Wacky Hermit
2008-06-20 13:54:47
Lynn: “Please tell me you are not a teacher. All your students would start out with an “F” and by the grace of your good will might work their way up from there.”
Funny, that’s how it always worked in my classroom. Students fail by default unless they show me through their work that they deserve a higher grade. What do you think I ought to do with a student who never shows up for tests and hands in no assignments, give them a C because I’m so nice?
I too bemoan the personalization of truth. I’ve spent literally hours trying to explain to students that believing they’ve done their math problems correctly is not the same as doing them correctly, that there’s actually an answer that’s objectively, provably correct.
