Announcing test marks to whole class - is this normal?

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Hi
My DD is in year 7 of a local comprehensive. I've been really surprised in the way that a number of teachers announce the results of tests for all students to the whole class. DD has some specific learning needs which means she has difficulties with some forms of test and when she first started she did spectacularly badly in some. She found having her marks read out (or having to announce them herself if it was a self-marked test such as a language vocab test) incredibly humiliating and I'm sure she was not the only one. Sometimes teachers mark their work, return it and then get them to announce their marks in front of the rest of the class so they can record them - why can't they record them as they mark?

Is this the norm? Is it considered good practice? I mentioned how embarrassed she was to one teacher related to one of the tests where she did badly and he said "oh yes, as soon as I got to her name I thought maybe I shouldn't read her mark out and felt a bit bad!" But she certainly won't be the only one, so why are they doing it at all? I don't know whether to say anything - it's now less of a problem for her as she is performing better, but that's not really the point. I teach in higher education and if I did something like this I would be out of a job pretty smartish.

I think this is terrible. Mine is at a grammar and they don't do this.
It's hard to know how to address though..

That sounds like laziness on the teachers part. I put my marks into the system once I've marked them. Don't use the kids to read them out etc.

I do sometimes show whole class marks up on the whiteboard if they want to know their scores for something and the teacher I job share with has their tests so I can't give them out. But I teach a subject with sets in so they all do very similarly in tests (if there was a big difference I would be mindful of it and do it more discreetly.)

Could you have a word with her head of year? A quick email around to her teachers should sort it out.

I don't think this is appropriate and it has never happened at any of the schools my children attended.
My dd who struggles with spelling would not want to read out her spelling test results and what possible benefit would there be for her to do so? She would be upset, embarrassed and worried about future tests.

They do this at DS’s grammar

Some of the teachers do this in DC's secondary. They are totally marks driven and I don't think it's acceptable but you can't ever tell teachers they are doing something wrong.

It's just very Govian isn't it? Back to the 195 0s. It sounds as if your daughter's coping okay and it's great that her marks have improved.

They do this at DD's GS.

Some teachers still use this method sadly. I can remember it happening when I was at school too.

Not good. Demoralising for low achieving pupils. Bad for confidence, moral etc... I’d send an email to HOY and cc Head. Not good practice in this day and age. Absolutely no need to do this - unless their aim is to make pupils feel bad about themselves.

Our school tells them highest /lowest mark but don't announce individual scores. The teacher sometimes strongly hints at who got the highest score.

Like raining they get told the top mark and the bottom so the children know where they are but they never get the children to tell the class their mark.

They also get told if most people got around X mark and only a few achieved the very high mark.

In primary they are allowed to not say it aloud, instead they say bananas and tell the teacher privately but this is when they mark their own maths tests.

Thanks - was wondering if I was being a snowflake about this. I went to school back when God was a boy and corporal punishment, low grade sexual harrassment and humiliation were the norm, but even then our teachers didn't do this. Some of her teachers just highlight those who've done well - either compared to the rest of the class, or have shown improvements on their earlier work, and I think that's fine. I think I will definitely look for a forum to raise this.