A mother´s rol: just about anything. A rant.
By marguicha
@marguicha (215403)
Chile
July 21, 2020 9:27pm CST
Claudia has been fighting with her children´s school all day. And she has called me 3 times (long phone calls) to pour her troubles on my feeble shoulders.
Sofía´s biology teacher teaches them about muscles and tendons in a chicken thigh (online). Neither Sofía nor Claudia understand at all. The teachers excuse for not showing it well is because that thigh was going to be part of a roast chicken she had for lunch. OMG!
Claudia reads online and teaches Sofía. They do the homework together and they hardly pass.
So Claudia deciedes to do the next homework herself. She studies. It is a language homework and has to be written. It is not multiple choice. Claudia is a lawyer and a judge. She send Sofía´s work (9 years old) and in les than a minute the grade comes back. She has hardly passed.
I am pissed because of the chicken thigh (what was the teacher doing in the time that she was supposed to be teaching?) and Claudia says that it is impossible to read, much less to grade something in such a short time.
This, clearly friends, is a rant
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
Claudia does not much care if Sofía has to do the grade again, except for her friends. With Vicente is different because he is in 11th grade.
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
@JudyEv I told Claudia to buy books with the contents of the grade, no matter what the school is asking in the minute. Vicente is intelligent and he can study alone.
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@JudyEv (325755)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Jul 20
@marguicha It would be more important for Vincente not to fall behind too much but I guess maybe his whole class is in much the same boat.
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
22 Jul 20
This is actually a serious matter. and te teacher is simply crazy
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
Absolutely. Yet in this moment it is not possible to talk with the principal.
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
22 Jul 20
@marguicha why? Are you paying for the classes?
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
@amitkokiladitya This is a private school. But all classes are now online. And the teachers don´t know how to impart them and nobody cares.
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@sweetashoney (3594)
• United States
22 Jul 20
Ok, I have to ask, did Claudia write the homework like a nine year old would? I was watching a video not long ago were a child had math problems to do and got all the answers right, his uncle was watching him at the time and checked his homework. Well when the boy got home the next day and showed his uncle his grade he was mad. The teacher gave him an F just because he didn't show his work on how he got the answers. This was multiplying like 5x6, 7x4, etc. The man raised all kinds of sand with the teacher, he said she told him his low grade was because he didn't follow her instructions! I say that's another crazy teacher.
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
Claudia was mad because there was no way any human being could read and much less grade a paper in less that a minute. As she told me what happened, she could have sent anything and the answer would have been the same at the same time.
@sweetashoney (3594)
• United States
23 Jul 20
@marguicha Yea, I would be mad to then. Can she speak to someone that's over the school about it?
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
Unfortunately, now it is imposible to get to the principal or to any higher authority.
@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
@LadyDuck Many things will have to change after the COVID is over.
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
22 Jul 20
It makes me wonder what kind of homework was given by the teacher. Are you sure that teacher is not a grandchild of Hitler?
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
Claudia will talk with the homeroom teacher tomorrow. But it seems there´s not much she can do.
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
22 Jul 20
@marguicha if the mother is having a hard time with the homework then much more with the student. There is something wrong with the method or with the teacher.
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
30 Oct 20
@aureliah She shuld be given notice at school.
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
There are many by products of all this mess.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
22 Jul 20
Teachers here are being prepared how to teach online when classes open, at least in my children's school. I think it's a new skill teachers need to learn and an entirely different program they are developing.
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@marguicha (215403)
• Chile
22 Jul 20
I am afraid that these teachers in Sofía´s school are lazy.
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@LindaOHio (156056)
• United States
23 Jul 20
There is so much that the children miss out on with online learning. I hope it ends soon.
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