School was a Bummer
Came home with a tension headache after a horrendous day at school.
One of the seniors who failed my class with some 60+ days absent and a failing grade point average caused a terrible ruckus. Included were a number of threats against me. I was pretty ugly.
Hopefully, the administrator in charge has found a solution where the girl will make up time and classwork in a modified summer school program suited to her work schedule. She really does need her job, which I understand, but I also could not certify her as passing when she in no way mastered 60% of the course material.
Anyhow, by the time I administered one more final exam, graded that and then calculated all the year end grade averages and submitted the required grades, I was worn out.
Never guess what I didn't do when I got home.
Don't think the Boys care. They look happy.
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you mean the girl has to work a job AND go to school?
ReplyDeleteI approve of you sticking to your guns, grade inflation is rife in this country and is helps no-one to pretend that failure is success.
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Claire, we have lots of students who do that. There is a program for seniors to leave 1/2 day of school to go out on the job. It is a vocational/technical school so those kids have a shop class for the last half of the day so the job replaces that.
ReplyDeleteMany kids work just after school, from 4 PM - 10 or 11 PM. Some need to, others think they "need" to in order to earn money to pay for cars, computers, ipods, etc.