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

Cant see how its rude in anyway

At our place subject teachers are collating a list of who doesn’t submit work and then passing to form teacher who will chase the work via the parents.

I think this is a better system as parents are not being hounded by a range of teachers but they are still being kept informed on a weekly basis.

Having said that, if the teacher is preparing Year10 student for GCSEs in a year’s time they are probably stressing that the pupils are going to miss so much class time and all work set is crucial.

Last week was the first week of virtual teaching so I can imagine there are going to be lots of teething problems even going up to Easter.

This is unprecedented times so it is worthwhile everyone cutting each other a bit of slack.

Bubblebu
The teachers are just getting through the day. Just. Can you not possibly imagine they’ve had the same request from a bunch of other parents and lots of other comments and fielding all sorts of crap. Each parent acts as though their child is the only child in the class. If you read the teacher threads, you will gain more of a perspective as to why you were blasted.

@Bubblebu

Yes I think you are being unreasonable.

You can't ask the teacher to comment on her colleagues. It wouldn't be reasonable if someone did this to you.

You need to contact your other child's teacher directly.

@Soontobe60
Have you thought that the tèacher may also be WFH with very young children?

Yet, on this thread, it is the children who are supposed to be mature in these circumstances

This is unprecedented times so it is worthwhile everyone cutting each other a bit of slack

Exactly...

ok understood lamp.

I have asked my daughters teacher to take my daughter off the zoom link as her being able to do it but not my son will just cause big fights in my home.

"To say well done to the kids who did the work."

So why not say "well done to those who completed"?

There was nothing wrong with what the teacher wrote. You looking for argument/ teacher bashing thread OP?

Don’t teach your children to be precious snowflakes, you will encouraging poor behaviour that could last a lifetime.

Having seen the replies I am now scared to be in contact by email with either of my children's teachers.

For other science teachers on this thread, we are doing AQA Chemistry of the atmosphere, and Ecology units for all students at home (not sure what we will do for physics) as these are the ones we think will be easiest for students to do more independently, and can be done without lab work.

Sansa that's what we have done.

Paper 2 Physics is slightly more difficult as there are no real straight forward topics.

I am trying P7 Radioactivity with my top set separates at the moment. History of the atom was ok to do.

Complete opposite from my school the head master we’re putting work up but don’t feel you have to repeat it but they might get board but my sons school is particularly lovely. That’s not nice At all

bubblebu I’m surprised the teacher was allowed to do this, my husband’s school won’t allow any video teaching or 2 way video communication, it’s a safeguarding nightmare. If they see something in the background on the camera etc etc he’d have to report it. The head was very clear this wasn’t something he wanted any staff to be doing.

@Bubblebu

That's incredibly unfair to your daughter. The zoom class is for her education, not a treat.

Is your son the golden child?

Our HeadTeacher

We will be deviating from the normal timetable after Easter. More information will follow about this next week but we will be providing key work for students to complete which is realistic in its expectation and allows students to make progress

. W e are also looking at how we can assess the work students are completing in a meaningful way

He talks about the importance of mental wellbeing - for staff and pupils and being realistic about what can be achieved.

@Bubblebu

Yes I think you are being unreasonable.

You can't ask the teacher to comment on her colleagues. It wouldn't be reasonable if someone did this to you.

You need to contact your other child's teacher directly.

It's against the union guidelines.

You should watch the video skitty on Facebook. It's why I would never do it.

Wishihadanalgorithm
That's a good system.

I'm waiting for next year when the students who were too lazy to do the work (note, not those who couldn't before people decide to tell me I can't do my job, don't know students, schools don't help the vulnerable and so on) start panicking and the requests for extra lunch and after school sessions kick in, what are you doing to catch my child up even though my child chose not to complete the preparation work set during lockdown and so on. It's inevitable given the y11 'my child has messed around/been lazy/not bothered for 4 years and I've backed my child over teachers, but now I want you to ensure they get the grade we want' panic happens every year anyway.

She sounds like a twat (ex teacher here).

How does she know that the children aren’t ill themselves? Or perhaps caring for younger siblings so a parent can work from home?

I see nothing wrong with it. In year 10 I would expect the child to get on with work alone.

Also, as a teacher, if any student has emailed me having issues with the online work, I have tried my very best to come up with a work around for them. However, there are some students where I've just had no contact and no work done.

We are going to have to start chasing up students after Easter, and yes, I know it's not ideal given the circumstances but equally at the moment I have about 25% of each class (more in bottom sets) not doing anything. This will leave those students massively disadvantaged when we go back to school if this carries on. I think teachers are mostly doing this because they care!

Thats not being rude OP.

@diddl

No idea what point you are trying to make. The OP used the word "completed" but she wrote in reported speech, not verbatim. I have no clue as to what verb the teacher used.

Have you thought that the tèacher may also be WFH with very young children?

Yet, on this thread, it is the children who are supposed to be mature in these circumstances

Yes. The children who are inY10 and thus 14/15 should be mature enough to do the work. They aren't, presumably, having to look after small children and do the work at the same time.

DD is Y9 and has just got on with what she needs to do.

Harrysmum Is your son in year 10 mid-way through GCSEs like the OP’s child? If he is then the lovely HT may not be doing him a favour by saying “don’t worry about school work”. If he has to sit GCSEs next May-June his teachers may not have enough time to teach him the whole syllabus.