Access to homework + quiz answers

PackMom
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:02:09 +0000

Had a similiar problem with S’s Spanish class (that he failed) last year. The teacher took up the homework and graded it but if she could see that more than half of it was wrong, then she would just give a “zero” grade rather than figuring out the actual number value. Anybody knows that even a 50 is better than 0 but she didn’t think it was worth her time.

Also students were never allowed to bring their tests home. She would return them in class so they could briefly see their grade and then take them back up. Since S basically failed almost every test, it could have been really helpful for him to bring it home and try to figure out the mistakes (teacher did not go over the test in class either) but it was against her policy. I talked to her several times and emailed a lot but S had done so poorly (she said he wasn’t trying) that she already had her mind made it. S personally knows of at least 7 kids who failed her class.

He signed up to retake the class this year and ironically was assigned the same teacher. His school is huge with lots of Spanish teachers. I stormed the guidance office and demanded a schedule change. After much finagling, it got changed. His new Spanish teacher is a football coach. S is a football player (another thing teacher 1 didn’t like). Hopefully we’ll have a better result this year