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OT: No Zero Policy
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I just thought some of you might be interested in this article about a teacher in my city. He is being reprimanded, and very probably fired because he gives zero on assignments that are not handed in or exams that are not written.
Reason #6789 why I’m glad we are homeschooling.
Joanne
Crazy. I dropped out of the education department at my college after the SECOND class in which I was told “Students never fail, only teachers do–no student should EVER fail” And they MEANT it.
AAHH!!!! This kind of stuff is what makes my head explode!!
Thank you L-rd that I”m homeschooling!
I have nothing deeper to add…
It was nice to see that almost all of the comments supported the teacher and felt that the No Zero Policy was wrong.
I heard somewhere that many schools no longer allow teacher’s to use red to correct mistakes/give grades because it can hurt a child’s feelings. Really????? That’s what we’re going to spend our time debating?
yes, it’s true-the red pen is banned in some schools because of the “emotional effect it has”. There is so much wrong in the gov’t schoool system; it’s no wonder they’re turning out entitled feeling adolescents who can’t handle consequences for their decisions or understand the concept of work.
My dad (a teacher) fought a similar fight in the early 1980’s….
and in the late 80’s, early 90’s, there was a movie called “Teachers” (not a family movie by any means) that talks about this issue – in the movie a student was suing the school because he graduated and couldn’t read…. it came out in the movie that students that didn’t come to class or hand things in were giving a passing grade because there was nothing to base the grade on, and “it was policy”.
I actually went to the high school in the article, and it makes me sad that this is occuring there.
I read a similar article about a teacher in Ontario a few years back. I read another one that said that students are coming out of grade 12 an average of 2 years behind their counter parts of 25 years ago in terms of being ready to meet the expectations of college. This kind of policy is a really good reason why.
Society in general doesn’t expect enough of teenagers. It’s depressing.
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