Avalanche!
January 10th, 2007 | by Vinny |
Apparently Skippy’s teachers just realized that next week is a Standardized Testing week. They will have to curtail their assignments and tests while the students take the English/ Language Arts exam.
As such, they are piling on two weeks worth of work this week. Skippy cam home with piles of homework in every subject, as well as a number of projects.
- He has to do a report on plate tectonics, focusing on the Scotia Plate. The only links he could find (my wife looked too) were written on a graduate level. Report due Friday. Test that day too.
- He wrote a report over the holiday break for English, using the assignment sheet he received before the break. The paper is due in 2 weeks, so Skippy handed it in today for feedback. The teacher looked at the paper today (first one handed in) and called it a good start. He’s revising the assignment, because no one does it until the week before it’s due.
- Math test, which was planned for next week, but was advanced to Thursday.
- Social Studies test tomorrow.
- Health test on Friday. (I think he procrastinated on this one, though)
I have to give him credit, though. He has come home every day since the break and worked from arrival to bedtime without fail. He goes to rehearsal for the play at least 3 days each week, and still manages to work hard at home. He’s achy from dance rehearsals, but won’t take a bath until the weekend because he doesn’t have the time.
I don’t know if I could work that hard. He certainly isn’t getting much love from the school. They work him harder and harder each day. A number of his teachers, however, don’t return phone calls. they don’t respond to emails. He was out sick for a week in the late fall, and was told by the long-term sub in his Social Studies class that he would not have to make up 5 assignments. He didn’t. Then he was given zeros for each of them, and his grade dropped about 10 points for the first quarter. My wife had to call the Assistant Superintendent because no one would even return her calls about this problem which we’ve been fighting for 3 months.
Did you ever have one of those bosses who asked more and more from you, and then gave you no credit for the work you’d done? All they did was find fault with your work? Imagine handing in a 13 page paper, making 1 punctuation mistake, and getting a 95. The imagine the student sitting next to you hands in a 3 page paper, makes 13 mistakes, and gets a 95. (True story) Would you work harder? I find myself telling my son to do less. Imagine that you have to do less because you don’t get credit for it, and you only raise everyone’s expectation of you.
What a tragic state of affairs. He’s being great about it, and I just want to go up there and start kicking people in the ass. I can’t believe I worked at that joint.
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