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by pclowes 21 days ago
High Schools don’t support teachers who are confronted by angry parents who are mad that you are ruining their kids chance at an Ivy by giving them a B- in HS algebra (meanwhile the ivies remedial math classes are packed more than ever)
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> High Schools don’t support teachers who are confronted by angry parents

When I took the California high school exit exam, it was already a joke. Still, the news was filled with people treating every failure as a failure of the test.