizzes
Why should he get to graduate when he never came to class? Schools have a major incentive to pass their students, even when they don’t deserve to pass and matriculate to the next grade. They don’t want their school’s graduation rate to be low. If only 60% of high school seniors graduate, the school looks …
Seguir leyendo School District Forces Teacher to Pass Senior Student Who Has Missed 49 out of 83 Classes and Earned Zeros on Most Quizzes
Professor assigns students an open-book take home exam, 25% of the class don’t do it: ‘It’s 40% of the total grade.’
How much easier could they have made this assignment? There’s something so refreshing about a teacher or a college professor who is actually strict. They state upfront that they know that all of the emails about losing your childhood dog that are conveniently sent the week of midterms are phony, and they won’t capitulate to …
Seguir leyendo Professor assigns students an open-book take home exam, 25% of the class don’t do it: ‘It’s 40% of the total grade.’
16-year-old celebrates her passing grade with a boy in her class, enrages her 17-year-old boyfriend who gets straight As: ‘He’s never happy for me.’
She needs to dump this boyfriend because, clearly, he isn’t happy for her when she succeeds. He’s too self-centered to realize that other people have different goals from his.
Mom forbids her 17-year-old son from seeing his girlfriend after he failed his French exam: ‘He got every answer wrong except for 2 on a 50 question exam.’
Is this a reasonable punishment, or is his mom pushing him too hard to succeed academically? Every parent has different grounds for grounding their kids. Were you one of those kids who couldn’t hang out with your friends if your GPA dropped below a 4.0? If so, I’m sorry that your childhood was like that. …
Seguir leyendo Mom forbids her 17-year-old son from seeing his girlfriend after he failed his French exam: ‘He got every answer wrong except for 2 on a 50 question exam.’
Professor tells college class that critical thinking is not important: ‘They grade assignments with AI, they respond to emails with AI, the teacher’s assistant is AI.’
Anyone who thinks that critical thinking is not important should not be a college professor. What is the point of attending college? A great deal of the population thinks that college should be akin to trade school, where you train for a specific job and only that job. You get a Nursing degree to become …
Seguir leyendo Professor tells college class that critical thinking is not important: ‘They grade assignments with AI, they respond to emails with AI, the teacher’s assistant is AI.’
Mom insists 15-year-old daughter be the bigger person after an argument with her 40-year-old stepdad: ‘Ma’am, I am literally 15.’
She shouldn’t have to be a bigger person compared to two adults. Many parents expect their teenagers to act more mature than they do. It’s absurd for a grown-up who cannot regulate their own emotions to expect their child, who is in the throes of puberty, to be able to be entirely emotionally mature. It …
Seguir leyendo Mom insists 15-year-old daughter be the bigger person after an argument with her 40-year-old stepdad: ‘Ma’am, I am literally 15.’