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?

4meAndyou · F

I would have asked him if he FOUND a "bunch" of lost exams. If he said no, then I would have asked him how we could possibly form an opinion of someone who lost or mislaid something?

And I would ask him his opinion of a man or a woman who lost his or her keys. Should that person also be severely punished?

I might explain, if he was still unsatisfied, that many academics are absent-minded, but that is often a sign of deep thought.