“In seventh grade, my grades started slipping. I noticed I had a lot more freedom, and I stopped doing my homework. But they kept on passing me, even though I wasn’t doing anything. It’s not like it was about my learning, it was about moving us through high school. I hated that.” Page 108
The teachers must have known that the student was not doing homework, not learning, and should not have been passing, and yet-they did. They didn’t offer to give the student extra help, or even ask if something was wrong. To them, this was just one student in the crowd and they just didn’t want to spend that extra time.
This really angers me. Teachers are supposed to teach, and what are they doing? Just letting students slide by without learning. Yes, maybe a student is having a bad day and you can let a homework assignment or two slide by, but you can’t let the actual student slide by the whole year without learning anything. If I was that student, I wouldn’t even bother to show up for school then, if I knew that my teachers didn’t care about me and didn’t want to even bother to help me. This is terrible.
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