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Because it's an appeal to authority. "I know it’s frustrating but respect the teachers. They are qualified experts on child education. They have the best inten
by engi_nerd 11y ago
Because it's an appeal to authority.
"I know it’s frustrating but respect the teachers. They are qualified experts on child education. They have the best intentions for the students in mind. This teacher made a decision based off a lot more information about the student and class setting than we can tell from a photo. We don’t have to agree with it, but we can respect it." ...Why, exactly? Because they're experts?
That's hardly redeemed by the following, "If you are confused, ask them why they did something before you discredit a teacher on the internet."
- rayiner 11y agoI don't see it as an appeal to authority so much as an appeal to understand that the decisions are "based off a lot more information about the student and class setting than we cal tell from a photo."
- engi_nerd 11y agoBut that's all most parents are ever going to see. I have had coworkers, all degreed electrical engineers, show me some of their children's homework and ask me to figure it out, because they couldn't. Similarly, many existing teachers weren't trained in any of this, just told to go do it. The ideas behind common core are not bad ideas, but the execution has been woeful.