19-Year-Old Pre-Law Student Gets E on Latin A-Levels, Sues School (The Times)

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  1. Tom Head

    Tom Head New Member

  2. welshboy

    welshboy New Member

    there was a report about this on the ITN news recently, with her father talking about how the school let him and his daughter down!

    A timely reminder for those looking at the teaching profession too, and the tighter standarads being introduced there.

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  3. me again

    me again Well-Known Member

    All teachers should send a note home with their student's to the parents reading:

    "If you don't believe everything that your child says about me, then I won't believe everything your child says about you."
     
  4. Guest

    Guest Guest

    "If you don't believe everything that your child says about me, then I won't believe everything your child says about you"

    That is too funny -- I actually used to tell parents of my students this very thing during orientation and back-to-school nights. And I always followed up with some of the funny things students had told me in the past about their parents!!!!!!
     
  5. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Ah, but the article says that fewer than 5% of the students at her school failed that Latin exam, and 20% got the top score, which suggests that it may not be the school's fault after all.

    The suit also says "She has studied Latin for thousands of hours and has got nothing to show for it.” My goodness. Even if that is "only" 2,000 hours, that translates to nearly seven hours a day, six days a week, for a year. And still she failed.

    John Bear, who believed, for years,
    that "E Pluribus Unum" meant, as
    I heard Miss Kilcullen in 3rd grade
    say it, "From anyone." (PS: It means
    "From many, one.")
     

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