My 12 year old son goes to a well-rated suburban school in upostate NY.
Well he's having a little trouble in Social Studies. They're studying ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese history and there's a lot of memorization required. My son's mostly an A student but he's only pulling Bs in Social Studys so he (and my wife) have been working really hard on it. His teacher preceeds all tests with a quiz a week before. This last Thurs. he had a quiz and we've been asking him how he did and that we would like to go over it with him. Well, here its Tuesday night, the test is Thursday, and he hasn't gotten the quiz back. We ask our son and he tells us that his teacher told him not to ask about the quiz again or he wouldn't get it back until after the test.
That set my wife off. She calls the teacher and the teacher says that she has 3 children home and she isn't always able to get the quizes graded promptly. Also, that our son was the 5th child to ask her about the quiz and that she had had it with the questions.
Ain't that too bad for her!!!
My wife called the principal and he couldn't give a shait.
So guess what? I just left a message for the school district's Superintendent and I'm going to give her an earful.
Friggin' overpaid, underworked prima-donnas.
PS: my apologies to the good teachers out there.
Well he's having a little trouble in Social Studies. They're studying ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese history and there's a lot of memorization required. My son's mostly an A student but he's only pulling Bs in Social Studys so he (and my wife) have been working really hard on it. His teacher preceeds all tests with a quiz a week before. This last Thurs. he had a quiz and we've been asking him how he did and that we would like to go over it with him. Well, here its Tuesday night, the test is Thursday, and he hasn't gotten the quiz back. We ask our son and he tells us that his teacher told him not to ask about the quiz again or he wouldn't get it back until after the test.
That set my wife off. She calls the teacher and the teacher says that she has 3 children home and she isn't always able to get the quizes graded promptly. Also, that our son was the 5th child to ask her about the quiz and that she had had it with the questions.
Ain't that too bad for her!!!
My wife called the principal and he couldn't give a shait.
So guess what? I just left a message for the school district's Superintendent and I'm going to give her an earful.
Friggin' overpaid, underworked prima-donnas.
PS: my apologies to the good teachers out there.