My kid’s teacher had a meeting with me to tell me my son does only exactly what he is asked to for his assignments and nothing more. Our children have so much to teach us.
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My teachers used to get mad at me for doing the paragraph limit on my essays and told me to write more because I did exactly what was told, later I found out I'm autistic. Still dumb though...
A friend's daughter just had a run-in with a teacher for doing this. Teacher said "you're supposed to be trying to impress me." Kid said "I'm here to learn, not to impress you." Maddening that schools are trying to enforce "your job is to do more than we ask." I just quit a job for that toxic shit.
I was raised to excel, always excel. It used to be the way to get ahead. Now it's abused so egregiously by corporations that "do only your job" is necessary for mental survival.
Okay, that way. I was always treated very well in my companies. Engineering pioneering companies. No idea for other sectors, but engineers love solving problems and don't make too much fuzz about anything. So my view point is not the world.
Once (6th grade, Mrs. Morgan - these things linger!) was given an A- instead of an A "because I didn't do any extra credit." Next quarter I blew off most of the regular assignments and focused on the extra credit and got my A.
Still pisses me off.
Yessssss I love this for him. I'd be that caretaker at home like "and do you have enough things available to keep busy and not disturb other people working? Good. Let's pick a book you can take along to enjoy during your extra time." 🤣🤣🤣
Your son is 200% right. It’s a fact that teachers that light fires to a child’s imagination,teachers who recognize the magic that each child brings, teachers who stand beside & behind children bc children in such an environment do their own freakin “extra work” bc they do it with joy and excitement
I was in the animation guild building, Burbank 12 years ago. A friend (nice guy) said to the outgoing Union pres that he often put in 15-20 hrs for Disney pro-bono. Pres told him that if two people did what he did, they were taking a full job away from someone else. This had never occurred to him!
I would do as little work as possible to end up with an A for the semester. I would rotate which classes I got B's in for the 6 week reports, so I'd have an A average for the grades that counted towards my gpa.
Wait…teachers were expecting us to do extra work??? Is this what they meant when they told my parents “Jake is a very bright child, if only he applied himself a little more…”? Now I feel proud of my lifetime 2.4GPA.
I make my rubrics show exactly where EVERY mark is for student's attainment of overall curriculum expectation. I make it quite detailed and extensive. If the student wants 100% and they fulfill all the rubric pieces, they get the 100%.
I've had lots of gifted students do only what they WANT to do and they get the exact marks for what they completed. Parent looks at the rubric and realize it's between them and their child, not them and me.
Sounds like what I try to practice at work: “but you didn’t volunteer for a stretch assignment”
“Nope”
“But they bring you great visibility”
“Do they bring me more pay?”
“No they do not”
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he wrote 4, which is technically correct, but I expected more frankly
Grade: A
Effort: C
Did I…not in fact apply the amount of effort required to be successful?
Grade: F (honors chem)
Effort: A
“Rob tried really hard but it didn’t work”
And they teach their kids the same way?
Omg.
Still pisses me off.
(I'm a teacher. If a student does this, I praise them.)
“Nope”
“But they bring you great visibility”
“Do they bring me more pay?”
“No they do not”