Reply #68: When I taught [View All]

[Yupster]

if you flunked 20 % of a particular class, you were circled in red on the grade list the principal got and a private meeting was scheduled. The principal asked you what you could do to change your instructional techniques to help the kids succeed better than they were.

We were told specifically, that what the principal was not telling us was to pass kids who didn't deserve to pass. The lesson we all learned was, don't ever flunk over 20 % of any class. That was sometimes difficult because if I had 25 kids in a class, 20 % is only 5. I may have had three kids who I saw once a week or less. That only left one possible failure among the other 20+ kids.