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You don't have to be a prodigy to learn your addition and subtraction facts. We're not talking about partial differential equations here, we're talking about the most basic arithmetic.
Yeah, and maybe it doesn't catch on with the kid as fast as the other children. Does it deserve being insulted by the teacher?
The principle calls the teacher in and says "We've got a parent here whose little angel got ruffled feathers, so tone it down a little before it goes viral on youtube and somebody waves a 20-million dollar lawsuit at us."
Something that seldom surfaces in the conversations of teachers is the fact of their being very similar to other workers when it comes to "getting the gravy jobs." In the educational field, the "gravy" is those kids whose parents have done most of the hard work relative to the kid's study habits, not to mention the tutoring that goes on in the lives of those kids living in the parents overall plan for success.
The real grueling work is found in the attempts to reach those kids who are indeed failing in most of the subjects being taught. It is these kids that make the teacher tired at days end, and it is these kids that get the worst of the teachers negative attitudes. All too often, teachers want to take credit for what the parents do, in terms of meaningful instruction. Conversely, too many in the teaching field want to blame the parents when the kid isn't responding as well as those who get the out of classroom coaching.
Any teacher caught shaming a student should be counseled with regard to the fact of a kid's fragile sense of self worth. Often enough, the ne'er do well student is already getting a verbal beatdown at home or from his peer group, and no matter what the kid's abilities are, there is no excuse for a teacher to join in on that cruel exercise..
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