Shitty message from teacher on Google Classroom.

[Tibola]

Congratulating the 10 kids who completed the assignment and giving their names. And then in block caps:

FOR ALL THOSE WHO DID NOT COMPLETE THIS I WILL NOT BE GOING BACK OVER THIS IN CLASS 👍

Rude much?!! And no, their school isn’t open for key workers before anyone jumps on me and says how busy she must be

@Bulb1976
As a teacher with many years of experience I can tell you that students fall broadly into two categories...

After many years of teaching this is the conclusion you have come to? 😂 Please tell me you've retired from active teaching.

It is early days for online learning and it is important the teachers get across the message to students that they need to take responsibility and complete this work or they will be at a disadvantage later. It is also clear if students are struggling, for whatever reason, they have a way to contact the teacher to discuss a way forward.

It is important parents realise their children need to complete this work at home, and if they cant they should speak to the teacher for support.

The message needs to be robust and clear. If it is not clear it will result in lots of children, and parents, returning to school in August(Scotland)/September complaining they don't know X or Y and it is because they never engaged with the learning at home and never informed the school of their issues. They need to make it clear so there are no excuses or pleading ignorance that they didn't know.

When only 12 out of 50 of ds's school completed a Physics assignment last week I don't think it was rude at all.

Seems fair to me

On the bright side - there won't be KS2 SATs this year.

How many of you who thought it was a reasonable message would be ok with your manager sending you a similar message in relation to some work you were unable to complete last week?

@Tibola

What are they so busy with? Are you serious?

GCSE and A level exams have been cancelled. Teachers have to go through two years of each pupil's work and decide a pupil's grade by themselves.

Some of those parents will be key workers scrambling to keep people alive or the essential elements of the country running. With IT issues, even those equipped to work key roles from home will be working long hours, doing work which simply must get done, and they will be under enormous mental pressure.

She obviously can't see beyond the end of her own face and probably assumes that all children have a SAHM, parent with an optional fun-hobby-job or a job which is furloughed on pay.

My message back to her would include a similar message in a similar format.

The teacher should be thankful for any work the children do, any work done is a bonus and not a must.
The work being done isn’t for the benefit of the teacher. We don’t set work because we want the pleasure of marking it. This is a child in the middle of a GCSE course. If those exams go ahead as normal next year teachers in disadvantaged state schools will not have done their year 10 students any favours if they didn’t expect them to do any work in this time when kids in private schools are getting a full timetable of videoconference lessons and 1-2-1 Skype tuition.
We know that circumstances for some kids make this harder. Our IT team are refurbishing every laptop that we have in the school and getting them ready to be delivered to the homes of students without computer access. We are sending out WiFi dongles and doing everything we can to try and get those students some access to online learning. We can’t just shrug our shoulders and say “well it’s hard for some kids so let’s not make a fuss if they can’t do any work” because we’d be letting them down massively. In just over a year their exams are probably going to happen, whether they are ready or not.

Then they have to plan how to do each lesson online and send work out for each class.

Why don't you tell us how you would do that?

From Nasuwt
Schools should also make it clear to parents that they should not be monitoring or commenting on the quality of the provision made.

Good one!🤣

She obviously can't see beyond the end of her own face and probably assumes that all children have a SAHM, parent

Why would she assume this? The children are in year 10.

How many of you who thought it was a reasonable message would be ok with your manager sending you a similar message in relation to some work you were unable to complete last week?

I'm not a lazy teenager though

Well get your little darling do the work then you won't get a shitty message!

@PicsInRed yes, she is really showing herself up there.

Kids who don’t do the work are going to be behind when school returns. You can’t expect the class to be held back in their learning for those who didn’t bother. The work isn’t optional - they need to do it and parents need to support that.

I don’t it’s unreasonable! My students have to follow a school timetable from home and have lessons via video link. We expect the work to be completed and won’t have time to teach it again in school.
I can honestly say that teaching from home is harder in many ways than just being in a classroom. I’m still planning, teaching and marking plus all the pastoral elements of my role including talking to students, parents and having meetings.

@Bubblebu I think you need to grow up and start being a little less sensitive at a time of national stress and a little more supportive of your own children’s education

Why didn’t you ask the teacher of your DS if you wanted to know whether that teacher would be running online sessions? You are lucky you received a reply at all 🙄

How many of you who thought it was a reasonable message would be ok with your manager sending you a similar message in relation to some work you were unable to complete last week?

Ha! I legitimately was included on a very similar mass-mail message from my deputy head a few weeks back. Named the people who had done it, told the rest off in very strong terms. No caps or emojis though.

Surely many wfh parents are using company devices

Surely?! I guess the ones that regularly work from home would have this set up, but there are a shed load of us that are working from home for the very first time and having to use personal equipment to do this...

@chomalungma yes I do understand why some of the pupils may have not done the work. However there are several that will not do it - two boys even said in class that they intended to do no work whatsoever.

I have emailed all the pupils - two separate messages. Both start with me hoping all is well and that I understand if there are difficulties. One to say well done and one to say, nicely, get a move on. Both messages ask for contact if problems.

I also know the SEND/PP/Computer Access and various other bits of info about the kids I teach.

The majority of teachers care about their pupils and understand.

have emailed all the pupils - two separate messages. Both start with me hoping all is well and that I understand if there are difficulties. One to say well done and one to say, nicely, get a move on. Both messages ask for contact if problems

That's lovely - and very empathatic. That is the kind of message the teacher in the OP could have put in their message,

I know that @FlashesOfRage I'm not stupid, so no need for the sarcasm.

How would a teacher know if a student had completed the assignment unless there was some way for the student to mark it as complete? Which there isn't when my son logs in to his.

He can read the instructions but that's it. The actual work is done in his subject books.

The reason I asked is because I wondered whether I was missing something and my son might be doing something wrong.

God some people really do need to wind their necks in

Oh Christ, read my other messages. DS did the work. He did the work. His name was on the list of kids who did the work. He did the work.

Their school does NOT have live video teaching. Teachers are not planning and delivering a full days lesson online. I’m looking at DSs google classroom right now.

English assignment - read an extract and answer two questions.

Maths - link to hegerty. Go to hegerty and it’s the same weekly homework they always get

Geography - project on Asia. Actually quite in depth. Hand in by Easter

That’s it. There is no video lessons, teams, checking in emails or work to mark. So again, I would ask what their teachers are doing all day which makes them so much busier and stressed than everyone else?

FWIW, I am a key worker. My youngest are still going to primary and they have been bloody fantastic, over and above what they needed to do.

DSs school...flatly refuses to take any key worker kid above year 7. Sent out NSPCC advice saying kids over 12 are fine at home. Sent the 3 key worker kids to another school in the trust as no point staying open for 3 kids.

Teachers you don’t have to explain what you are doing in your job.

OP is a GF who is looking to stir up trouble.

Incidentally schools won’t be open until September so you can moan/ rant away till your hearts content

Yes pretty rude.
Teacher on some power trip. Just ignore