Teacher may lose job for refusing to let kids skip assignments

• Lemon wrote on 2012-06-03 01:51

  What he did, over the past 18 months, was what he had done for over three decades when a student didn’t submit an assignment, skipped a test or missed an exam: he pulled out his red marking pen and gave them a zero.
  
  It was a lesson in consequences, one contrary to the school’s no-zero policy, an official dictum Mr. Dorval willfully ignored.
  
  After repeated warnings from the principal to toe the line, the renegade was hauled before a school board hearing. Three days later, on May 18, he received a letter informing him he had been suspended indefinitely. He suffered the consequences.

  
  http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/02/edmonton-teacher-may-lose-job-for-refusing-to-let-kids-skip-assignments/
  
  :T_T:
• Kazuni wrote on 2012-06-03 01:53
  Why the hell is there a no-zero policy?
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2012-06-03 01:54
  Spoiled American education system. What was he supposed to give them? A 100? Maybe he could have gotten away if he gave them a 1.
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2012-06-03 02:01
  Must have been a High School for the 'special.'
• paladin wrote on 2012-06-03 02:05

  Quote from EndlessDreams;878872:

  Spoiled American education system. What was he supposed to give them? A 100? Maybe he could have gotten away if he gave them a 1.

  
  
  id more guess its due in part to no child left behind
  Districts must have good grades and scores to receive funding
• Kazuni wrote on 2012-06-03 02:06

  Quote from paladin;878883:

  id more guess its due in part to no child left behind
  Districts must have good grades and scores to receive funding

  
  
  Just sounds like patching up a broken arm with a bandaid. Oh you can't score well on tests? Lower the standards!
  
  This is why my school makes my freaking brain melt out my ears.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-06-03 02:10

  Quote from Kazuni;878884:

  Just sounds like patching up a broken arm with a bandaid. Oh you can't score well on tests? Lower the standards!
  
  This is why my school makes my freaking brain melt out my ears.

  
  
  pats Kazuni*
  there there
  you can rub the cat's back
• paladin wrote on 2012-06-03 02:11
  Lol kazuni
  you think?
  2 honor courses of chemistry taught by 2 different teachers
  One course donest know how to write formulas
  one course can correct use the names of the compounds and write out complete reactions
• Cynic wrote on 2012-06-03 02:14
  And people wonder why it's a common stereotype that Americans are stupid. When a kid doesn't do their work on purpose (and not due to a legit reason such as being sick), you don't teach them that it's OK to skip work, you teach them that if they want an decent education, they need to do the work.
  
  Dumbass kids.
• Jarvan IV wrote on 2012-06-03 02:20
  Don't worry, just give them all 49s and it'll be all fine. Because 49s don't inflate your grade at all.
• Sekwaf wrote on 2012-06-03 03:23
  Well, just as they're ignoring their work, he's ignoring a policy, so he had to face consequences of his own. HOWEVER (I know some people would just write me off for that first sentence if I didn't make this noticeable) I don't support the policy. It's most definitely part of the "No Child Left Behind" crap. I don't care what argument people can come up with, that policy is the single major reason education in America is flawed. Rather than make sure every kid is educated, schools just warp statistics and bend standards. For example, my school is not allowing any "outs" as of next year, the reason? Quite obviously so that everyone will take more electives, which are generally easy or a guaranteed high grade, hence boosting GPA. Also, standardized testing is now a joke. 98% of my grade passed the Biology EOC, sound impressive? Not really, the passing grade was a 37%, that still means roughly 20 (about 960 people in my grade) people couldn't get a little over a third of the questions correct. Oh, and it was multiple choice as well. We also had the highest scores in the city.
  
  I'm glad they don't reach too far into the IB Program of which I'm a part. Thank god for international standards (even if I'm in a sub-standard school, damn 4th poorest city in America).
• Lolicon wrote on 2012-06-03 03:46
  Wow that's really stupid.
• Kazuni wrote on 2012-06-03 04:04

  Quote from paladin;878890:

  Lol kazuni
  you think?
  2 honor courses of chemistry taught by 2 different teachers
  One course donest know how to write formulas
  one course can correct use the names of the compounds and write out complete reactions

  
  
  Oh please. Go look up the AIM french program with Wendy Maxwell and then you tell me it's worse than taking a science class with a teacher who doesn't know what they're doing (and yes, I have that too).
  
  I can't wait until university. I won't actually have to show up for class. I can read the textbook once and ace the exam, going to class is a waste of my time.
• Chillax wrote on 2012-06-03 06:23

  Quote from Kazuni;878989:

  I can't wait until university. I won't actually have to show up for class. I can read the textbook once and ace the exam, going to class is a waste of my time.

  
  
  

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• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-06-03 06:29

  Quote from Kazuni;878989:

  
  
  I can't wait until university. I won't actually have to show up for class. I can read the textbook once and ace the exam, going to class is a waste of my time.

  
  
  but being in class is one of the few opportunities to know your professor
  and TAs
  and knowing how they grade (saving time in bad, boring classes. the average student is expected to spend 1.5 hours for every hour in each course.)
  and maybe extra credit (it doesnt hurt to try)
  all that adds up to if they'll let you conduct research or help you in some way towards a career.