Set up for Failure

One way that teachers may seem to set the students up for failure is by the way they give second chances. Now, believe me, I think second chances for grades are an amazing opportunity for some people to be able to regain some points that they had previously missed. However, if the teacher only allows people with a grade below x percent to retake, then it would be reasonable to think that the other grades above x percent must be decently good. However, if after the retake, the people who did the retake are able to get a grade that is above x percent, and therefore subsequently better than the grade of those who were not allowed to retake or redo the assignment or activity for the missed points, well that is just unfair. It is awarding students for being jag offs by not being prepared for when the assignment or activity was due, and then awarding them more than others who were more prepared than those who had the option to do the retake.

One last way that some teachers may seem that way is if they are so strict in their grading of pop quizzes. If, for example, students are supposed to take notes from a textbook, a lot of students place the notes into their own words because there have been studies that prove that that helps to learn those concepts and terms more than just copying what the book says. However, then it should be acceptable to be able to write, in your own words, the correct answer to a question on a pop quiz. That therefore means that if you were to write down the correct answer on a pop quiz in your own words, you should get the question correct. However, some teachers would disagree and state that because the answer did not match the book definition or description word by word, then the answer is incorrect. That is complete crap because if you were to write something down that is the same thing as the correct answer, then you should get the answer correct. However, some teachers will say no, even when the quiz is a pop quiz and you still have the correct answer, just worded very slightly differently from w2hat the teacher expected, when the teacher expected everyone to somehow memorize the entire textbook reading word for word without letting the class or classes know.

Overall, there are some teachers that seem to set you up for failure. That is a horrible thing for some teachers to do, and it is just something that students have to overcome in the end.

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