Sheila, I know parents can be brutal, but we are teachers. We
have degrees and we practice our skills every day. We are
formally trained professionals and I'm not sure why a principal
or any school level administrator would order a change due to an
upset parent. Perhaps there is too much dependency on AR? If a
student got 1 bad test score on AR, why should they get to
retest? I love my job but if I tried to tell an autom mechanic
how to do their job, how many would listen? Did I stay at a
Holliday Inn last night? :)

Parents will be parents. Administration just wants the issue to
go away, but if its a common issue, the administration needs to
stick up for their teachers and their curriculum. Just my 2
cents.

On 9/30/09, Sheila wrote:
> If someone used my name to send you an email, it wasn't me. I
> only post on the site, not to an individual. I discovered this
> site very recently. I am a huge proponent of AR and have used
> it for 14 years. I work in a small private school and my
> principal says one of the biggest complaints he gets is parents
> who complain about their kids getting no points for tests below
> a 60. He says in any other subject, you would still get some
> credit for low scores, but he has not been trained on AR and
> how it works so I wasn't getting through to him. He needed to
> appease the parents so he was going to make us give them some
> points somehow, by either doing a book report, letting them
> take the test again, or completely throw out AR! I was beside
> myself and came here for help and advice which I did get some
> from a few teachers. I also got slammed by a few, but I agree
> with Deb. We need to help each other out and if you do not
> like AR, you should go somewhere else to gripe about it. This
> is a place for people who do use AR and want help using it.
> Thanks!
>
>
> On 9/29/09, Ima Teacher wrote:
>> If I've learned one thing on this board over the years,
>> it's that most people who come here asking questions are
>> not really interested in answers or just want to argue.
>>
>> I have left the boards to allow them to "cool off" before,
>> but after I get home today to find three emails . . . two
>> of the same one from "Sheila", who didn't bother to give me
>> a way to reply and one from someone with no name who called
>> me a "know it all", I think I'm done . . . although I'm
>> sure nobody cares.

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