Geometry teacher not grading homework. Is this a "thing"?

Consolation
Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:55:21 +0000

I’m more familiar with the scenario in which a bright kid masters the material and does very well on tests and quizzes, but is downgraded for not turning in homework that is for them meaningless. I think that’s ridiculous. If the teacher goes over the homework in class, and addresses problems that kids have trouble with in more detail, what more could you want? The point is to master the material. If your student is turning up in class every day with a lot of wrong answers, then it is his or her responsibility to pay attention and find out why during review. If that isn’t enough, then s/he needs to ask the teacher for help.

My H taught a pre-calc class at a local college as an adjunct. He was instructed by the regular professor, who was taking a leave, to just grade homework as done or not, although wrong answers were noted. I helped him with this, and it was VERY obvious that many of the students in this class were simply copying down the answers in the back of the book, showing no work. They made no attempt to actually do the problems, week after week. They then flunked the tests–and the course–en masse. This was the norm at this college in this course. The pre-test review, BTW, worked through the exact same problems that would be on the test, but with different numbers Some of these students then claimed that things were on the test that they had never been taught! These were students who had never learned how to learn.