My grade 8 classes finished their exams last thing today.. I have managed to get one set of papers marked and graded tonight leaving just 4 more classes to do.
In this first set of papers I had the 2 boys who are in grave danger of failing the year...
After marking their exams they failed the year by .1 of a grade. So here is the question.
Grade 8 kids next year do not get Technology.
If I fail these 2 kids and they have failed 2 other subjects they will be forced to repeat the year.
If they have failed 3 other subjects they will repeat the year anyway.
So do I allow them to pass Technology or Not. After a lot of thinking tonight I decided to give them both a concessionary pass now i have no idea if thats in my remit to do but I have done it anyways.
My reasoning is the following.. 1.. They dont have technology next year. 2.. Technology should not be seen as the axe that is used to crack a nut. 3.. If they have failed other subjects then they have enough pressure on their plates over the next 4 days of Recuperation without studying for a subject they can't take next year.
and finally if they have failed and have to redo the year they will have to redo Technology anyway.
If Technology was available next year I would not have been so lenient. Maybe I am getting soft in my older age! or maybe this year its the right thing to do.
Either way I have passed them and will stand by that decision (of course I am not here next year to see the consequences, but maybe a teacher having a bit of faith in them is all thats needed to have them change their effort next year... naive I know)
Finally the cold is gone.... but the sore throat remains so from cold medication I am now on a freeze spray with a cool mint flavour that turns my throat into a tube! and lozenges that taste like they have been designed to make you suffer while you heal.
Through it all I dont feel ill its just annoying...
More tomorrow...
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