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?
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?
