in case anyone was wondering, the Grand Forks Public School system are a joke! their teachers are lazy and incompetent and they don't believe in disciplining kids. A great example of their lack of competency...my daughter has brought home several spelling tests this year where she missed several words and should have failed the test, but instead the teacher gives her an 'A' to "encourage her" to do better. That doesn't encourage her to do jack shit! all that is doing is teaching her that she doesn't have to study and take the consequences of not studying. This worthless teacher isn't doing my daughter (and presumably other kids as well) any favors by giving them false As.
A great example of their lack of discipline is this. My daughter has been tardy 8 times this year. I have tried taking care of this by moving her bedtime up to 7:30 and making her get up at 6. But that hasn't worked. The school doesn't hand out detention or make her stay in at recess or write lines or anything! they just send me some lame ass letter about how the "stay in school intervention team" and social services are getting involved! Bullshit! she doesn't need an intervention team, she needs some god damn discipline at school! there hasn't been any as of yet and my punishing her at home clearly isn't working. The first line of defense, so to speak, needs to come from the school. They need to try something first BEFORE I punish her at home. even if it is as simple as keeping her in at recess on days she is tardy to make up for the time she missed. I'm not going to stand over her shoulder every minute of the day and make her do what she is supposed to do, she needs to learn to be responsible and she WILL learn that if she is made to be accountable for her actions, both at home and at school.
The school teachers forge grades, refuse to discipline and ignore valid concerns from both parents and students, then they can't figure out why the hell the kids are rude, lazy, inconsiderate and irresponsible! maybe they should get their heads out of their asses, stop worrying about being negative and trying to sugar coat every damn thing and TEACH the kids and DISCIPLINE them when they are out of line. Seriously, 15 years from now these kids are gonna be the ones in charge of the country, are these the attitudes and values we want them to have when they are in charge of us?
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ReplyDeleteThough I do think you are too hard on her SOMEtimes (no offense) I totally agree. Frankly I was hugely disappointed in my HS education and felt I only ever learned anything from two-three teachers who taught life lessons and their own rubric against the will of the principal and school board. Nobody coming out of the grand forks system is ready for college or the real world because the school system babies them and slides them through. All the school is teaching her is that you are the bad guy and the school is normalcy. But seriously, we should have all seen it coming when they banned dodgeball and tag because it "makes kids feel bad". That never happened to me, I just felt frustrated enough to get better at running and faster at dodging.
ReplyDeletethe are so worried about being "fair" and politically correct and getting sued that kids don't have to do any work or put in any effort to keep going. it sucks. plain and simple. there are also no reprimands for bad behavior then they can't figure out why they have so many discipline issues. idiots
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