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Originally Posted by AAAAA
My son came home from school with an additional 350 Spanish words to define because another kid was acting up. The other kid was irritating the teacher on purpose because "I don't care, I'm not going to do them anyway."
My son has been working very hard to keep his grades up, he's getting his driver's license and his grades affect our insurance rates (a rant for another day).
This type of peer pressure doesn't work! I'm SO tired of having my son doing homework until all hours of the night because OTHER kids are acting up. It's the same bleeping kids in every class. Whatever happened to kicking those kids out of the class and having the principal and parents deal with them?
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When my children were in school I had a similar issue, while it wasn't the others kids acting up, it was one particular teacher always had the kids work in groups on projects and reports, etc. Everyone in the group got the same grade....my kid did all the work. I met with the teacher, he didn't know any other way to do it, he said he chose the groups and would put one person in each group that he knew would see to it that the work got done. That was unacceptable to me. I went to the principal and spoke to her and explained what was going on. Needless to say, things changed and the teacher was not allowed to do that any more. He could still chose the groups and put one person in each group that he knew would do it, but he could not grade them the same. I still hated that my kid had to do all the work, but at least they got the credit and not the ones who did nothing.
I would talk with the teacher and principal. Not sure how big your school district is, but I spoke with the superintendent at times on a couple different issues.
Don't give up and stick to your guns!
