Teacher may lose job for refusing to let kids skip assignments

[Claudia]

lol kazuni, good luck with that.

@sekwaf; being in a poor city yet having an IB program, must be rough.

Otherwise, lol @ the school officials who suspended this guy. I wish teachers at my school could give a 0 to kids who don't bother to come to class and take tests and shit like that because all it teaches kids is that slacking off is okay.

[paladin]

You do know it's extremely rude to do that, right?

You do know that every highschool teacher and consoler has said
College donest give a dam
You come or you dont the professor wont give a single care

[Chockeh]

You do know that every highschool teacher and consoler has said
College donest give a dam
You come or you dont the professor wont give a single care

Some do.

;_________________________;

>Got called out once.

[Micho]

Oh hey, this is where I live.

Anyways, we talked about this in my class. My teacher gives out zeros also too, but there are some teachers (mostly in the junior high side), where your test mark will be your missing assignment marks, for example lets say you're in science and you did nothing, you didn't hand in assignments, you get a 90% on the unit test, all the assignments in that unit will get a 90% too. It's a bit messed up.

I don't feel like that they should have suspended him and then fired him for giving out 0s. But he is messing up a lot of kids by giving 0s, he teaches Physics 30 and that's one of the hardest class in high school. He's also not rounding up marks, let say a kid got 49% on a test he's not going to round it up to 50%, that's like common for teachers right? So the administrators did it for him, but he would go back later and change the mark AGAIN, so that's why he was fired. To be honest, he should have really just rounded the marks up, I love it when my teachers do that.

[Claudia]

Oh hey, this is where I live.

Anyways, we talked about this in my class. My teacher gives out zeros also too, but there are some teachers (mostly in the junior high side), where your test mark will be your missing assignment marks, for example lets say you're in science and you did nothing, you didn't hand in assignments, you get a 90% on the unit test, all the assignments in that unit will get a 90% too. It's a bit messed up.

Wow, that really is fucked up.

He's also not rounding up marks, let say a kid got 49% on a test he's not going to round it up to 50%, that's like common for teachers right?

Why would he round up, unless it was like a 49.9%? Not that it should matter, because that's an F either way. Never had a teacher that rounded grades. u___u

So the administrators did it for him, but he would go back later and change the mark AGAIN, so that's why he was fired.

Then the administration has some cause, but still, total bullshit all around.

[Micho]

Why would he round up, unless it was like a 49.9%? Not that it should matter, because that's an F either way. Never had a teacher that rounded grades. u___u

CAUSE CANADIANS ARE NICE LIKE THAT. But seriously, you guys never had a teacher round up marks for you? I was sitting at a 78% at the end of English last semester and my English teacher (who is the coolest guy ever) rounded it up to 80% for me. Also, if you have failing students in a class, the school doesn't get money, and the teacher himself doesn't get money either, so why not be nice and just round that 1% up? Students here work their asses off in classes and they get you know, 1% away from honours, or if they totally bombed a test 1% is the difference from failing and barely passing. Most, if not all teachers will round up and give that 1%.

Then the administration has some cause, but still, total bullshit all around.

Basically he wasn't listening to the higher ups. He was a "rogue teacher" as my teacher puts it. Too ballsy.

[Chockeh]

CAUSE CANADIANS ARE NICE LIKE THAT. But seriously, you guys never had a teacher round up marks for you? I was sitting at a 78% at the end of English last semester and my English teacher (who is the coolest guy ever) rounded it up to 80% for me. Also, if you have failing students in a class, the school doesn't get money, and the teacher himself doesn't get money either, so why not be nice and just round that 1% up? Students here work their asses off in classes and they get you know, 1% away from honours, or if they totally bombed a test 1% is the difference from failing and barely passing. Most, if not all teachers will round up and give that 1%.

We do that here. It's the teacher's decision. From what I encountered, most teacher's have a heart. I can't name a single teacher that would utterly hate kids like in the movies, dunno about you guys.

[Claudia]

No, I never had a teacher that rounded. I even got a 79.5 for a term once and the teacher wouldn't budge. Missed out on honor roll, but it is what it is. The closest thing that I ever got to rounding was having a teacher grade my final exam in front of me and ask me what the answer to a question I got wrong was (I didn't know I got it wrong), I verbally answered correctly and she gave me the points back.

I mean, it was one point out of 150 but it still made me feel weird. The whole business with grade inflation and pressure to inflate grades weirds me out, it's just not right. If you don't earn the grade, you don't get it. You would hope most teachers would be nice enough to help you out, but some teachers won't, and you have to accept that because they're in charge, not you.

As for the administration...there's a lot of pressure on them, teachers, and students to not fail. It's nuts.

[Micho]

We do that here. It's the teacher's decision. From what I encountered, most teacher's have a heart. I can't name a single teacher that would utterly hate kids like in the movies, dunno about you guys.

Yeah, see, like I think it's because teachers in Canada are allowed to play with their marks a little bit.

No, I never had a teacher that rounded. I even got a 79.5 for a term once and the teacher wouldn't budge. Missed out on honor roll, but it is what it is. The closest thing that I ever got to rounding was having a teacher grade my final exam in front of me and ask me what the answer to a question I got wrong was (I didn't know I got it wrong), I verbally answered correctly and she gave me the points back. I mean, it was one point out of 150 but it still made me feel weird. The whole business with grade inflation and pressure to inflate grades weirds me out, it's just not right. If you don't earn the grade, you don't get it.

Unless your teachers are completely heartless I just think that teachers in the US aren't allowed to touch their marks or they'll get in trouble. I mean, who wouldn't want to get Stacy into honours roll, and she can't just because she has that 1% missing.

[RebeccaBlack]

Can't even read it thoroughly because a no-zero policy is dumb in the first place. If it's impossible to get a 0, the scale of what's good/acceptable just adjusts accordingly and nothing is actually accomplished. I have no idea why they keep trying to pad their numbers like this. Have they just given up and want to feel good?