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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
I've heard stories about teachers being repremanded for giving poor or failing marks to students who didn't know the material because "it's only going to hurt their self-esteem at this point".
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Don't let that rationalization fool you. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. Kids fail. That means parents and school board are where blame investigation begins. It's just simpler to not blame parents and to have a George Jr 'denial' atttitude in the school board.
morethanpretty has posted what I had posted here many years ago. The kid was in a charter school - where computers and young teachers were suppose to mean better education. And yet the kid did not even know in April that y=mx+b - what was taught in October. He did not even know what the x-intercept and y-intercept was. He had no idea how to do a slope on paper. When asked to finish the division of 1 divided by 4, he did long division. Where were his teachers? They were told to not make school administration look bad.
Top management was in denial. Mother had no education and therefore did not know how far behind her son was. The school provided report cards with graphs that did not even have a legend - were not comprehenible. And believe me, I tried to understand what they were claiming. Even the web site was useless. But they were high tech! This was the charter school solution that so many hype.
Once both boys transfered to public school, teachers began holding both boy after school to demand those boys understood the work. Grades eventually improved in the public school. Both kids were not so lost.
So what did that Charter School with computers, et al do? Made parents feel that a solution had been purchased - a magic box solution - rather than define the problem - top management. And who is the topmost manager? Parent. Same people who so often don't appear on Parent Teacher night. After showing her how far behind her son had become, she transfered both boys to public school where teachers actually gave a damn.