http://www.matthewktabor.com/2009/03/19/joanne-jacobs-our-school-2/ In Education for the Aughts, Matthew K. Tabor discusses issues in K-12 and higher education. He examines: college, law school & medical school admissions; NCLB & testing; teaching; teacher certification; parent & community relations; school law; school boards; & national education trends. Matthew is an admissions consultant and private educator. He writes out of Cooperstown, New York. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:30:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.matthewktabor.com/2009/03/19/joanne-jacobs-our-school-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3501 Terry Freedman Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:20:48 +0000 http://www.matthewktabor.com/2009/03/19/734/#comment-3501 In my first teaching job, after many unsuccessful attempts at getting a very brigt student to work, I wrote on his report that he wouldn't fail the course because given his current showing I wouldn't bother entering him for the examination. His parents came to see me, and the next day the student came to me and told me that his parents apppreciated my honesty and that from then on he was going to pull his weight -- which he did. IMO, honesty is ALWAYS the best policy, and anything else is just patronising codswallop. In my first teaching job, after many unsuccessful attempts at getting a very brigt student to work, I wrote on his report that he wouldn’t fail the course because given his current showing I wouldn’t bother entering him for the examination. His parents came to see me, and the next day the student came to me and told me that his parents apppreciated my honesty and that from then on he was going to pull his weight — which he did. IMO, honesty is ALWAYS the best policy, and anything else is just patronising codswallop.

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