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Originally Posted by nomadking
So you're saying that everybody's education should be allowed to be totally screwed up because someone else has a reason/excuse?
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An example. more than 25 years ago in junior school I had trouble understanding franctions. I mean REAL trouble, I could not get my head around them. Everyone else in the class could but not me. After several attempts, the teacher gave up.
When my parents could see I was making no progress they contacted the school to ask the teacher what was happening. Her response "Well, he did fall behind and we had to move on". My parents went ape.
Rather than contact them to suggest some possible out-of-hours schooling or or other methods, she simply brushed me aside.
To this day I still have trouble with fractions. I genuinely believe if she had
actually tried instead of making life easier for herself, I'd have a better understanding. She couldn't even be bothered to offer a suggestion. She didn't even see fit to contact my parents, she was happy to brush me out of the way.
Back to this story. The teaching assistant clearly has no understanding of how to deal with children. This indicates to me she should not be in charge of them. It's nobody's fault but her own. She could have requested assistance or even training as soon as she knew of the girl's condition.
There are some really good teaching staff out there but truly there are some abysmal ones.