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Racky wrote on 2012-06-03 06:34
Where I come from, you don't do the work, you get a 0. You missed it? You bring a note excusing yourself for your absence, then you get to write it/hand it in later. Occasionally there are exempts (mainly for in-class only assignments, like a film/presentation)
That's just ridiculous. :shoe:
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Phunkie wrote on 2012-06-03 08:38
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.
Oh noooooooooooo.
You're one of those. :what:
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Chockeh wrote on 2012-06-03 09:01
Quote from Kazuni;878989:
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.
Isn't that what Kitae did and got fucked by a teacher that hated him for doing so? D:
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Spartaaaaa wrote on 2012-06-03 10:17
Sounds like a bad case of
Soviet Glass
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Taycat wrote on 2012-06-03 14:27
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.
You do know it's extremely rude to do that, right?
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Claudia wrote on 2012-06-03 14:46
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.
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paladin wrote on 2012-06-03 14:54
Quote from Mythical Detective Loki;879226:
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
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Chockeh wrote on 2012-06-03 16:17
Quote from paladin;879244:
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.
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Micho wrote on 2012-06-03 16:17
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.
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Claudia wrote on 2012-06-03 16:23
Quote from Micho;879268:
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.
Quote from Micho;879268:
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
Quote from Micho;879268:
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.
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Micho wrote on 2012-06-03 16:29
Quote from Claudia;879274:
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%.
Quote from Claudia;879274:
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.
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Chockeh wrote on 2012-06-03 16:36
Quote from Micho;879276:
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.
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Claudia wrote on 2012-06-03 16:37
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.
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Micho wrote on 2012-06-03 16:40
Quote from Chockeh;879281:
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.
Quote from Claudia;879284:
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.
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RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-06-03 16:41
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?