re: How Would You Respond To This Email

Team Teacher, though I didn't read the parents email.


Passing high school is really freaking easy, it just takes a little bit of work, barely.

So yea, if you're failing or barely passing, you're probably not trying, and that's on you.

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I'm a teacher and most of my class is struggling (that's what this sounds like) then I might need to take a look at how I'm presenting the content, the work I'm assig

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Meh, as a high school teacher myself, for most of the kids failing right now it is almost entirely due to the students doing jack crap. In my previous 7 years of teaching I've never had a failure rate over like 10 percent or so, this year I currently have like a 60-65 percent failure rate in my classes, and all the kids failing have between zero to 30 percent in their project/homework categories.

We were online for half the first quarter, and in person since (two weeks into second quarter now), and nothing has really changed since we came back in person as far as student effort.

As far as that email goes, that teacher was an idiot with his condescending attitude and several comments he made (the not needing to see the students faces one in particular). And if he hasn't been emailing before the grades closed that's BS as well. But the overall message that students are being lazy and need to get it together is acceptable, as long he has been sending out the semi regular grade reports the entire time.