I usually blame parents. Parents who can't be arsed to be involved in their children's schoolwork are usually more to blame than teachers. If a kid isn't getting his homework done it's not like a teacher can go to the home and do the parents job for them.
An example is our little school. It's public but it's a two room schoolhouse. That teacher has more students this year than she's ever had and she has her hands full enough without having to deal with uninvolved parents. We have a couple of kids who were "home schooled" for a couple of years who came back to the school a full grade level behind. That ridiculous star testing that we're forced to deal with will be affected by it and she's understandably stressed about it.
I've watched parents at this school blow off school work to the point where a science project for all grade levels was announced in a letter home that had to be signed and they still weren't prepared.
So yeah, I blame parents for sticking their heads in the sand, expecting the schools to do all the work, and then throwing fits when their kid is/should be held back.
An example is our little school. It's public but it's a two room schoolhouse. That teacher has more students this year than she's ever had and she has her hands full enough without having to deal with uninvolved parents. We have a couple of kids who were "home schooled" for a couple of years who came back to the school a full grade level behind. That ridiculous star testing that we're forced to deal with will be affected by it and she's understandably stressed about it.
I've watched parents at this school blow off school work to the point where a science project for all grade levels was announced in a letter home that had to be signed and they still weren't prepared.
So yeah, I blame parents for sticking their heads in the sand, expecting the schools to do all the work, and then throwing fits when their kid is/should be held back.
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