I have never met any teacher that was in it for the money and only worked from bell to bell. If your child emails his teacher with specific questions about the material, rather than just saying "I don't get it.", then his teacher nine times out of ten will do their best to get it across to him. I have never met a teacher that wouldn't help a student that was genuinely trying to understand the material and something is just not clicking. So if your child can somehow explain to his teacher exactly what it is that he does not understand with a particular assignment or concept in general, then I would like to hope that they would also drop whatever it is they were doing to help him with his struggles. But, having griped about all of that, I have never turned down a student that asked me for any help with the courses I have taught, much to the chagrin of my friends and my family. I only mention all of the above because it is very difficult for us to endure that our students are learning what we are required to teach them, as well as keep our eyes wide open for academic fraud/cheating at home. That would be an interesting subject to research for someone that has the time to do it.įor us teachers, there is a daily sense of dread of "What's next?" or "How do they expect us to do this or that while that other thing is going on?", "Which contradictory rule should we follow today?', ad nauseum. I don't know how the teachers did what they had to do during the Spanish Flu pandemic of the 1920's. There are always a lot of "behind the scenes" things going on in any "normal" school year, but the last 2 have been unprecedented in the "modern" school system. I know that may sound harsh, but we are usually either behind because of some new policy dictated from above, or we are trying to implement yet another new policy from their overseers. We are stretched entirely to thinly, and your child's education, as well as all of his classmates' education have become "collateral damage". As a high school math teacher for the last 10 years, I completely agree with you.
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