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

From a personal perspective I qualified as a teacher od citizenship in 2009, and the subject dropped from the curriculum line a stone.

I think a possible answer is to restart the current teaching year, with the same cohorts from scratch in September and not to enrol rising fives. Parents will scream, but there is plenty of evidence from countries like Finland with better educational results than the UK to suggest that the end result is not much different. And I'd use this enforced break to reconsider the pattern of terms which was based on an agrarian society that vanished 100 years ago. If all schools could decide when their breaks were as long as they completed 190 school days per year then parents and teachers would not be paying the daft premium to have a break at set times.

I assume naming the children would not really be any different than when you hand out books in the classroom when it would be evident which children had handed in their homework and which ones hadn't.

Book I totally agree.

My dd is in year 7 at my school. I am encouraging her obviously but I have been so busy with my own work that if she hadn't done one subject and I saw that reply. I would not be happy.

I honestly think their would be an email sent around from the head warning everyone to be mindful.

It didn't have to be in caps.

Maybe she got fed up with telling parents she can't go over it. She can't be available all the time.

I assume naming the children would not really be any different than when you hand out books in the classroom when it would be evident which children had handed in their homework and which ones hadn't.

We got told off for giving test scores out loud. Slightly similar.

I would predict:
No coursework for 2021 entries.
Only paper one rather than two or three papers for all exams. Or only core content.

Reduced curriculum content for 2022 cohort.
Back to usual for 2023? However poss not as current Year 8 affected too.

I happen to have some contacts in the private sector (who closed their schools two weeks earlier than state schools UK btw).
The schools are suffering financially as no fees, (Which I find strange as you'd think they were in contract) but they are NOT enforcing school work. They are promoting good MH, ie bake a cake etc.

I’ve been teaching long enough, thanks. And you’ll se that I’ve said several times “if the exams go ahead”. I’m not certain that they will. In terms of reducing the content, that’s not terrible practical. They could cancel a paper, for example. But how would they make sure that kids in schools that teach paper 3 first get a fair grade compared to schools that hadn’t taught it yet?

Or only core content.

Hm. That’s tricky because schools will have taught content in different orders, so which bits to drop?

They’ll definitely need to do something but I don’t think there’s an easy fix.

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

Obviously not but if kids, especially secondary age are not doing school work for part of the day, why on earth not? Why would you want them to not do work? Do you want your children to pass their exams? 🤷🏻‍♀️

She is probably stressed to hell, deviating from her usual lesson plans and then half the class not even bothering their backsides to attempt the lesson.

I teach English - there is no coursework to drop. I agree they might shorten the curriculum but until I’m told otherwise how can
I curtail reading/ learning a text when .ikniw we will not have time to cover it next year. I can only carry on as best I can - I assure you I’m not doing it for me. I also not asking my pupils to do anything that will damage their health. I’m asking them to read/ watch a play with guidance so they at least have some familiarity with it when I doubtless have to reteach it.

Not all independent schools closed earlier. My son’s closed the same day my state school did - and I assure you they have put together a very comprehensive set of online teaching AND are expecting the pupils to do it.

Bookoffacts
You are a puppet of the govt

What a dickish thing to say

and of course they will change the curriculum and coursework requirements for 2021 and possibly 2022 as well.

Do you havce any links to evidence this claim?

Could they not offer more questions of choice to account for such knowledge gaps? I know it would be a larger task to write more questions... but at least the children would have a fighting chance.

bubblebu Really ? You are a grown adult so why would you be scared to contact a teacher ?

I think the problem with all the online work being set, is that the school is actually closed and you don't let them know about illness etc. So the school don't know if the child or their family are ill with CV. Last week there was a deluge of work for all children, but a proportion of them will be unwell or have parents who are unwell. I have found the emails being sent from school, including those congratulating all the well children on their hard work, to be highly insensitive. Some people think coronavirus is happening somewhere else to other people and aren't grasping the reality that some families have contracted it - especially those working in the NHS. Hundreds of staff are off work with coronavirus at the local hospital - that will affect their children too.

maybe because of the reaction on here....

Actually, more choice of question would probably be the easiest way to adjust the exams in my subject. If there are going to be changes that’s the most likely I think. There’s no coursework to cancel and everyone teaches things in a different order so cancelling a paper would be impossible to do fairly.

Oneliner totally agree, but all of little precious brats mothers will never admit that

My DS school usually has a strict policy but they actually sent a letter out stating that we don’t pressure the kids because it’s a stressful time. I was really surprised by this. All of the teachers have pretty much but fun jokey comments on. My son hates school and has asd but is following his Timetable to the letter and only doing work according to that, I’m just happy he’s doing something. He’s recieved achievement points already. There’s no need for teachers to get shitty about it, no one wanted to be in this situation.

TBH I haven't bothered my arse with home schooling yet - plan on starting tomorrow. If it were my teacher, I'd probably think, 'Fair enough'. she might have her own kids at home, having to do this and make sure that they are doing their school work as well....

Hadenoughofitall441

There’s no need for teachers to get shitty about it

there is also no need for parents to get shitty about it either. for the same reason.

Schools and teachers are trying to find a balance and some are inevitably going to get it wrong.

DS and DD attend a school where the original instruction from the Deputy Head (HT is sick) was that all children had to be on devices 9-3, in uniform, every day.

That was quickly revised to children should share devices equally and should do school work, in uniform, for a minimum of 3 hours a day each.

Each day it was tweaked and revised until we got a very honest email that said “I’m making this up as I go along so I’m really sorry if I get it wrong. I’m trying to do my best for teachers and pupils. Please keep letting me know how and why things are not working and I’ll keep tweaking. I know everyone is doing their best in this madness.”

They’re doing their best, and acknowledging that everyone is doing the same and trying has improved parent-teacher relations massively in just a few days.

Getting sharp and shouty with people doesn’t do anything except get their backs up.

Tibola from your update it sounds to me as though you should have spent your time writing an email to the head of the Trust partnership. If they are not being proactive about their expectations re what the school is providing then you should be putting a rocket up their arses , not having a go at a teacher who is at least trying to maintain some work expectations. In normal circumstances if I was a Y10 teacher and two thirds of my class had failed to complete their work I would be a) giving them a face to face verbal bollocking /detention and b) contacting their parents . I wonder if this teacher is giving her students a one off chance to realise that virtual schooling is not optional. There is very little else she can do.

I think the email would be reasonable if the school were closed due to a water leak or lack of heating. Pupils should be getting on with work at home in those situations, and those who do as they told should be praised. But these are not normal times. The emails about work and praising those who complete the work are really insensitive to those people and their families who are suffering with coronavirus and can't do the work and very much wish their only problem was getting on with schoolwork.

At that age, they're old enough to take some responsibility for their own education, and it sounds like this teacher is seeing that many are failing to do that, so far. They're clearly communicating that it hasn't gone unnoticed. Maybe it will put a little "fear" into some of them and encourage them to not look at these weeks out of the classroom as free-play time.

Different teachers have different attitudes, some of which you might think "rude". I'd imagine the students are used to it. I know many of my own teachers wouldn't have hesitated to use similar tactics.