Teachers here in Palm Beach County are running into a ton of cheating by students with the distance learning. You know how? Nope, not searching the Internet. PARENTS are doing their kids schoolwork and taking their tests. Grades have shot up dramatically and obviously fraudulently. It's insane.
Quote: @StickyBun said:
Teachers here in Palm Beach County are running into a ton of cheating by students with the distance learning. You know how? Nope, not searching the Internet. PARENTS are doing their kids schoolwork and taking their tests. Grades have shot up dramatically and obviously fraudulently. It's insane.
thats a simple fix, make finals mandatory in person in a setting created for social distancing, set up the gymnasium and lunch rooms and other large areas with desks 10 feet apart and let the chips fall where they may. if they cant pass their finals... to bad. it would have to take place over several weeks to get all the kids cycled through but simply passing them because they did home work is not doing the kids any favors for their future.
Quote: @BigAl99 said:
Too much area to make a general statement about, but here's my generalization anyway, its all about parent modeling. I am the first in my family to get a college degree, my wife is a second generation STEM PHD. She led me, by example, through my masters program, my son is a PHD, both of my other children have advanced degrees and are not done yet. My wife was the one that showed them, and myself, its all about effort and work, not just natural ability and external accolades, that's what gets you where you end up.
Agreed. What we show our kids is much more valuable than anything we give them.
And @ StickyBun just so you know, this thread was what prompted me to post my brag thread. I thought perhaps we need a bit of positive to counter all the craziness.
Quote: @greediron said:
@ BigAl99 said:
Too much area to make a general statement about, but here's my generalization anyway, its all about parent modeling. I am the first in my family to get a college degree, my wife is a second generation STEM PHD. She led me, by example, through my masters program, my son is a PHD, both of my other children have advanced degrees and are not done yet. My wife was the one that showed them, and myself, its all about effort and work, not just natural ability and external accolades, that's what gets you where you end up.
Agreed. What we show our kids is much more valuable than anything we give them.
And @ StickyBun just so you know, this thread was what prompted me to post my brag thread. I thought perhaps we need a bit of positive to counter all the craziness.
Love it. Its a great success story, thanks for sharing about your son.
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