About Those Rubrics
Cidu Bill on Mar 27th 2009
On the other hand (going off-topic a bit), my younger son’s fourth-grade teacher would have given him a low grade for this project even if he’d followed the rubric perfectly, since it was her belief that parents should do most of the work on a student’s project. Not “It’s okay for parents to do most of the work,” but “Parents are expected to do most of the work, and my grading system reflects the expectation of parent-quality work.”
Really.
And I’m not just saying this was her belief — She actually told me this explicitly, criticizing me for letting my son create his project on his own. I even asked her to repeat herself, on the off-chance that I’d misunderstood.
I’ve always wondered why it’s acceptable (and in this nutjob’s case mandatory) for parents to make their kids’ science projects for them, but not for parents to write their kids’ essays for them. I am, after all, a much better writer than I am a Styrofoam solar system creator, so why is it “irresponsible” for my kid not to use me “as a resource” (quoting that teacher) in science, but not in English?
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