Reply #22: that happened to me when I was teaching [View All]

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I had a Mom who wanted her kid to get straight A's. (He was a D student). They tried bribing me with tickets to NFL football games, leather bags with my name embroidered on them, etc. They used the sympathy card about him being disturbed if he was at the bottom of the class. He still got the D and we worked to bring it up to a C and then a B. That was in 2001. Today, his father emails me and we have a great friendship. The kid, well, he is still a C student and the class he was so worried about moved on and he no longer competes with them. He competes with the world, which is even more harsh. He's in Iraq.

The bottom line is that the kid's emotional problems began in the home, not in the classroom....He probably got beat for not turning his socks rightside out, too....