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

It is rude. She deserved the bashing. I’ll decide if my child does the work in these unprecedented times, not some teacher

Really? But the kids would normally be at school for 6 ish hours, why on earth would you possibly consider them not doing the work set?

I know a number of PP are saying it's the first week, lets be gentle with them. But my attitude towards DS(15) was do as you are asked to this week, as you then have 3 weeks off school. Lets find out what works and what doesn't. In fact we were sent an email on Friday from his tutor asking for feedback both from us and DS so when they roll out Phase 2 next term they know what went well and what didn't.

We have been very pleased with what his school have done and very pleased with DS as well as he has diligently treated it as a school week with no complaints. If he had received an email like that and he wasn't one of the 10 who had done the work he would have got short thrift from me. Lets face it what else can they be doing with their time, yes they can help with housework, cooking etc, but the majority of teenagers without the structure of schoolwork at the moment will be gaming or on social media.

Teachers really can't do anything right at the moment

Except on Mumsnet where they. Any do anything fucking wrong.

Assuming you are in the UK, that teacher is trying to carry on under extremely difficult circumstances. She may well be required to teach in school and endanger her own health and that of her loved ones in order to try and keep essential services going, and her Easter holidays will probably have been cancelled.

You should be profoundly grateful for anything she is able to offer in this situation. Maybe send her a thank you and an encouraging message?

Completely fair of teacher. They do not have time to wait for everyone to engage - they have to get through the curriculum. I have dcs of a similar age, and would totally back-up their teacher in this situation.

I think from what I hear online that some schools have excessive expectations of what parents, who are trying to work from home themselves can manage to implement with their children. Then you have schools who've put very vague suggestions up and parents are floundering there... and it's finding the middle ground which is probably going to take a bit of time to stabilise.

Our google classroom at the moment is a mixture of some lovely interaction between the kids' teacher and the children... and the high pressure parents who've completed every single suggested learning activity on the first weekend and have uploaded beautiful videos of them and are clamouring for more worksheets to do.

It’s not normal, @ChickLitLover - that’s the point.

My son with SEN had a message on the homework app that said "if you don't complete this quiz or let me know why you haven't , then I will be contacting your parents on Monday "

What if the teacher is also currently having to home school/look after their child whilst being expected to do full time wfh, using tools they’re not used to, with their partner unable to support/family unwell/various parents expecting work set specifically to their child/half an hour a day one on one chat to go over things? It’s impossible, give the teacher a break.

If my daughter got that message from her teacher, I'd be absolutely fucking fine with it. If she was one of the ones alluded to in the capital letters, I'd be having her phone off her until the work was done.

Yes, you’d be fine with it because your daughter has no other issues preventing her from getting on and doing it. I’d also be livid if my Y8 daughter didn’t get on and do the work her teachers have taken time to set her. My daughter has no excuses and I guess neither does yours. And of course there will be a bunch of those kids who are just being lazy teenagers but the important thing is that for others, it’s far more complex than that.

This teacher is wrong and power mad.
Everything will have to be repeated when society goes back. The MH burden alone is enough to discredit any learning done now, taught badly by non specialists.
People are being cruel to put their kids through a 6 hour day. And counterproductive.
At best it's just filling time.

Also as I've posted before, even at KS4, there's only a total of 75 mins pupil independent work (sitting quietly writing/maths/etc) in a regular school day.

OnTheMoors

So he (or you) could upload what he has done, why he couldn't do it or a message saying that he won't be doing it.
All preventing a phonecall/email from the teacher on Monday.

And I’m not teacher bashing, being one myself. In terms of who has a difficult home life or who will really struggle to keep up during this time, we’ll, we only know what we know. There’ll be thousands of kids under the watch radar for whom, this will be massively detrimental.

*well

I’ll decide if my child does the work in these unprecedented times, not some teacher.

Some teacher? Jeez. I get a bit fed up with the teachers on here banging on about how hard they have it, but if they have to put up with this kind of disrespect from a bloody parent then I don't blame them really.
Also I have a new found respect for teachers after just one week at home doing schoolwork with my lot 🤣

Everything will have to be repeated when society goes back.

Except the year 10s won't have time to catch up with these months they have lost (if they're not doing the work) before their exams. There is not enough time to repeat it.

Interestingly my DD's science teacher seems to be having the sameissue.

His message in response was (I am paraphrasing, as I can't find the message on the homework app now) "I see a number of you have not submitted homework - please can you let me know if you are sick or otherwise are having problems doing it"

Seems like a much nicer way of tacking the problem.

In fact, we had had a lot of problems uploading the homework to the homework portal (DD called me in, as she couldn't get it to work, and then neither could I). We messaged him to say this, and offered to email it if he would rather have it that way. In the end, the glitches were ironed out, and that was before his message, but it might be something as simple as that.
It is always nicer when somebody assumes the best and not the worst about you.

Bookoffacts I can tell you with absolute certainty that, unless the government cancels or pushes back the 2021 GCSE exams, we will not be repeating everything when we go back for the current year 10s. There will not be time. The government’s advisor this afternoon suggested that this is going to last 3-6 months. There will not be time to go over everything. There is no way, going back in September, that I could teach the content that I normally teach in year 11 and go over more than a term’s worth of year 10 work. It just will not happen.

Wannago

Much as I would like to believe that its all about connection issues, being ill or SEN.
From discussions with teachers at my school and others about 20% of pupils are actually doing the work.

Not all of this can be attributed to external factors.

You asked again what it is the teachers are doing all day. I think you need to reread the answers. Then consider that a fair proportion of them are also at school on rotation babysitting key worker children and when they’re not there, at home with young or school aged children of their own.

Also as I've posted before, even at KS4, there's only a total of 75 mins pupil independent work (sitting quietly writing/maths/etc) in a regular school day.
Where did you get that from?
Half an hour or more of almost all my ks4 lesson is independent and they have another 4 lessons in a day. I'm not unusual in having focused independent work either.

But the kids would normally be at school for 6 ish hours, why on earth would you possibly consider them not doing the work set?
Because it's easier not to bother and easier to give a free pass for a few months and then turn back to teachers later and ask them what they're going to do to ensure their child (who's been told working hard is optional) gets the grade.

Most parents work in partnership with teachers. Others have huge chips on their shoulders about teachers/school so think they're sending a message or winning an imaginary battle by deciding their child can opt out of work/homework/rules. By y11 most of them suddenly expect us to work miracles and we end up having to point out that we can do our part but we can't fix their child's attitude.

There is no way, going back in September, that I could teach the content that I normally teach in year 11 and go over more than a term’s worth of year 10 work. It just will not happen

There is no way in this unprecedented time that the GCSE curriculum will be covered in any depth by May 2021.

It is naive to think so.

You can't get the talk
You can't gauge understanding
You can't get questioning. Group work. Discussion.

The curriculum is massive anyway. It's already overloaded.

We are in lockdown. Children's lives have changed drastically. School routine and structure is gone. I am not trained in the techniques to support my child's learning. He works with a learning support assistant at school. I will do my best but I will not stand for crappy passive aggressive messages when they know his learning difficulties

I absolutely wouldn’t have worded it like that but I too have y10s who HAVE to get a certain amount done under their own steam because we simply won’t have time to do it - from scratch - next year. The loss of teaching time for y10 & to some extent y10 is going to be catastrophic. Ideally no new learning would happen whilst schools are partially closed but I reality that isn’t possible.