Shitty message from teacher on Google Classroom.

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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

Year 10, I would say fair enough I agree with the sentiment of the message.

If a year 10 was struggling with the work I would expect them to make the effort to get in touch with the teacher.

Parents who are working at home full time struggle to get a full days work out of kids, believe it or not. Plus not all households have multiple laptops/ iPads to allow multiple children to be online doing school work all day. I would say that’s a really shitty comment from a teacher who maybe doesn’t comprehend the reality of what a lot of families are going through.

Year 10? Sounds fine to me,assuming that they had already been told that they could contact the teacher if they needed help,and knew how to do that.

I think you are being a bit precious to be honest.

Sounds fair to me given the age group. Should all be capable of getting in touch with the teacher before the deadline if they had issues.

No it’s rude, even if it’s the truth. As a teacher I’d never write something like that. We are very well aware that not all children will be able to follow what we are setting. Some families have 3 or 4 young children at home and are also trying desperately to work and keep businesses afloat and food on the table. They cannot possibly be completely on top of all their kids’ lessons every day.

If your child is an older teen and self directing then fair enough but if this is a primary school teacher then I think she is being totally unreasonable. I’m a teacher myself with 3 children at home and I’m not able to keep up with everything being sent home.

Sounds fine for year 10.

If your DD really did the work, what's your problem?

After all, if she does end up (and she inevitably will) teaching the class all the stuff they haven't done, whether it's due to lack of internet access or a parent prepared to hover over them and force them to do something which is pretty much what she's been doing all year with two thirds of the class by the sounds of it, it'll be taking up valuable time in which your DD could be learning other things she needs.

How can the teacher be expected to cover the entire curriculum when schools return? Students are expected to continue working/learning at home.
Also, just because your school isn't open doesn't mean the teachers aren't being deployed to other schools that are open. Friend teacher is having to work 10hr days several days a week at a different school whilst also providing work for their own students.

As a teacher it's awful. She is judging home lives and nit taking any extenuating circumstances into account.

They would hate it if their head judged like that. In fact its against union guidelines.

It's disgusting.

Now if she said it in class due to a lack of effort. I am with them.

Don't see anything wrong with this. Take some responsibility for your child

I’m struggling to see what the problem is if your child completed the work.

Or are you doing that uniquely MN thing and “fuming” on someone else’s behalf?

I think the issues some children/families face are lost on some people.

I think for y10 it's fair as they should be able to do the work independently.

Formatting on some of these platforms doesn't have bold or underline so caps is a useful way to make things stand out.

It's fairly reasonable to point out that they're not going to be reteaching material in class if students haven't bothered to do the work set.

If kids could all learn by just logging on to a PC and autonomously getting on with it what the hell are we wasting money on school buildings for?
Please tell me this isn't a serious question.
GCSE students should be more than capable of going through basic new material which can be recapped and reviewed later.
Just thinking about my subject, I may set reading a chapter of the set text, some activities linked to character and plot. I wouldn't reteach that lesson, but they'd need that material to have been prepped for the higher level content on themes that I'd have saved for when we got back to school.

The teacher isn't expecting much for GCSE students to do the work set. Making no attempt is laziness (and staff are already aware who has paper copies sent home so may not have it in).

Why should those who've bothered to do the required prep have to sit through it all again to make up for those who want their GCSE grade for little to no work?

What's wrong with that ? Not rude in the slightest?

Perhaps some of the class don’t have access to a PC, are looking after younger siblings so a parent can work from home.

Is the teacher available on the phone to discuss difficulties with the work, is she contacting pupils daily offering assistance?

Year 10??

Not rude at all.

If they were tiny children who needed over-stretched parents to help them when they're trying to work from home themselves, I say YANBU.

But since these kids are 14 to 15 years old, they need telling firmly that they need to knuckle down.

Very rude.

Oh ok. If your child is Y10 then they really have no excuse as they’re not reliant on their parents to direct their learning.

Also, I know that at our school, those teaching Y12 and Y10 are very worried about ensuring the ALevel and GCSE syllabuses are being taught to as full a timetable as possible.

Is said teacher panicking, as we all are.
Now is the time to not take things too personally.
It’s not that we will get through this, but how we get through this.

Year 10 - nope. Still not teaching new stuff. Try teaching new Chemistry content to bottom sets!

Like I said, what if the kids are sick? They are judging home circumstances and naming and shaming unfairly.

I think fair enough. She spent time planning/teaching/marking. And she is trying to cram a two year course into 1 and 1/2 years. She doesn't have time to cover it all again. Parents should be home schooling and by y10 can be mostly done independently. She's speaking to the kids not the parents. They are doing GCSEs and are already disadvantaged.

Shitty?

This is probably a statement and establishment of normality. In class, teachers have to deal with those who are not paying attention and not learning. With online learning there'll be even more so. No doubt she is having to bluntly tell some that school is still on, education is still on, she is still there teaching and the responsibility to listen and learn is still on. Sorry if you found it a bit blunt. That's needed sometimes.

Y10 no issue with that. They are going to be struggling to get the curriculum covered in time for GCSEs. They should also be independent enough to message the teacher when they got set the work if they had an issue with completing/understanding it.

And the teachers are busy even if they are not in school. DS's school (and he is in Y10 so know how much he needs to do) were doing a full timetable of work every day and were marking work pupils submitted. They were also online to help with queries etc.