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Posted on 10/07/09

On 10/07/09, Tyler wrote:
> 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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