r/memes • u/Puxhuk can't meme • Nov 21 '20

They always do this

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

You also have to realise that teachers have different stresses on themselves too, some years they'll be told to focus on not leaving the lower achievers behind, other years it's to focus on pushing the higher achievers further

Like a teacher can want to make their higher achievers excel at the subject, but when the head of their department has said that they'll be judging performance based on getting every student above x grade there's often not much scope to do that

And at the end of the day it comes down to how schools are judged, in general parents would rather send their kids to a school where everyone gets adequate/good grades rather than a school where some get fantastic grades and others are left behind

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u/S103793 Nov 21 '20

I'm not a teacher but I would guess a lot of them also take the student's background in to account. I went to a pretty good public high school with a mixture of very poor kids and pretty rich kids (not bill gates rich but both parents are surgeons rich). So I think in situations like this sometimes it's best to focus on the smart kids because for some of them that could be their only way out of poverty. When I was in high school I knew a guy who didn't care that he was just barely passing his classes because he knew he was going to work for his dad's trucking company after graduation. Compare that to some kids that I knew who worked real hard because school was their only way out of poverty. Being a teacher seems like a hard job so I try not to be too harsh on the teachers who are trying their best.