Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!

I think your administrator is silently saying - he/she doesn't
know the underlying solution. What do we do with a kid who's
failed two years in a row? Doesn't show up, doesn't do make
up work.
What do we do? Stand him against a wall and threaten him
physically? Can't do that. Lock him in a closet at society's
expense until he shoves completed work under the door to us?

What's the big picture here? Past your own individual
frustration and the feeling that your 'turf' has been
violated, what is the solution to kids like this? Hold him
back another year? How many years will he hold him in high
school? 3? 5? 10?

How many of these kids can your school hold? Do you have
special programs for them? My school would be bursting at the
seams. No one yet has the answer to this significant problem.
Now at least the kid's not your school's problem anymore and
not yours.
Try to take some consolation in that and focus on your other
students - if you teach inner city, you're plenty busy.
>
>
> Am I crazy? Am I alone? Has any one else had to deal with
> this?

Posts on this thread, including this one

Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by BMoreTeacher.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by Rodeo.
Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley .
Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley .
Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by LbP.
Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by What????.
Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by Rodeo.
Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP.
Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by L. Swilley .
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by Sara.
Re: NCLB, 5/17/08, by to Rodeo.
Re: Further on this interesting case / completely agree, 5/17/08, by Sara.
Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by ACP.
Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/17/08, by I agree.
Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by To ACP.
Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by BMorePeachy.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by think of the workplace.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by high school English teacher.
Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by L. Swilley .
Re: A question - tracking students early on , 5/18/08, by BTrack.
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by BMoreTeacher .
Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/19/08, by Catsister.

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