I nailed a couple of kids for cheating on their homework today. They were shocked. Not that I had caught them, but that I told them it was totally not OK and that they would be getting a "zero" on the assignment as a result.
I'm just sort of amazed at a lot of my students' attitudes about school. Mainly, that their education is not a priority and that I'm being unreasonable by expecting them to learn something. When complaining about the homework assignment the other day (oh, the complaining. The constant complaining), one girl actually said, "We have lives you know, Miss Garcia. Do you expect us not to have a life?"
Well, you can probably imagine that I lost it at that and gave a lengthly discourse on how their lives are wholly dependent on their education and how their job is school right now and if they don't take this job seriously, they won't ever have a job to take seriously again.
They looked at me like I was speaking Greek.
They probably don't even know where Greek is spoken.
I couldn't import the charts I made (yes, I made them), but the breakdown, percentage-wise, of grades in my two 9th grade classes looks a little bit like this:
Period 1
A - 5%
B - 33%
C - 43%
D - 5%
F - 14%
Period 6
A - 5%
B - 19%
C - 24%
D - 14%
F - 38%
At least Period 1 has a slightly modified bell curve, but Period 6 has a serious "group think" problem. Once one fails, all the rest follow. Lemmings, the whole lot of them...
6 years ago
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Ah, yes. Of course, some of those students will only realize years later that what they learned in your class was necessary and important.
Now? Though? I have girls whom I have to confiscate eyeliner from every. single. day. Or they will attempt to apply it during class.
I have started selling it back to them for a dime. I'm sure that's illegal, but hey, it's working.
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