Okay....so my blogs have been sort of random and without much direction lately because I haven't felt any real passion about anything. Well....today that changed.
My daughter works very hard at school. She completes all of her assignments on time and goes above and beyond what is asked of her to do. She is in all Pre-AP classes (honors classes for those of you unfamiliar with the education system). She plays sports and she competes in academic events for the school. She was crushed tonight when she got a single bad grade that killed her average. Now, I keep telling her it is not a big deal. It is the 1st week of the 9 weeks and she has plenty of time to kick that grade up but, I'm certain she is upstairs crying her eyes out as she showers because they were about to start flowing when she left the room. Bet you think I'm going to whine about the teacher right? Wrong!
I'm going to bitch about the parents that do their kids homework for them. She said to me, "Now K and M are going to tease me even more that they have a better grade than me." I made mention to her that "K's" mom is an algebra teacher so of course she is probably pretty good at math. I was a little surprised when the response I got was, "Her mom does her homework for her." Nope, don't think I'm overreacting here and that there aren't parents out there who do this for their kids....because I have had 6....yes 6 emails and letters sent home in A's class telling asking parents to quit sending in their kids homework in the parent's handwriting. That the kids need to do their homework themselves. Wow, how sad is it that we are doing our kids homework for them.
I read an email exchange between a parent and a teacher today where the parent is complaining because the kid didn't get a "review" prior to the test. What the kid failed to tell the parent was not only did he get a review they were given class time to study and he opted not to. He even got the opportunity to make corrections to raise the miserable grade he got and the mom is still bitching.
We have all these parents who when little Johnny ends up failing out of school or failing in life sit back and wonder...where did I go wrong? They wonder why their kid is so disrespectful when they get in to high school or feel the world owes them and they are never wrong. Well DUH!!! We are raising a generation of entitlement. They aren't generation Y or Z any longer unless you rearrange those letters and put them with an LA in front!
I would much rather my child earn her bad grade than have me do her work for her and I earn her good grade....but I guess I'm not the typical parent these days. So....as I hug her goodnight tonight, I will tell her again how proud I am of her for doing her OWN work....and being active in her school and being the best kid she knows how to be....other than I really wish she would exchange those friends but...that's a lesson for another day.
*side note....I really don't think she got the grade she did anyway..I think it is a major typo in the computer gradebook but none the less....I'm not going to blame the teacher....just let R figure this out for herself.
A parent entitled to be pissed off!
Pandora
2 comments:
This isn't new and has been going on for some time now. I can remember back when I was in school and completing with classmates both in and out of school knowing their parents did their science projects, derby cars and so on. I noticed it had increased when my daughter started school and it will continue. I keep hope out that we as parents will realize one day how off track we are.
Me too.....I was happy to find out though that her grade was actually a good grade....a 10 turned in to 100. Some things don't change I guess. It just seems that things have gotten a lot worse. Parents are almost rabid at times about giving their kids a "leg up". Those kids aren't going to have a clue when they get in to the "real world" how to function. But then again, as we've both seen up close and personal these same parents bail them out as adults. I attribute our lack of a work ethic in our country and lack of respect for ourselves, our communities, our world to this blase attitude our children are raised with and this sense of entitlement.
Just my two cents!
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