A parent wanted a geometry teacher to continually create flash cards for her kid to use throughout the year. Not that the teacher requires the rest of the students to make them - the parent just thinks that if the teacher would take the time to create them for her student, then he would do better.
Perhaps if the teacher would not only create the cards, but go to his house to quiz him on them, he would even do better.
But there is some good news. Request DENIED!
Yes, I have kids that need extra help in one area or another. But for a parent to ask the teacher to be lawfully required to make flash cards for her son is a little ... no, way too much.
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We had a diagnostician at our school who was convinced if we (the math teachers) would just make flash cards for our special ed students that they would be able to be successful in algebra I (even though many were testing out at a 5th grade math level). We just kept ignoring her. She finally went to work in another district.
BTW, been missing your blog and your stories!
I had a parent once who asked me if I could at the end of each lesson, spend the last 10-15 minutes of class going over everything we had covered that day with her son individually. I pointed out that with 28 other students in the class, to be fair I would have to spend 10-15 minutes with each of those students as well. She didn't see a problem with me spending 280 minutes reviewing a 50 minute lesson.
Shoot, Sean, they never do!
My favorite accommodation, I think, is to give them back their corrected test, let them look up the answers, and then resubmit it for a new grade. That's the one that grinds my gears. Fortunately it's been years since it's reared its pug-ugly head!
That child would benefit greatly from making their OWN flashcards. You, the teacher, already knows their math. You might try assigning it as homework for the darlings. It will do them a world of good!
How about the student who misses the math you teach in the morning (nearly every day) because their stepfather "doesn't like to get up early." The mom wants me to teach the math lesson one-on-one to their child later in the day.
wow! that is amazing.....it never ceases to amaze me what parents expect us to do....
i can't stand parents in general right now. It's not just special ed anymore either. I give the students time to ask questions, they don't. I give them time to start their homework and ask questions, they don't. Yet the parents think I should give up my personal time during lunch and after school to tutor one on one. Too much babying going on in parenting and education right now. The students have ZERO accountability.
Sarah said ... "The students have ZERO accountability."
No doubt, and why wouldn’t Children mirror the image of society? Alan Greenspan was in charge of the Federal Reserve for many years, yet he's on record as stating he isn't to blame (accountable) for the economy tubing. B. Frank & C. Dobb were instrumental in legislation that led to the collapse of the building industry, however, according to both of them they did nothing wrong. GW Bush doesn't accept any blame for his 8 years of failure.
These are some of the most powerful and influential people in our society. And you find Children being unaccountable strange, disturbing or out of step with the norm?
Priest--are you suggesting that kids are learning their denial of responsibility from their teacher's denial?
Hmmm ... I've re-read my post twice now and still cannot understand how you came to that conclusion. However, since you have broached the subject, are you of the opinion that many, or some, teachers are inadvertently or consciously modeling "denial"?
If your answer is "Yes" then what do you see as the primary motivating factors that lead at least some educators to use the tactic of denial? If your answer is "No" then how do you reconcile the typical faulty lunch room conversation with actions, attitudes, and conversation outside that sanctuary?
Here's one that I got this year. "Mr. 504" will be given food upon request.
Now I have to share my lunch with the little monkeys? It's crazy!
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