{"id":1801,"date":"2022-08-25T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","slug":"teacher-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"TEACHER FAILS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teachers have a tough job and I am willing to give my kids&#8217; teachers a lot of grace.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there are certain practices that I have little patience for. Here are three:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Making negative blanket statements to the students about their class as a whole. &#8220;You all are just being lazy.&#8221; &#8220;Did any of you study for this test?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Directing sarcasm at students, either individually or as a group. &#8220;Wow. You all got that answer correct &#8211; I knew eventually we would find a question you knew the answer to.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Being unable to admit that if you give a quiz or test that everyone bombs, the fault is yours alone. You have failed as a teacher: either the test was poorly designed or the lessons were poorly delivered. Instead of shaming the students, you should be apologizing to them.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(In my teaching days I was sometimes guilty of the first two, but never the third.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a parent I can see this more clearly than I ever did from the front of the classroom: if a child leaves your room feeling stupid and defeated, you have fundamentally failed as a teacher.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers have a tough job and I am willing to give my kids&#8217; teachers a lot of grace. But there are certain practices that I have little patience for. Here are three: (In my teaching days I was sometimes guilty of the first two, but never the third.)\u00a0 As a parent I can see this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}