Twat time!

ks3pink · December 2013

It's early. I don't want to go to work. These are going to be the longest three weeks of my life until Christmas break. Who's a twat today?

ks3pink · December 2013

I'm gonna start with the English teachers at the school I work at. Somehow the majority of their students pass their classes yet when I ask students to write a complete sentence in my class they have no idea what to do. They also don't realize that copy and paste is plagiarism. We get our ass chewed in the math department for our failure numbers but we have rigor in our courses and those passing truly know the material. Isn't that the purpose of school, to learn?!? Ugh.

I'm feeling bitchy today. I'm sure there will be more twats.

jessalynn521 · December 2013

Poor boats that sucks.

rp-chicago-mom · December 2013

H is a twat. He does things to help around the house but all he does is make more mess in the process. He never remembers where things go in the kitchen even though, at his request, I labeled all the shelves as though we live in a pre K classroom. He refuses to stop helping even though when he does, I take longer fixing what he did than if I did the whole thing myself. And if he sends one more straw from a sippy down the garbage disposal, I'm going to flip.

Maybe I'm the twat for being ungrateful.

gollywollypog · December 2013

@bpaws, my darling. Huge hugs to you. I think we are the same person sometimes. Emerys hanging onto my arm so I can't say much, but ILY, and i'tll get better.

BluepointToasted · December 2013

Aw @BPaws, I'm sorry your F is being such an inconsiderate douche. I hope by the time I am typing this he made up for it and you are feeling better.

tumblefluff · December 2013

My coworker for leaving a few hours of work for me to finish today from the previous day. I couldn't start my own work until that was done. Thanks, I really enjoyed having to stay late at work to finish everything up so the same thing didn't happen tomorrow.

piphigirl · December 2013

SpringMomv2 said:

ks3pink said:

I'm gonna start with the English teachers at the school I work at. Somehow the majority of their students pass their classes yet when I ask students to write a complete sentence in my class they have no idea what to do. They also don't realize that copy and paste is plagiarism. We get our ass chewed in the math department for our failure numbers but we have rigor in our courses and those passing truly know the material. Isn't that the purpose of school, to learn?!? Ugh.

I'm feeling bitchy today. I'm sure there will be more twats.

wait so i'm confused. are you a math teacher asking students to write complete sentences and write reports?

Probably. Research shows that literacy across the curriculum greatly improves student achievement.

@ks3pink - As an English teacher, in the past I have co-taught content area lessons with the other teachers to reinforce the idea of transferring skills into math and science. It as worked!

ks3pink · December 2013

SpringMomv2 said:

ks3pink said:

I'm gonna start with the English teachers at the school I work at. Somehow the majority of their students pass their classes yet when I ask students to write a complete sentence in my class they have no idea what to do. They also don't realize that copy and paste is plagiarism. We get our ass chewed in the math department for our failure numbers but we have rigor in our courses and those passing truly know the material. Isn't that the purpose of school, to learn?!? Ugh.

I'm feeling bitchy today. I'm sure there will be more twats.

wait so i'm confused. are you a math teacher asking students to write complete sentences and write reports?

Yes. Basically because the English scores are so low and the graduation papers are so terrible the entire staff has to incorporate writing into their curriculum. Whereas our students do well on their math exams but don't have great grades during the year and we get fussed at all year. So basically the English teachers are passing them to keep administration off their backs and it's coming back on everyone. Not cool.

ks3pink · December 2013

piphigirl said:

SpringMomv2 said:

ks3pink said:

I'm gonna start with the English teachers at the school I work at. Somehow the majority of their students pass their classes yet when I ask students to write a complete sentence in my class they have no idea what to do. They also don't realize that copy and paste is plagiarism. We get our ass chewed in the math department for our failure numbers but we have rigor in our courses and those passing truly know the material. Isn't that the purpose of school, to learn?!? Ugh.

I'm feeling bitchy today. I'm sure there will be more twats.

wait so i'm confused. are you a math teacher asking students to write complete sentences and write reports?

Probably. Research shows that literacy across the curriculum greatly improves student achievement.

@ks3pink - As an English teacher, in the past I have co-taught content area lessons with the other teachers to reinforce the idea of transferring skills into math and science. It as worked!

That would be great if there was time. I am sure you are an awesome English teacher but most of ours just show movies based on books. Seriously. It's bad. If they taught in their classroom we wouldn't have these issues.

SpruceGrouse · December 2013

ks3pink said:

I'm gonna start with the English teachers at the school I work at. Somehow the majority of their students pass their classes yet when I ask students to write a complete sentence in my class they have no idea what to do. They also don't realize that copy and paste is plagiarism. We get our ass chewed in the math department for our failure numbers but we have rigor in our courses and those passing truly know the material. Isn't that the purpose of school, to learn?!? Ugh. I'm feeling bitchy today. I'm sure there will be more twats.

Sadly, this doesn't end with university students, or even grad students (at the masters level, PhDs won't make it but somehow some masters students do). DH was marking a 3 rd year paper where the guy couldn't form complete sentences or paragraphs then suddenly the paper turned into a beautifully written intelligent paper for a whole paragraph (obviously copied and pasted). At least that guy got a 0 but how he got to 3 rd year is a mystery. It gets me mad actually.

SpruceGrouse · December 2013

Hugs to you Bpaws

piphigirl · December 2013

ks3pink said:

ks3pink said:

I'm gonna start with the English teachers at the school I work at. Somehow the majority of their students pass their classes yet when I ask students to write a complete sentence in my class they have no idea what to do. They also don't realize that copy and paste is plagiarism. We get our ass chewed in the math department for our failure numbers but we have rigor in our courses and those passing truly know the material. Isn't that the purpose of school, to learn?!? Ugh. I'm feeling bitchy today. I'm sure there will be more twats.

wait so i'm confused. are you a math teacher asking students to write complete sentences and write reports?
Probably. Research shows that literacy across the curriculum greatly improves student achievement. @ks3pink - As an English teacher, in the past I have co-taught content area lessons with the other teachers to reinforce the idea of transferring skills into math and science. It as worked!
That would be great if there was time. I am sure you are an awesome English teacher but most of ours just show movies based on books. Seriously. It's bad. If they taught in their classroom we wouldn't have these issues.

Preach it. I am fortunate to teach in a magnet PBL program within a larger district school. One of my co-teachers has a daughter who attends the regular program and takes mostly honors and AP classes. She has watched a movie every day in her history class this year.

And the staff is incredulous as to why we have only 18% of students proficient. Well, look at how you're teaching, people.

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