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re: The Protocol for “Allowing a Student to Fail”

Posted on 9/14/18 at 3:46 pm to
Posted by Ellssu
Spying North of the Border
Member since Dec 2006
2478 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 3:46 pm to
follow the money, it's the same here in Arkansas. Small rural school not enough teachers for the backlog of students we would have. Lets make the teachers work harder.
Posted by stat19
Member since Feb 2011
29350 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 4:05 pm to
Every student gets a participation trophy.
Posted by DeafJam73
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
19122 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 4:19 pm to
Good god. No wonder kids today are fricking retarded.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
105160 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 4:28 pm to
They do it because the statistics for “success” in a school are in part due to graduation / promotional rates, NOT understanding the material.

Hence how you get dumbasses who are all the way through 12th grade but can’t graduate because they keep failing the exit exam.


Kids who are really dumb in one subject are generally promoted regardless of passing.

Kids who frick up in multiple subjects have summer school or repeat, depending exactly how many subjects they failed.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
105160 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 4:30 pm to
Right there with you.

I’ve got one that I’ve suggested to repeat but it hasn’t happened due to age and social concerns.

Problem is that the kid can’t hack it in math, which is probably the worst subject you can fail since it continually builds on what you have already learned.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122525 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 4:32 pm to
I can't say for sure if this is part of the problem. I have never read anything that makes this "official", but it seems like parenting is different today than when we all grew up.

Parents do not hold their kids responsible for anything (of course I don't mean ALL parents) and when a parent takes a child's side, no matter what, then they have no motivation to work towards anything. And the school system has to do something, otherwise they will be back the next year and they have to deal with the same bullshite over and over.
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
35970 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 4:39 pm to
Yeah. I’ve given Fs to a bunch of students. Sped included. If it gets changed, it’s not by me.

Posted by bowlbound
Member since Oct 2017
629 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 4:55 pm to
Sounds like you teach at Stanford University
Posted by scottfruget
Member since Nov 2010
3392 posts
Posted on 9/14/18 at 5:25 pm to
Sounds like he teaches at my school. Were you in my PLC’s this week? Is that you Coach?
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