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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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juiceyangel333 · 31-35, F

Depends how she lost the exams and if this had happened before with the same teacher.

It is a mistake and I don't think the teacher intentionally wanted to lose the exams... But sometimes it's one of those difficult subjects and maybe a student studied their ass off, only for the teacher to be so careless.

It's not as simple as just rewriting the test or using a student's previous marks. Usually when a test is reset to be written, it's way more difficult for the student. The teacher wouldn't give the same test as before... So it is actually an inconvenience.

Also what if a student doesn't want to rewrite the test and perhaps they would've gotten a good mark in that test that the teacher lost? And this same student had bad results throughout the semester, now this teacher's mistake has caused this student an inconvenience.

We have to look at the bigger picture.

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Cierzo · M

@juiceyangel333 It happened some time ago. It has not happened again. I agree it would be difference if it had.

There is not a perfect solution, but the way I see the bigger picture is that all of us have to deal with human mistakes sometimes. They are irritating, but that's the price we pay for being social beings.

juiceyangel333 · 31-35, F

@SW-User uhm what?

juiceyangel333 · 31-35, F

@Cierzo yeah but the solution is also not black and white. It's not as easy as just rewriting the exam or using the students previous assessments.

If it was tests during the semester, it would be more understandable... But to lose exams, that's quite serious.