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falllpoutboy · 1 year ago

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when teachers complain about students being passed on to the next grade when they’re obviously behind on grade level by two+ years/grades, why do parents automatically point their fingers at their teachers lmao?? yes students missed up to 1.5-2 years in face-to-face learning due to the pandemic and the remote learning policies depending on their location so now that they’re back for in-person learning like we’re just doing our job and teaching them to the best of our abilities, but due to the curriculum and the policies in place (depending on where you live obvs), we have no choice but to pass them on. teachers make attempts to bring attention to a student’s attendance and grades to their parents but if the parents can’t follow up on the emails we send, the phone calls we make, the voicemails we leave and the parent-teacher conferences requests we send, then that sends a clear message that you don’t care about your kids education beyond the bare fucking minimum.

we get it, parents are busy and have jobs and other priorities and every parent and student has a different story. but if your kid is 12 y/o and is in the 7th grade and is reading/writing at a 4th grade level, is incapable of reading a 200 page novel and goes straight to tiktok or to their ps5 immediately after school, then we are not the problem!!!

#now i understand why my k-8 school said we should read at least 30 minutes a day.#they have no comprehension skills. no decoding skills. no vocabulary skills.#when i was a sub last year and i assigned this 5th grade class (regular and not advanced) to write a paragraph about an important woman in-#their life for womens history month and they literally did not know what a paragraph was.#you can go to any school rn and ask any kid if they like to read and 9 times out of 10 they will say no #and if any of you idiots say reading isn’t important these KIDS are our FUTURE. future doctors nurses police etc etc #not all them of are going to be influencers so yes they need to learn how to critically analyze text and write about it #my mom had a p/t conference a few months ago for her 7th grd student bc he was underperforming and she asked the parent if he had a bedtime #bc the student was always sleeping in class and the parent said no and that he goes straight to playing video games after school #like i hate to break it to some of you but education is a 50-50 process that has to be met halfway at HOME #respectability politics and caring abt trivial shit like lgbt ‘propaganda’ in schools will be the death of education #bc the processes and the curriculum doesn’t allow for lengthy remediation we have to move on to the next topic and yes pass all the student #education #important

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