Categoría:teacher-stories

10th-grade student asks his teacher why he has to capitalize his last name: ‘He hadn’t capitalized any proper nouns. He insisted his paper didn’t need fixing and was perfect.’

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Why are 15-year-olds asking the kinds of questions that 5-year-olds used to ask?  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 …
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Florida teacher cries in class because her 12th graders didn’t know cardinal directions or the regions of the United States: ‘They are so far behind, some can’t even spell simple words.’

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What should a teacher do in this situation? A lot of kids lack basic knowledge they should’ve learned in Elementary school. When I was in elementary school, we had a whole unit on reading clocks, but now that kids only use their phones to tell time, some schools don’t even bother, and the kids suffer …
Seguir leyendo Florida teacher cries in class because her 12th graders didn’t know cardinal directions or the regions of the United States: ‘They are so far behind, some can’t even spell simple words.’