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Originally Posted by MathGeek
Everyone laughs, but how many complain that the math teacher must be doing something wrong when their child is failing math. Everyone would be better off if parents fully supported a teacher's authority in the classroom, made sure their children were completing their homework every day, and were inclined to ask what their child was doing wrong when their math grades started to slide.
A child who knows he can blame the teacher and not face parental accountability for bad math grades will not learn math. Parents who pull strings with administrators to get their child a passing math grade that was not earned are contributing to this dismal situation.
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Exactly!! I hated math so much that still to this day if I walk into the math building on UL campus I get nauseous. That was still no excuse for not trying. I would come home with that BS a kid feeds his parents when he's failing and I would get a quick smack to the head. No way would they let me blame the teacher. After countless nights of helping me with my homework and even giving me test at home, I made a 100 in my algebra class, and now I work with numbers all day long.
Today parents wouldn't put down their TV show to help their kid succeed. They think their kid is perfect and the teacher must be horrible because there is no way my little angle is failing a class. People can't take accountability for $hit today and that's one of the reason we have a society of sheep!