She's just there to watch us. She told us that this is an honors-level class, and honors students should be able to teach themselves.Wow. So our Harpy is apparently moonlighting as a sub in math, now.
Seriously-- this is SO MUCH like what she actually said to one of DD's closest friends. Honors Biology, term project worth 20% of their course grade... NO guidelines, no instructions, no nothing. So he calls to ask.
"You're an honors student. YOU figure it out."
Yeah, sorry-- but even bright kids need
some kind of teaching. Maybe it's not what most students need, but this mentality of laziness pedagogically HAS to stop. It just has to.
I get
very angry at the implication that if my daughter can't
teach HERSELF trigonometry, statistics, calculus, physics... German....
that she must "not be that bright."
It just doesn't seem to me like a
wee bit of effort is too much to ask. Is an hour or two of weekly instruction with a living teacher too much to expect?? KWIM?
