{"id":551,"date":"2010-09-29T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/teacher-attitudes\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:48:42","slug":"teacher-attitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/teacher-attitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I overheard this today:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The kid is 18, he should just go get a job.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>ARGH!&#160; This is one of the two reasons we are on the bad list of schools.&#160; We aren&#8217;t graduating enough students fast enough nor are we graduating enough kids.<\/p>\n<p>My attitude (I teach an elective, and so does the teacher who said this)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I teach an elective.&#160; To keep my job, I have to get kids in the door.<\/li>\n<li>No kid should not graduate because he flunked my class &#8212; by the way, only breathing oxygen will get you a failing grade.&#160; But I have a system that keeps kids going and successful.\n<ul>\n<li>If you couldn&#8217;t do the work the first six weeks, you get a 70.<\/li>\n<li>If you couldn&#8217;t do the work the second six weeks, you get a 65<\/li>\n<li>If you couldn&#8217;t do the work the third six weeks, you get a 60 &#8230; etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>That way, you have a chance if you suddenly wake up and figure it out.<\/li>\n<li>I have to start with what I have and then move to them to where I want them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The prevailing attitude is the opposite, which is what I think got us in trouble in the first place.&#160; Especially that last one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I overheard this today: &quot;The kid is 18, he should just go get a job.&quot; ARGH!&#160; This is one of the two reasons we are on the bad list of schools.&#160; We aren&#8217;t graduating enough students fast enough nor are we graduating enough kids. My attitude (I teach an elective, and so does the teacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}