Why is it that when children can't spell or construct a sentence or do math problem it's the teacher's fault?
105769
Hmm, I believe you answered your own question. I would also agree that too many parents think school is too hard on their children, when the truth is that's the way it supposed to be. It's all about "stretching young minds."
53616
*sigh* Ok I need an hour to address this one. \n\nThere are so many factors to consider. School environment of course is a huge factor in a child's education and success. I agree that teacher's have a huge responsibility in making sure the students not only learn the skills but also the processes of learning. But just as a doctor's responsibility is to diagnose and prescribe the best cure, a teacher must diagnose a child's learning style and adjust their teaching style to accomodate those of the students. If a doctor has tried several prescriptions and the patient's body is not responding, do we blame the doctor? Therefore, why do we jump to blaming the teacher after he or she have tried several methods of teaching the material to the student? Do we blame the lawyer for not getting the serial murderer off the hook despite the evidence? Definitely not. \n\nDo we blame the policeman when crime is still on the streets? Hmmmm.......seems like we do. Do we blame the butcher for selling us tough meat when we overcook our steaks? Hmmmmm.......yes again. Do we blame the President of the United States when all domestic issues just don't seem to go according to plan? Yep......we surely do. So why is this? Could it be that society has gotten to a point where we refuse to accept our responsibilities? Are we spending more times placing blame on others instead of finding ways to make improvements starting right in our own households?\n\nTeachers, as all other professions, carry a heavy burden. But parents need to realize that the way their child learns is greatly influenced by the standards they set very early in life. If children know they are responsible for their behavior.....they behave. When children know they are held responsible for their learning......they become a student in every sense of the word. Teachers can teach and teach and teach and spoon feed and coddle and still a child that is not motivated to succeed will make no progress. \n\nIs it the fault of teachers that students don't always score high on tests? All cases are different........but indeed if we put our faith in the firemen, policemen, doctors, lawyers and politicians of the community.......we should surely lay our faith with the educators of today. \n\nLet education start at home.
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Giving them vocabulary, and making them write a complete sentence with every word. I must say, the whole teaching parts of the sentences gets lost on kids, it's pointless. Just make them write sentences, while it may be onerous, it's better. Also, you could write an incorrect sentence and have them rewrite it.
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I think that there is an increased tolerance for poor grammar and spelling in our junior high schools and high schools. I think that students have gotten lazy using the computer with spell check and no longer take the time to be certain that their language usage is correct.\n\nI also think that text messaging and chat rooms help the notion that poor spelling and typing skills are okay. In fact I think that their peers encourage poor writing skills with the use of "u" or "dat" in online communication.\n\nI also think that our children don't read enough and that schools don't do enough to encourage reading as a pleasureable passtime and to instill a love of learning, language, and literature into children.
992440
because most likely it was the parents who failed those kids  not the teachers.  Who by the way arent paid enough to baby sit the little crack addicted monsters.
352815
This type of 'mental gibberish' is very indicative of the fundamental problems in the academic world of education.  Better to ask 'hard' questions that require real research, real thinking, and real opportunity for rational critiquing.  This type of question is sadly pathetic. It explains why American school children can't think, can't perform basic math, and are totally afraid of anything labeled 'science'.  But... they sure 'feel good about themselves' and 'their opinions'!
608594
My pet hate is 'I done this or that...' We slaughter the English language. My nephew came home from school with a marked assignment which was to tell a story about his best holiday. Granted he is only 9 and his imagination and use of words was fantastic but his spelling, atrocious. His spelling mistakes were either not picked up or corrected incorrectly by his teacher.We were appalled as when questioned about this his teacher's reaction was 'We encourage imagination, not accuracy'. What! No wonder children cant put a sentence together if teachers cant.
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Most often because we are not really paying attention, or we have not prepared ourselves and so cannot integrate new information into what we already know about the subject.\n\nI've had some really bad teachers, so I know that is not always the case.\n\nMy nephew was a C student when he started college, dropped out for a few years, re-entered and got straight A's. He finished with an engineering scholarship for grad school, and was on the National Deans list. \nHis explanation, "I found out that paying attention and doing my homework on time changed me from dumb to smart"
888007
Hello Friend!\nSince I am a teacher I will have to say that most of the teachers punish the kids for their misbehaviour only. If the teacher gives them some homeworks, they don't take any care to do them. Kids are not the enemies to a teacher. The teachers want to make them perfect in all kinds of activities. Only the parents have to guide their kids about the noble profession of the teachers who are responsible for the future development of the kids.
933567
Why don't you teach them spelling?
251759
Not all teachers are smart and the Curriculum changes so often they can't be expected to know everything.\nMy French teacher (an actual French person) even had to look up the French for Tadpole.
156287
i wouldnt be worrying so much about grades, but the content.  if they are missing a lot of key concepts and ideas that are appropriate for that age level, something needs to be done.  im an educator in texas and we have spelling activities every week, cursive is taught in third, and science is all year.  but there is so much more to school than those few things.  from what you have said, it makes me wonder what else is falling through the cracks?  i would contact the school board, the district superintendants, and whoever else you need to get this resolved.  check up on required curriculum for the state and see if this school/class is meeting those.
1036962
Not all children in a grade-level classroom are at the same level in reading or math, therefore we can't simply teach them at 1 grade level. Instruction must be modified to meet students where they are, not where we think they should be. Teaching a child something above his/her current level of understanding won't help him/her learn. If we teach them information at a level they can understand they will learn and begin to 'catch up.'
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You'd never guess from the replies I get here on Answers. It looks like I'm dealing with first graders. We even have spellcheck!!!\n\nOh, and you'd never guess from my school spelling bees. We had kids dropping like flies from words like Banana, Cancel, Amplify? Not joking. It's sad....
643698
Schools shouldn't sell anything.  They ought to worry about whether their students are learning to read and write and add and subtract.
109511
Even the answers here can't get it right. Only one other so far had no spelling mistakes.  I wish I knew what the solution was to this because it bothers me, too.  It is not an earth-shattering problem of life-threatening proportions, but for sure it indicates a lesser degree of pride in our work product, and a greater degree of laziness as he said above.  I don't see it as a time saver, because I can spell correctly just as quickly as incorrectly. As for the crowded classroom argument, I went to a school that had 3 grades to each room with only one teacher, but we worked and we learned and we still know our stuff. *Throw my hands into the air!*
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no it is def not you. for example, the person who answered first gave the wrong "its", so there is prove right there. The problem is Microsoft Word. it corrects grammer, punc., and spelling so that people don't have to use their brains anymore. Technology is actually killing education slowly but surely.