Carnival of Education
I'm really liking this week's Carnival of education, especially the From the Classroom section. I can really sympathize with the Montessori teacher since I've been accused of altering one of my student's grades this week.
I had a parent meeting Friday called by the principal because the student involved wanted to be removed from my class. This particular student has been an A/B student until the current grading quarter. His grade has now slipped to an F. He claims to have turned in everything that he recieved a zero in (even though I know that he was out of class for one of the assignments because I had to send him to the asst. principals office at the beginning of the class period for his behavior.) He now claims he turned in that assignment. He knows because he got the answers from another student. The parents' comment was "See, he found a way to do his work."
This particular child also only answered 4 of 24 questions on the last test, earning him a grand total of 19/100 points. I, not wanting to see him unable to pull up his grade for the rest of the year, gave him a 60. (I did the same for every student under 60 on this test, all 3 of them.) I handed the test paper to his parents to see his absolute lack of effort. But it all sounds suspicious to them. But they're not siding with their son. They understand how hard teachers work, but there are too many inconsistencies.
I sat there and took as much as I could. Tried to be polite and eventually quit talking, because my momma said "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." And the principal sat there and listened to the entire conversation and said nothing at all. So now this student will think he has his parents' permission to do nothing for me whatsoever.
Thank goodness I have a teaching assistant in that particular class period who can attest to the new depths that his behavior has reached in the past month and half. And looking at his latest test from Friday, it seems to be another F (5/25 blank).
So what should I do?
I had a parent meeting Friday called by the principal because the student involved wanted to be removed from my class. This particular student has been an A/B student until the current grading quarter. His grade has now slipped to an F. He claims to have turned in everything that he recieved a zero in (even though I know that he was out of class for one of the assignments because I had to send him to the asst. principals office at the beginning of the class period for his behavior.) He now claims he turned in that assignment. He knows because he got the answers from another student. The parents' comment was "See, he found a way to do his work."
This particular child also only answered 4 of 24 questions on the last test, earning him a grand total of 19/100 points. I, not wanting to see him unable to pull up his grade for the rest of the year, gave him a 60. (I did the same for every student under 60 on this test, all 3 of them.) I handed the test paper to his parents to see his absolute lack of effort. But it all sounds suspicious to them. But they're not siding with their son. They understand how hard teachers work, but there are too many inconsistencies.
I sat there and took as much as I could. Tried to be polite and eventually quit talking, because my momma said "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." And the principal sat there and listened to the entire conversation and said nothing at all. So now this student will think he has his parents' permission to do nothing for me whatsoever.
Thank goodness I have a teaching assistant in that particular class period who can attest to the new depths that his behavior has reached in the past month and half. And looking at his latest test from Friday, it seems to be another F (5/25 blank).
So what should I do?
posted by Jessica at 2:54 PM
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