Metro, yucko...

When I picked up kiddo the other day they were pretty ticked off. IMHO, they had a good reason to be. Kiddo was the only kid in the 25ish person class who had gotten an A on a math test. Well, the rest of the class is probably people who failed the class the first time, but kiddo had never taken the class before and was soaking up a semester worth of stuff in three weeks' time. Some kid in class kept whining that they didn't understand what the teacher had been asking for. The teacher said, "well, someone DID understand what I was asking for!" and pointed at kiddo...who had legitimately gotten 100% on the test. This is the kind of class where a teacher could have looked over the math answer and given partial credit for understanding the process but not getting the right answer. Instead the teacher just caved to the kid whining and said "okay, everyone else will get 100% too." Kiddo had even done the extra credit question on the test and gotten that correct too. Had to tell kiddo that even though they had a teacher who was being very lax in my estimation and kiddo's as well, it is important to remember that kiddo was the only one who legitimately got 100% and the rest of the class got 100% but they couldn't really do the work and that would come out later in their lives. I was proud of kiddo, but ticked about how the teacher handled it, obviously. Let's lower the standard because a student whines...arrgh...