IDoDis
Knows the password to get into the Moose Lodge
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Anyone else's kids taking an elective you weren't so sure about at first?
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the way the higher level learners are scheduled at DS school is 4 challenging (honors/AP level) classes, one class where they're a teacher's aid, and then a not so rigorous elective. DS is taking multimedia publishing. He wanted to get into Journalism (which surprised the heck out of me!) and it was full. It's a pretty good balance. Last year he took PE2. Now that was the one I wasn't so sure about. LOLOL
DD's AP Psych elective is going to mess up her wonderful GPA. Right now weighted it's a 4.25 and unweighted is a 4.0. Straight A student for 3 years in a row, and now this elective is going to change all of that. I don't want to be a whiner, but this guy does not give any relevant instruction/notes and only grades on tests. She has a 100 question multiple choice test every 2 weeks! 100 questions -- and many of the questions have six multiple-choice options. DD is smart, but with so much to study ALL the time, and no real direction from the teacher, she is not doing so great. She got a D on the first test and a C on the 2nd test. The class average was so low, that he added 10 points to everyone's last test, so that at least raised her score to a B. DD is getting discouraged and wishes she never took the darned class. She had enough credits to not even have that class and one other class she also took. She could have been out of school by 9:30am one day and 11:00 another day, but wanted to take the classes.
The teacher now says the students can take a make-up test, but he never gives the old tests back so they can see what they missed and what they need to study. He doesn't even tell them their grades. If a student asks what they got on the test he tells them they have to look it up online. He never reviews before the test or goes over things after the test, or in between tests, for that matter! DD is so frustrated! The teacher told the kids that they are wasting electrons in their brain worrying and instead should focus that energy on their school work.
