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I Am a Teacher

During one of my lessons, a student asked my opinion about a teacher who had lost a bunch of exams.

I answered him that anyone can make a mistake, and if that happened to me (fortunately it has never happened so far), I would give each student individually the choice between being assessed using the rest of their grades, or take the exam again.

The boy went on saying that this teacher who lost the exams should be severely punished. I replied that I would have agreed with him when I was his age, but as I have grown older, I have become more lenient with mistakes who have its source in distraction, and less with those whose foundatilns are in laziness, ignorance, or selfishness.

How would you have reacted?

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Anonymouslyyours86 · 36-40, F

What do you mean he lost exams? I don’t understand?

Cierzo · M

@Anonymouslyyours86 The teacher could not find a bunch of exams she had picked from students despite her searching for them everywhere.

Anonymouslyyours86 · 36-40, F

That’s ridiculous those are students futures in her hand how could she have lost them ?@Cierzo

Cierzo · M

@Anonymouslyyours86 We teachers handle hundreds of papers. It is not hard to misplace some of them.

Anonymouslyyours86 · 36-40, F

Yeah some of them but not all of them these students worked hard and stress over their futures enough because of exams @Cierzo

Cierzo · M

@Anonymouslyyours86 A good, reliable educative system should be able to accept that human errors happen, and provide solutions.

Anonymouslyyours86 · 36-40, F

Yeah the solution is use technology for exams you can’t lose them that way, regardless what computer system you use!!@Cierzo