Kids - School Grades

If kids are only getting like 10-15 minutes of instruction, I’m not sure how they fell behind during Covid. You could easily just watch a video of that.

Our math and science teachers would always work through problems with the kids after introducing a topic. Maybe have kids do some board work or have everyone do the problems to see if they grasped the concept. If they seemed to understand they would assign homework, if not just work on it more until they did. That was always a break, do you have math homework? Nope, half the class doesn’t get the unit circle.

Other courses like history or English lit always involved classroom discussion and Spanish involved lots of speaking Spanish.

I always thought some of our teachers were kind of lazy but at least they weren’t using 60 percent of their class time supervising study hall.
 
Let's put it this way. 1 class has a quick lecture then gives 30 minutes to work on something. Knock it out in 15 and spend the next 15 on other homework. I'm not the smartest person in the world but have always worked fast. I don't have enough fingers to count how many times I was the 1st done with an exam in college but I also only had a 3.15 at ISU.
Ok I feel better now, always figured those kids were acing it. Though I did that once for a summer econ class and it did feel bad ass.
 
Ok I feel better now, always figured those kids were acing it. Though I did that once for a summer econ class and it did feel bad ass.

Oh, you never know what's coming from the early folks turning stuff in.
I had one guy who plainly wasn't interested in the class (or probably any of his classes).

On our first exam, I noticed that he wasn't writing anything. He waited 35 minutes for the first guy to turn in an exam, then followed right after. I asked him how it went, because I wanted to see what he'd say. He said, "I think it went really well."

I read it a few minutes after he left. He skipped the first half of the test, and his essay was, and I quote "I don't know. I didn't study this crap."

That's still a favorite. Rhoads didn't exactly have academic standards for his guys.
 

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